1.   Ambient noise, atonal piano and archaic synthesizer figures are assimilated into the music with remarkable ease.

2.   As the film proceeds, Haneke increases the presence of ambient street noise.

3.   Adler speculated that Americans in general are less accustomed than Europeans to ambient public noise and therefore more likely to speak unnecessarily loudly into a cell phone.

4.   Circuitry in the headphones samples the ambient noise and generates in each headphone a sound that cancels the background noise.

5.   In another clip, the producer Irving Townsend stops a song to complain about ambient noise, including vibrations from the snare drum.

6.   In fact, the ambient noise of a plane, train or automobile is enough to drown out most of the dialogue.

7.   In all, Hershiser created quiet where a well-trained Mariners crowd had cultivated the art of deafening ambient noise.

8.   Instead, Mrs. Thorpe and the neighbor listened to the ambient noise.

9.   Later in the century, John Cage turned to the mundane sounds found in the natural and built environment, and made compositions out of these ambient noises.

10.   Much more graphic is the sound of this film, whose Foley artists deserve a special commendation for making ambient noise integral yet unintrusive.