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Environment: Auditory Machine

Description

The specific instance where this is used is in The Hamlet to refer to the sound of a cotton gin, but can be used to describe any sounds of industrialization.

Parent Term

  • Auditory

Sibling Terms

  • Airplane sound
  • Barking
  • Bees
  • Bells
  • Birdsong
  • Boat
  • Breathing
  • Bugle
  • Carpentry
  • Cars passing
  • Car|truck movement
  • Clock chiming
  • Clock ticking
  • Combat sounds
  • Confused din
  • Dog barking
  • Echoing
  • Engine
  • Footsteps
  • Frogs
  • Gallop
  • Haunting
  • Heartbeat
  • Hoofbeats
  • Howling
  • Hunting horn
  • Industry
  • Insect sounds
  • Moving wagon
  • Murmur
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Owls
  • Postal horn
  • Quietness
  • Rain on roof
  • Rodent sounds
  • Running sound
  • Sawing
  • Shots
  • Silence
  • Siren
  • Sound of drums
  • Streetcar sound
  • Train sound
  • Tree / leaves
  • Unseen voice
  • Voices
  • Water
  • Whistle

Tagged Events

The Hamlet, 177 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Machine | Time of Year›September | Weather›Heat
Actions: Agricultural›Ginning cotton
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition | Time›Routine
The Hamlet, 66 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Machine
Actions: Agricultural›Ginning cotton | Interaction, Social›Spectate
Cultural Issues: Technology›Cotton gin