An article in last week’s New York Times Magazine describes the search for “total” silence in Alaska and other places around the world. The writer, Davyd Betchkal, describes himself as a “sound catcher” and uses a solar powered recording system to measure the sound level in some of the most remote places on earth.

The article outlines Betchkal’s quest for for sound levels below the threshold of human hearing in Denali National Park.

Just like every rock and roll sound man, a key tool in this sound tech’s tool bag-gaffers tape.

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