TT: Sounds I like

• Rain dripping from the trees long after the sun comes out

• The sheep in the meadow next to my studio

• Ping-pong games in Colony Hall

• The raucous clang of the dinner bell

• A dog barking in the middle distance, just far away enough for the sound to be swaddled in a haze of echo

• The small, precise, dryly amused voice of one of my fellow colonists

• The quiet clunk that my external hard drive makes as it warms up

• Leontyne Price's recording of Samuel Barber's "St. Ita's Vision," played on tiny travel speakers hooked up to my laptop at a moment of flagging inspiration

• The not-quite-silence of a soft summer afternoon