When asked what they thought of the criticism that the duo has abandoned the sound that helped define a genre, drummer Jason explained that it was time for Mates of State's sound to head in a new direction.
If these odds sound unpromising, head to Knysna Elephant Park, a pioneering elephant rehabilitation centre, 22km east of Knysna, where you can learn more about the plight of the diminished local population through various activities, including guided walks with the resident nellies.
We hear a distorted voice because the bones in our head affect the sound we hear internally.
My head turned toward the sound, and I felt my brother grow tense beside me, each of us knowing firsthand the junction it had passed through, only him knowing firsthand the one where it was heading.
Sleeping in the headphones on an airplane is a challenge, though they produce odd noises, including a whistling sound, when I leaned my head against certain surfaces, and sleeping on my side was out of the question.
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But Gene Deana, head of the recorded-sound section at the Library of Congress, says he's thrilled to get it.
Adil and his wife, Umm Zainab (who is along for the trip as Adil's temper pacifier and ad-hoc sound girl) -- would head for Makkah, as they were doing the Hajj themselves as pilgrims and wanted to perform their "umrah" in the city before the crowds got in.
First up is Robopanda, a Teddy Ruxpin-like doll for tots four-and-up that sports "many advanced sensors" along with a head-mounted IR sensor and stereo sound.
The technology can make it sound as if a bird is flying around your head in a full circle, not just passing from one side of a room to the other.
When brick-ends started hurtling perilously close to my unprotected head and to those of my cameraman and sound recordist, a police superintendant marched sternly towards us with a warning that his officers could no longer guarantee our safety.
For the sake of the poor peoples of the world, with good reasons and sound historical evidence, we must confront this wave of globaphobia head-on.
In February, Hope Hughes, a stay-at-home mom, was at a playground near her Chicago home with her daughter, then four, when she heard a thunk the sound, she says, of a young boy hitting his head on equipment.
At no point did Maddow shake her head vigorously back and forth, making a WUBBA WUBBA WUBBA sound, or cause steam to issue from her ears, or make her eyeballs shoot straight out of their sockets and hang suspended in space for a moment before retracting as if on elastic bands, any of which would have been a reasonable response.
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He led the effort to destroy the career of Brooksley Born, the Clinton-appointed head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission who had the prescience to sound the alarm in the face of a dangerously spiraling market in suspect mortgage packages.
"I know sound is OK but visual can be better ... because it sticks in your head, " he says.
Now, as a local reporter, what's the issue that you just shake your head when you hear Romney talk about and you say, that does not sound like Governor Mitt Romney?
The flying scenes are big and bombastic, and the sound quality makes you feel as though a small chamber orchestra were sitting on top of your head.
The male displays to attract a female mate by strutting with his tails spread and head held low, while making a rhythmic bubbling call that is interspersed with a sound like a sneeze.
When the sound-effects man sank a knife into a cabbage the listener saw an axe crunching into the victim's head.
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