Well I am going to try and give you a few sounds of Korea. Right now it is Friday night and I worn out but, although some of you already know I am crazy, I wanted to make sure that you realized that not everything I hear is in my imagination. With that in mind here are a couple of clips for you of some of my "run-ins" with sound. I have no idea if you will be able to run them or not.
The first is "The Wall Lady" many of you see my posts on facebook about her. She comes on from time to time to give building wide announcements. The only words I can usually understand at this point are Hello and Thank You. NO clue what else is being said and she has information for me at various times of the day and night. I never know when she will join me in the apartment and usually she starts out with some nice music but tonight she must have been a little busy.
The next is the "hissing" sound of the cicadas in the trees outside. This sound is all over town. The young children are often out in the evening with butterfly type nets catching them. The sound can come up in waves and can surround and overwhelm you at times. It is one of the sounds I now associate with Korea. There really is nothing else quite like it. If this works I will add more audio commentary from time to time. Happy listening!
(I hope)
The cicadas remind me of a 30 member percussion section standing in the back of the room playing ratchets! Yikes! The lady sounds nice, though. Maybe she's giving the party details for the weekend? The unanticipated voice from the wall through out the day would freak me out, too. I imagine you're getting used to it? I just hope they don't change voices on you...
ReplyDeleteI just wish I could do the sound justice it is SO loud sometimes and. I get used to the lady sometimes but she came on a couple of hours ago again. It is just weird! I hope she is more animated if there is an emergency. I guess at one of the other apartment complexes it is a man's voice. That could be fun, but you are right. They shouldn't change it up on me or that would creep me out!
ReplyDeleteThe cicadas are creepy. It sounds like there are millions of them.
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