In regards to the track "Dark Star" by Delerium, which sounds like The Noise back home- The Noise having been explained at one time as a doppler effect of the highway running through the mountains. Why The Noise happened 24/7 in light of dead atmospheric conditions with no vehicles on the road is a matter left to the reader.

19:57 < solios> !!
19:57 < solios> Dude.
19:57 < solios> Delerium : Dark Star.
19:57 < solios> GO.
19:57 < solios> LUBB.
19:57 < solios> OMFG.
19:58 < Xenothaulus> I KEEL YOU!
19:58 < Xenothaulus> Dark Star...
19:58 * Xenothaulus mutters
19:58 < solios> No.
19:58 < solios> No movie samples.
19:58 < solios> It sounds like the Woods.
19:58 < solios> Out Back.
19:58 < Xenothaulus> ...
19:58 < solios> Near There.
19:58 * Xenothaulus mutters and GIBBERS
19:59 < solios> Dude.
19:59 < solios> It's LOC with a dash of Nosgoth.

20:16 < Xenothaulus> My computer should get some kind of award for being such an
assnugget
20:16 * solios falls over.
20:16 < Xenothaulus> I told it to play ... er... uh...
20:16 < Xenothaulus> okay dude
20:16 < Xenothaulus> NO
20:16 * Xenothaulus turns it off.
20:16 < solios> ....
20:16 < solios> what?
20:16 < Xenothaulus> Dude, that's the worst thing I've ever heard.
20:16 < solios> skip 2 minutes in.
20:17 < Xenothaulus> You fucking sick piece of shit bastard.
20:17 < Xenothaulus> No
20:17 < Xenothaulus> You don't understand.
20:17 < solios> ...
20:17 < solios> WHAT?!
20:17 < Xenothaulus> Allow me to continue my story.
20:17 < Xenothaulus> I told the HAL to play Dark Star.
20:17 < solios> k
20:17 < Xenothaulus> He promptly replied with "There is no disk in drive a:\"
20:17 < solios> Sweet.
20:18 < Xenothaulus> So I was laughing my ass off and proceeded to type to you about it
20:18 < Xenothaulus> Then it went ahead and played anyway
20:18 < solios> so what's wrong with that?
20:18 < Xenothaulus> ...
20:18 < Xenothaulus> I honestly think it triggered some kind of flashback or something.

Naturally, it's suggested anyone with a taste for ambient music who wants a well-produced facsimile of The Noise should track down the song. The album is "Faces, Forms and Illusions", which is altogether too fitting.

More on The Noise some other time. Maybe along with The Lights. And The Smell.