The music is finally drifting out. We have one song up which is a rough mix of Connections, and we hope to add more rough mixes soon. There are more songs on the way!
Sound Houses was born on May 8, 2008 to symbolize the start of a new recording project for the band formerly known as The New Sound of Numbers. Also, the name change seems appropriate in recognizing the change of drummers from Kathryn Refi to Charlie Johnston.
The name Sound Houses is inspired by a piece of writing by Francis Bacon (the writer not the painter).---
"We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have, together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep; likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp; we make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly. We have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing it: and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller, and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances.." — Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis (1624)
