For Christina/Jill.
List of Sounds:
- the flowing, trickling, rippling, and cascading of the courtyard fountain, central in placement and importance, representing both symbolically and practically what it means to "come home": refreshment, sustenance, purification, welcoming oasis
- the commingled birdsong of wild finches, sparrows, and larks with the delicate trilling of domestic canaries, held under eaves and arcades in small, bent-wood cages to be, for both family and guest, a vivid, canorous delight
- the sporadic passing-by of goats and sheep, known not just by their calls but by the charmingly random melody of their bells; the shuffling of much-laden donkeys carrying saddlebags or wagons
- vendors pushing handcarts through the streets and calling out their wares, their utilitarian insistence decorated still with the subtle ornamentation of almost-song
- from the Christian quarter, the chiming of church-bells on the hour
- the adhan (Muslim call to prayer) resonating from the minaret of the nearest mosque, summoning the faithful to their Zuhr (midday) and Asr (afternoon) prayers
- footsteps through colonnaded wooden walkways and over marble tile, timber and stone both buffed to luster with the tread of successive generations
- women chatting and laughing through the mirth-lightened chores of washing clothing, rinsing vegetables, and scrubbing courtyard tiles, domestic life centered thus around the fountain, ceaselessly drawn from and ceaselessly replenished
- children giggling, playing, reveling in warm sun and spirited splashes of cool water
- occasionally, briefly, the strumming of an oud, woken into voice for practice or contemplation rather than the entertaining of a crowd, its quiet, lilting air just-barely heard drifting through the open latticework of a window to the courtyard below
- the rapping of a traditional Aleppan door-knocker (a small, pendulous hand) that both announces and warns of a visitor, allowing women the necessary moment to cover their heads
- the intermittent bubble and gurgle of a water-pipe, smoked contentedly from a shady corner of the courtyard by the young man of the house and his circle of friends, a coterie gathered today for the leisurely playing of backgammon
- the gentle click of dice and stone discs against a hand-hewn, hand-painted, much-loved backgammon board
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Question: What is an ambience video?
Answer: Pleasant, soothing background images & sound for relaxation, study, play, or work; gently occupies an anxious or unfocused mind without causing unwanted distraction; creates a comfortable, inviting atmosphere; personalizes sparse, colorless, or impersonal environments; enlivens spaces where we live or work alone; fills silence with more subtlety, ease, and warmth than music or TV; offers softly dynamic "rainbow noise" instead of monotonous white noise; enhances interior design & personal style by turning screens/screensavers into live photographic displays.
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