The Quietest Room in the World

The Quietest Room in the World



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5 Responses:

  1. xrayspx says:

    Herb Pilhofer, one of the founders of Studio 80, which became the Orfield quiet room, did a pretty fun double CD with Thes One from People Under The Stairs of remixes from commercial recordings Pilhofer made for various clients. Even though they're mostly just clips, I still never kick them out of iTunes DJ. It's a good example of quality hip hop artists showing genuine respect and taking the old and twisting it up. Even just the nostalgia of jingles for Pan Am and 3M and stuff is fun to hear.

  2. Mike says:

    I want to host a screening of Altered States in this room.

  3. Edouard says:

    Oh yeah - anechoic chambers with the lights off... Must do that again.

    The cool thing (uh, the other cool thing) was there was some test equipment in the room - just a power strip and a metal stand - but you could click your fingers and actually hear the echo from that as that was the only thing in the room that could make an echo. And it was a directional sound, so you could hear the objects position in space with your eyes closed (we turned the lights off later).

  4. Neil Kandalgaonkar says:


    -- Wikipedia article on 4'33"

    This became the inspiration for the infamous 4'33" of silence. The piece isn't supposed to be a joke, the point is that there is no such thing as silence.

  5. Sheilagh says:

    I wonder what a strongly-purring cat (along with a human to hear said cat) would be like in such a room!

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