Harmony in the Age of Noise

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Rank the following factors from 1 to 10

Mess-up factor: [? 1: Your eyes and ears are having the same experience 10: They are very different. For instance, at an art bridge in Minneapolis my eyes are supposed to register beauty, but my ears are responding to the 12 lanes of 70 mph traffic just below my feet; this would be a mess-up of 10. [hide popup] ]
Reverb time: [? 1: Dry, like in a field of wheat 10: As if in an oil tanker [hide popup] ]
Size of space: [? 1: your head in the dryer 10: the Grand Canyon [hide popup] ]
Cherub factor: [? 1: no diffusing architectural details, straight glass walls, nowhere to hide, all harsh reflections 10: Baroque library with statues, books, cherubs, and no two parallel walls, where the sound is broken up into soft reflections [hide popup] ]
Intelligibility: [? 1: can understand speech perfectly, even at distance 10: difficulty understanding speech because of strange echoes, background noise, etc. [hide popup] ]
Noise floor: [? This refers to the sum of the background noise. 1: a desert on a windless day 10: a boiler factory or a rave [hide popup] ]
Hearing sphere: [? This refers to the size of your sphere of hearing (how far can you hear). 1: inches -- 10: miles [hide popup] ]
Relative loudness: [? 1: super quiet environment; what you are recording is also quiet. 10: super loud environment; the interest of your recording is also loud. [hide popup] ]
Masking: [? 1: Nothing covers up the sounds of interest. 10: All the sounds are buried in other sounds, such as highways, jet traffic, or ventilation. [hide popup] ]

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