Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of home
Speaker 1: on Cafi our house whisper, it's Dean Sharp morning, Dean,
Speaker 1: good morning, Amy. Did you notice that the sound just
Speaker 1: went down?
Speaker 2: Yes, I noticed that everything got quieter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So let's talk about sound in your home, because
Speaker 1: you might not think about it much, but just you know,
Speaker 1: there are sound treatments that can make things great or
Speaker 1: not so great in the home.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, noise, noise pollution something that in recent years,
Speaker 2: actually we've come to understand much much better than ever before.
Speaker 2: It used to be noise was just a thing that
Speaker 2: was very subjective, right. Some people love the idea, like
Speaker 2: I love the noise of the city. I don't think
Speaker 2: I could do without it. Other people are like, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I need it nice and quiet. And it used to,
Speaker 2: you know, be sort of a very very subjective thing.
Speaker 2: What noise was to you, noise was to me music,
Speaker 2: and vice versa. But a lot of research has happened
Speaker 2: in the last few years. The American Public Health Association
Speaker 2: has actually decided that they've changed their definition of noise
Speaker 2: to unwanted or harmful sounds because we now know that
Speaker 2: chronic noise, even at low levels, not about volume, just
Speaker 2: about noise can cause stress, sleep disruption, pardiovascular disease, all
Speaker 2: sorts of metabolical disturbances. So it's gotten more important than
Speaker 2: ever when it comes to home construction and home life
Speaker 2: to get the noise quieted down. So Sunday we're taking
Speaker 2: a deep dive. We're going to talk about getting control
Speaker 2: of sound around your house. Some of it is sound proofing,
Speaker 2: some of it is being able to get inside your
Speaker 2: home and not hear all of what's going on outside.
Speaker 2: Other things you can't control quite as much. You may
Speaker 2: be in your backyard and you may be near traffic noises.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about sound masking, which is overlaying
Speaker 2: one sound on top of another and giving you a
Speaker 2: new point of focus so that the noise that's in
Speaker 2: the background doesn't sound like noise anymore and it doesn't
Speaker 2: affect you in the same way. It's really fascinating stuff,
Speaker 2: and it's very helpful no matter where you live.
Speaker 1: So more noise could actually be better.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, here's an example. The sound of
Speaker 2: moving water, okay, of running water in your house. It
Speaker 2: just so happens that moving water shares most frequencies with
Speaker 2: the sound of traffic, right, okay, So if you lay
Speaker 2: over the sound of moving water in your yard and
Speaker 2: there's traffic in the background, and yet now you've got
Speaker 2: a water feature in which your brain actually focuses on ooh,
Speaker 2: I see the water falling right there, and I hear
Speaker 2: all of this sound. The fact of the matter is
Speaker 2: it all computes as moving water. None of it computes
Speaker 2: as traffic in the background. And that is not a
Speaker 2: stressor to the brain. That is a piece of stress
Speaker 2: relieving a sound to the brain.
Speaker 1: So you flew yourself into thinking that you live by a.
Speaker 2: River exactly exactly, and it's exactly one right, And and
Speaker 2: it's that's the difference between pleasant sounds and noise. It
Speaker 2: has to do with what we're conditioned to to understand
Speaker 2: as a stressor versus something that is pleasant and safety giving.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then are there different noises that correlate with
Speaker 1: different sounds, Like you said that there's the traffic with
Speaker 1: the water, is there like something else that you can like, go, oh, well,
Speaker 1: there's birds and that goes with this sound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And birds song is not so much a mask
Speaker 2: as it is something that should be present in order
Speaker 2: for you know, to have your stress levels drop in
Speaker 2: your yard. One of the things that we're going for
Speaker 2: when it comes to a home is not one hundred
Speaker 2: percent sound proofing, because it has turns out that absolute
Speaker 2: silence not the most stress free thing to be in,
Speaker 2: because you and I are inheritors of millions of years
Speaker 2: of adaptation in which when we walk outside or we
Speaker 2: open up a window, we want to hear the sound
Speaker 2: of bird song, because birds are the first things to
Speaker 2: go silent when there's trouble.
Speaker 1: Canary and the coal mine stuff.
Speaker 2: Exactly when there's a fire nearby, if there are predators nearby,
Speaker 2: if there's any kind of danger nearby, the birds get silent.
Speaker 2: And so absolute science as silence, is actually a little unnerving.
Speaker 2: So our real goal is to reduce noise, increase the
Speaker 2: levels of sound that bring us joy, and get control
Speaker 2: of it all, whether we're inside, outside or so on.
Speaker 1: And Deane's going to tell you all about that, and
Speaker 1: as he said, take a deep dive into getting control
Speaker 1: of sound. That's Sunday from nine to noon right here
Speaker 1: on KFI, and then you're also on Tomorrow morning from
Speaker 1: six to eight am, again right here on KFI. It's
Speaker 1: our house whisper Dean Sharp. You can also follow Dean
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Speaker 1: a wonderful day, Dean, thank you too. We thank you.
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