English poet and novelist Thomas Hardy once said, “A man’s
silence is wonderful to listen to”. This could be taken as a motto of my essay,
as in two of my recordings made for the first assignment I listened to the
silence. Both times it turned out not to be as silent as I imagined. Moreover,
in each of the recordings it is very different. It appeared that my ear very
often does not pay attention to many of the surrounding sounds. The first recording I made at home – in a small and closed
space. When I was making it, I thought that there would be just nothing, but it
appeared that though it was quite in the room, there were also other sounds –
steps, mouse scrolling or car passing near the window. The conclusion that can
be drawn is that the thing we usually assume as silence actually is not so
silent.
