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Would you buy 'the sound of silence' CD?

  • 19-10-2012 2:00pm
    #1
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭


    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/st-peter-s-church-records-cd-of--the-sound-of-silence-.html
    A church desperate to raise funds has recorded 'the sound of silence' on to a CD which has become a surprise hit with its congregation.

    Members of St Peter's Church in East Blatchington, Sussex, recorded 'a little bit of the silence' of the building's atmosphere.

    The unusual audio has been a surprise hit with churchgoers, with St Peter's selling their first copies at an open day and taking more orders since.

    The recording of St Peter's atmosphere features the ambient sound of footsteps, voices, background traffic noise - but mostly nothing at all.

    Some people will buy anything :pac:


Comments

  • #2
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    Ssshhhhhhh!!!


  • #3
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,443 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Is this Sound of Silence a cover of Simon and Garfunkel or is it supposed to be a new song with the same name?


  • #4
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    You probably would if it helped to raise funds for the church, but listen to it? Nah.


  • #5
    Internet Hero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 373 ✭✭Internet Hero


    i would buy it. i like to relax in silence


  • #6
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    I can hear footsteps and traffic now. I must already have it.


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  • #7
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    *cough*


  • #8
    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i have heard of people buying stupid things but this takes the biscuit.


  • #9
    Gee Bag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    The Sound of Silence-

    I'd be happy to buy it if was recorded in a car boot, by a recently bludgeoned Jedward, just before they were pushed over a cliff to a watery grave.


  • #10
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Hello darkness my old friend,
    Where the fúck did I put my pen.....


  • #11
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    The Church is plagiarising John Cage.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4'33"


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  • #12
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,364 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    I'm waiting for the one featuring the whimpering of children.


  • #13
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    i keep imagining turning this on while driving, i might buy it just to freak out anybody i give a lift to...

    shush! i love this part :D


  • #14
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBeDSSxsyU


    :cool:


  • #15
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    They're ripping off John Cage.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3


  • #16
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    minidazzler wrote: »
    They're ripping off John Cage.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3

    Was just about to look that up myself.

    I hope the publishing company finds out and it and gets their big fat royalty cheque. :D


  • #17
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    I was expecting Simon & Garfunkel. I am disappoint


  • #18
    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    minidazzler wrote: »
    They're ripping off Johnny Cage.

    http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/12/129184/2504062-15859353_424498271251007817.jpg

    FYP


  • #19
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I wonder do the people bow and pray to it.


  • #20
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    give me waves and whales any day over this :P


  • #21
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    24 hours of ambient noise from Star trek.

    Cure for insomnia.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPoqNeR3_UA


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  • #22
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,033 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Ah, but there's a method to their madness. What they're selling is not strictly silence, it's Ambience.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #23
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    bnt wrote: »
    What they're selling is not strictly silence, it's "room tone" a.k.a. Presence.

    i want my money back :mad:


  • #24
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    bnt wrote: »
    Ah, but there's a method to their madness. What they're selling is not strictly silence, it's Ambience.

    Merely a local recital. ;)


  • #25
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    Meh. More a fan of rain myself.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwB2ddPUVA


  • #26
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,908 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    I much prefer the sounds of science
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkmeP8s8W4


  • #27
    omega man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,937 ✭✭✭omega man


    What next..............perhaps a water to wine home kit containing a bottle of water and a bible :rolleyes:


  • #28
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    omega man wrote: »
    What next..............perhaps a water to wine home kit containing a bottle of water and a bible :rolleyes:
    well
    You could start by making holy water. You just boil the hell out of it :pac:


  • #29
    Casillas
    Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭Casillas


    davet82 wrote: »
    i keep imagining turning this on while driving, i might buy it just to freak out anybody i give a lift to...

    shush! i love this part :D

    I'd a friend who did that to me, only it was a recording of a round of the rosary - I did not know what was happening..


  • #30
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    It's not a proper representation of mass if there's no coughing. It should be dead silent for ages until one person coughs, followed by about fifteen other people who have wanted to cough for ages but have been too embarrassed to.


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  • #31
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Let's hope no one farted during the recording...


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