Silence zone

A lot of construction work is going on in the campus. But the stage of pressure piling was over a long time ago for all the ongoing projects. The rhythmic ear-drum-shattering noise suggested pressure piling which had no business being in the campus. After some time the screaming started. It sounded just like the sounds in the labor ward, where women labored in natural childbirth process. The timbre was a little deeper and the words were not clear. But the overall effect was similar. I could not understand how the sounds from the labor ward could be heard a block away as clearly as if they were coming from the next room. Then suddenly the sounds stopped, and someone announced “thank you. That was XXXXX singing for you. Now let us hear YYYYY, with ZZZZZ on the drums and QQQQQ on guitar.” “What is with all this noise?” I asked the clerk in our office. “It is the annual function of the students” she answered. So it was a talent show or a competition of some sort. “Can you make out the words of the singer?” I asked. “No” she smiled. “I thought you young people would know what they were singing” I said. “I wish they knew it was a silence zone, this being a hospital.” “The silence zone is around the hospital, not inside it” a professor volunteered. Well, in that case all that noise must be OK.