November 17, 2000

Art That Pricks Up Your Ears

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER



Stop a moment. Listen.

What do you hear? Traffic? Crows? A fan? A computer printer? A laugh track?

And what do the sounds tell you? That it's raining outside? That someone's walking down the hall?

Sound is easy to take for granted. Your brain unconsciously registers thousands of noises every day -- the clicks of doors closing behind you,

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