Gr, Argh! Finish the damn work, already!!

[capri0mni]

Somewhere around here, in a place nearby, but a direction I cannot pinpoint, workers have been chain-sawing trees* since about 10 this morning six hours ago). I can't officially complain, to tell them to shut up, because they're not violating any noise-time restrictions.

But -- DAMN! It's getting on my nerves, and I can't concentrate on my writing, and I'm still trying to finish working on my outline / Treatment for my Script Frenzy graphic novel script**

The sound is not overly loud, but it's unrelenting. And it's got this pitch and resonance, that if a symphony composer put it into his latest opus, it would immediately tell the audience that:

"This is the part of the musical story where something really bad is about to happen."

-- all minor chords, with some discordant overtones. And there's no place I can go in the house to get away from the sound.

And it's put me in a really bad mood.

...

Ah! They've stopped. ...it's after 4:00. Maybe they're heading back to the office to fill out their work reports so they can head home at 5:00.

*crosses fingers*

(nope. they've started again)

*decides to take a Tylenol for her headache.*

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*(as best as I can figure)

**(Yes, I finally decided on that as my format. If it turns out well, and I'd like to see it as a completed project, it would be easier to find a single artist to work with, than find a cast of dozens for a stage or radio play, or a cast of several dozens and a production crew for a feature-length film)

Comments

[spiralsheep]

White noise can help block out other sounds (y'know how boiling a kettle or flushing a toilet seems to drown out other sounds even though it's not loud). Whether that's useful information or not is another matter. One of my city dwelling friends used to have a white noise tape to play when the city noises were too much for her and she said it worked. I dunno though. It sounded as if she was trading one noise for another to me.

Good luck with the writing.

[capri0mni]

Well, it might help me. The thing is, I am very sound-mood sensitive; my emotions / adrenalin are easily triggered by sound. I can't even go to sleep to music, like many, 'cause it makes my mind race as I interpret the sounds -- I'm much better falling asleep to the sound of voices, as long as they have a pleasant tone.

The thing about white noise is that it's like white light: all the frequencies of the audible range mixed up together, so no one tone - chord predominates. I might try that.

I also just bought a custom jester hat from chronographia. It will have silver belly-dancing bells.

I might make it my Thinking Cap, since that kind of silver chiming sound has oft been used to aid meditation. :-)

[spiralsheep]

If you have an old fashioned telly or dial radio then tuning between stations and turning the volume down so it's barely audible might work but googling "white noise" might bring some better/more useful solutions.

Eeeeee to your hat! I shall enjoy, no doubt, seeing photos from one or both of you eventually.

[capri0mni]

There are pictures of it on her f'lickr page. There was a glitch between our emails, and she couldn't embed the pics privately, so she posted them publicly, so I could approve them.

I'm rather squeeful myself. I've wanted a jester hat since I was ten. But I could never quite warm to the garrishly colored ones that were sold at ren faires...

[spiralsheep]

Ooo... fab hat! Love the curly horns! And the colours, obv. I'm still in love with the hexahat c made me. May you have as much joy from yours as I've had from mine. :-)

[capri0mni]

The colors were mostly my idea -- based on the massive longleaf pine just outside my kitchen window (of which, I can only see the trunk) -- though she helped figure out the mix that would work best.

The curly horns were her idea, last minute. And I love them, too. :-)