How basic life would have felt and being, if all was quiet and solemn? Would we have felt that impact in anyway? Smiles.. I guess I'm thinking too hard because if we didn't know the existence of sound, we would have been just fine. What you don't know and never heard before cannot ruin your happy hour.
Luckily, we have sound and we know sound, and that makes life more colorful so long as it is pleasant to the ears.
Let me touch on music for example, there is music for every occasion,for every mood and for everyone. When I am overly joyed, I have songs for it, when I need to be motivated, i play my action songs and soft music for lazy times.
Well, in all the sweetness we get from some sound-based melodies,there is the opposite side where a sound can become noise.
If it isn't pleasant to meet your personal taste, it sure is a ticket to becoming a nuisance to your ears.
Ever stayed close by a place that is waterlogged, has trees and bushes around?Let me enlighten you a bit, during evenings when it's finally dark, most night animals come out and the cry of some really gets on my nerves.
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Frogs are number one that list. Frogs croaking in the night irritates me the most. "croac! croac!! croac!!! croac!!!!" is all I hear.
A little reading I did tells that frogs have variety of sound that depends on their intent and even their breeds. They trill, chirp, scream, peep, cluck and croak. That's quite fascinating to know, truth be told.
They can use sound to attract mates, to defend their territory or fend off predators.
The sack under their mouth is what helps them to amplify thier sound.
I do not want to be a 'frogie' expert but wanting to understand thier cries probed me to do a little reading on them and I chanced on some interesting facts. BUT,
I still do not like the croac croac sound frogs make.
Crickets make number two on the list, their sound irritates me. They are mostly nocturnal and come out in the night, chirping.
Fascinatingly, it's only the male crickets that chirps!. Male crickets are more like the love experts in the world of insects. They have a calling song which they cry to call for female cricket. They also have have a warning chirp that's more or less tells other males to back off( from their females).
Intriguingly, they even have assurance songs for their females, as if to say, " hey buttercakes, I am the very one for you and I got your back". (Laughs)
As the male crickets try to impress the female crickets, they go all out and make a lot of sounds. The very sound they use to win points, unfortunately irritates my ears and I dislike it.
If only I could talk to them the next time I hear them; I'd tell cricket-lover-boys to take their wooing strategies elsewhere, thier sound becomes a noise to my ears.