From In Search of Lost Soundscapes
Does sound become more positive as time allows it to dissipate? It's value becomes cemented in the present. "Proust complicitously writes to Madame Williams, once these workers are gone after having become part of his routine noises, he would feel the ensuing silence as abnormal and would regret their ruckus as some sort of “lullaby” (ibid., 39)."
The Pembroke Factories are closed. Would those sounds, like Nana said, be ubiquitous or would they be an annoyance? I think the experience would be multifaceted, as phenomenology shows us.
I wrote in my GitBook that ubiquity does not necessarily entail a passive value. Sound itself is not as unimportant compared to the other senses for us. There is not enough evidence in our understanding of society to say that sound is underprivileged, at least to the extent historians have been lead to think.
Series calls sound a parasite... "noises are operators of irreversible time, the same lost time Proust laments, the time of nostalgia, entropy, and death."
"In general, noises both separate and connect Marcel’s subjectivity to what he calls “la vie extérieure.” Even a banal hissing of a pipe has a value in constructing and deconstructing memory in the text."
Pembroke factories viewed by FB group as sounding good. Imagine what it would be like living there... can you... with all of these noises? Can you construct and deconstruct a memory you never had? Can I?