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Quietest Room On Earth Causes Hallucinations
(Credit: Orfield Laboratories)
If you’re looking for a serious challenge, I recommend heading to the Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis, Minnesota where they have an anechoic chamber, a room that cancels out 99.99% of all outside sound. So what’s so special about this room? Well, for one thing, NASA uses it to accustom astronauts to the silence of space. But what they found out was that when there is an absence of sound, the human ear needs to find something to listen to.
You see, we are so used to hearing things, from the birds singing to traffic to music to the weather, that if we don’t hear anything, our ears will strain to hear whatever it can. This includes our breathing, the skin on our fingers rubbing together when we move our hands, and our heartbeat. As time progresses, people then begin to actually hallucinate.
According to scientists at the facility, nobody has ever made it past 45 minutes in the room without needing to exit and hear sound again.
Personally, I would LOVE to go to one of these rooms and see how long I could last. What about you? Think you could make it longer than 45 minutes?
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It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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