{"id":7043319,"date":"2026-08-21T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/ambient-music\/pickleball-audiobook-soundwalk-disquiet\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:59:00","slug":"pickleball-audiobook-soundwalk-disquiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7043319","title":{"rendered":"Pickleball, Audiobook, Soundwalk \u2013 Disquiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>From the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thisweekinsound.disquiet.com\/p\/record-your-voice-just-35\">August 19, 2026, issue<\/a>\u00a0of my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thisweekinsound.disquiet.com\/\">This Week in Sound<\/a>\u00a0email newsletter:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25b0 In a Pickle<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>I can hear what\u2019s happening behind that fence long before I see it: the pops, plinks, thwacks and smacks of pickleball matches. Players say the sound is joyous. Neighbors say it\u2019s dreadful.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Bishop Sand<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/interactive\/2025\/why-pickleball-noise-is-annoying\/\">Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0writing about why pickleball noise is so annoying.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25b0 Novel Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>We recorded underwater sounds, winds, volcanic eruptions, rainstorms, church bells, fish markets, and other sounds in Sicily and the Aeolians. The idea is that those sounds accompany and thread through the narrative like a kind of chorus made not from human voices but from the elements. My hope with the sonic book is simply that reader-listeners can fully immerse and feel anchored in time and space through sound.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Valeria Luiselli<\/strong>\u00a0interviewed by\u00a0<strong>Scott Heller<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/23\/books\/review\/valeria-luiselli-beginning-middle-end.html\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0about the work that went into the audiobook version of her novel\u00a0<em>Beginning Middle End<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25b0 Walk-a-Thon<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Sound carries faster through water than through air, and soon we heard a plink-plink-plinking. It was followed by what sounded like bacon sizzling in a frying pan, which turned out to be a bubbly photosynthesizing elixir of microbes, decaying muck and insect larvae. Then there was a clicking \u2014 possibly aquatic snails, Smolicki said \u2014 and the quiet pops of fish mouths opening and closing, a miraculous sound that this lapsed fly fisherman thought she would never hear. Somewhere in the humid thickets a bullfrog croaked.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That is\u00a0<strong>Patricia Leigh Brown<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/05\/arts\/design\/soundwalk-jacek-smolicki-central-park.html\">New York Times<\/a>, tagging along on a soundwalk with artist\u00a0<strong>Jacek Smolicki<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Credit Due:<\/strong>\u00a0Thanks, Mike Rhode (pickleball).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0August 19, 2026, issue\u00a0of my\u00a0This Week in Sound\u00a0email newsletter: \u25b0 In a Pickle I can hear what\u2019s happening behind that fence long before I see it: the pops, plinks, thwacks and smacks of pickleball matches. 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