Why does the village broadcast loud music followed by what sounds like sales at the outdoor market. Reminds

me what concentration camps sound like.  Very loud big speakers on poles throughout village ..2 next door to us..

 

 

How long have you lived here?

I'm surprised that anyone knows the 'sound of concentration camps'

Wannabe DJ loves making a noise. The louder and more distorted the better.

How they find things to waffle about every day in a small village is beyond me.

Try asking the locals what he is waffling about. Most of them won't have a clue as they don't listen.

Unless there is something free on offer of course.

3 minutes ago, fishtank said:

Wannabe DJ loves making a noise. The louder and more distorted the better.

How they find things to waffle about every day in a small village is beyond me.

Try asking the locals what he is waffling about. Most of them won't have a clue as they don't listen.

Unless there is something free on offer of course.

They have it in areas of Chiang Mai also, surprised me for such an urban environment.........It is a bit 'hi de hi' a  British holiday camp sitcom back in the day!!

If this is just going on for a few days and you're hearing numbers repeated like sales at a market it sounds like donation time for the local Wat. Family names are announced and then what they've donated usually money but sometimes rice or other stuff.

sort of like asking - who put the ram in the ram a lam a ding dong

 

its part of the song of village life in Thailand

9 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

sort of like asking - who put the ram in the ram a lam a ding dong

Christ knows, but a very apt analogy.....................

you come Thailand ... embrace culture!!  now complain???

 

i like night music same bass......five hours, very loud.... boom, boom, boom....

 

they are drinking and having fun, why be upset?

 

you want quiet?  in home country it expensive but very quiet

 

so i say i want not same, not same....  boom, boom, boom.. not same

 

100000000000000 dogs even better not same

 

roosters the best.  and cats.  and everything

4 minutes ago, bojo said:

Christ knows, but a very apt analogy.....................

apt analogies are a Western thing.. loud noise is a Thai thing... 

 

I am Western but can adjust.. acceptance. 

 

"silence like a cancer grow" - Paul Simon

6am yes.  Time to wake up dance and enjoy your life here!

NOT every village. Our <deleted> yai forbids loudspeakers after 9pm or before 5am, weddings and funerals included. I don't like her much but if I could vote for her I would.

The neighbouring Moo ban gives out lottery ticket winning numbers, reads out the latest communications from the Ampoe, occasionally warns about cattle rustling, Covid, dengue etc or the like.

The only (threat to life) solution is to wait until the guys have in fact gone to bed and then start up your own DJ broadcast. Not a thing I'd do myself.

Generally speaking, the 6 am speakers will be broadcasting the provincial radio channel. 

 

You will get some music and some speaking.

 

As mentioned before, if it is just for a few days it is likely the PuYaiBaan making an announcement about a local or village ceremony that is happening soon.

 

Why not learn to speak Thai? You may learn something.

Read the title and just laughed.......move out of our Thai village in Isan because of the constant, deafening noise, five day weddings, five day funerals, temple loudspeaker, Village boss loudspeaker, packs of dogs up to 20 strong........... we not now live in the serenely quiet, centre of Bangkok.

Could it be part of the current local elections, if so will be over soon. 

11 hours ago, bojo said:

I'm surprised that anyone knows the 'sound of concentration camps'

Why sure

I remember the swanky outdoor markets at the concentration camps fondly 

Geed times! good times. 

The Phu Yai has to make sure everyone is up for work in the fields, to go to the Wat, or get the kids up and ready for school.  He then makes announcements.  Buy yourself some earplugs, sound proof your bedroom, or just roll with it and go out, grab a cup of coffee, and start your day.  Most times the village is blacked out and all asleep by 8 or 9 pm, except for the village idiots, the skulking thieves, and the kids who go out on their motorbikes and go drinking and terrorizing the neighborhood.  Did I leave anything out?  Oh yeah the occasional party and the Mor Lam music and Karaoke singing. 

8 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

The Phu Yai has to make sure everyone is up for work in the fields, to go to the Wat, or get the kids up and ready for school.  He then makes announcements.  Buy yourself some earplugs, sound proof your bedroom, or just roll with it and go out, grab a cup of coffee, and start your day.  Most times the village is blacked out and all asleep by 8 or 9 pm, except for the village idiots, the skulking thieves, and the kids who go out on their motorbikes and go drinking and terrorizing the neighborhood.  Did I leave anything out?  Oh yeah the occasional party and the Mor Lam music and Karaoke singing. 

Late nighters? Don't forget the arsonists in the forests and hills.

5 minutes ago, Thailand said:

Late nighters? Don't forget the arsonists in the forests and hills.

Yes the illegal loggers cutting trees for wood to build with, and the sugar cane field harvesters and burners.  The late night field hunters killing all manner of animal.  One always wonders why they never see any wildlife or hear birds in the villages.  Alas I did forget about waking up to find my pool constantly covered in ash.

Around here they use those speakers to blast out the lottery numbers.

0600  you are a very lucky person. 

40 minutes ago, ripstanley said:

0600  you are a very lucky person. 

Damn you were faster ????

 

For years there was the head of village health volunteers who started his morning fanfare (same "Thai rap" day after day) as early as 5:10h. Followed by important information like what day/date/time it is, time to get up, do morning hygiene, healthy breakfast and clean teeth.

Even my wife found him ridiculous.

The village headmen of the three villages around have varying routines/schedules and sound levels depending on distance. Sometimes two at a time.

Additional there is twice weekly a market with barking from the speakers.

The enormous noise by some family events (marriage, death, monk novice) is incalculable.

Sometimes silent for weeks and then every other day.

Should I mention the deafening noise by loudspeaker trucks driving around for the last two weeks or so promoting candidates for the mayor election ????

 

 

 

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

Damn you were faster ????

 

For years there was the head of village health volunteers who started his morning fanfare (same "Thai rap" day after day) as early as 5:10h. Followed by important information like what day/date/time it is, time to get up, do morning hygiene, healthy breakfast and clean teeth.

Even my wife found him ridiculous.

The village headmen of the three villages around have varying routines/schedules and sound levels depending on distance. Sometimes two at a time.

Additional there is twice weekly a market with barking from the speakers.

The enormous noise by some family events (marriage, death, monk novice) is incalculable.

Sometimes silent for weeks and then every other day.

Should I mention the deafening noise by loudspeaker trucks driving around for the last two weeks or so promoting candidates for the mayor election ????

 

 

 

Don't forget the banging and grinding all day long.

Why cut tiles quietly when you can use the noisy method.

Thais do love their noise.

They would be lost without it.

OP, why does it happen?  It happens, as with many things here, because you are living in a society of socially immature people, with the attitudes and social/emotional empathy and intelligence of a population of teenagers. Sometimes its endearing, often it's irritating, but It is what it is. 

 

I used to live in the center of Zurich, having a very expensive city center penthouse pad.

Some idiot below me started playing music very loud late at night / early in the morning.
After a few times warning him, a couple of times grabbing him by the throat & then a few times throwing him against walls. I realised he was just too stoned to do anything with.

During the day he was fine - post 11 p.m. 3/4 days a week on another planet due to drugs.

 

In the end I just called the police and let them in to deal with him, a month later he was out 

20 hours ago, Thailand said:

How long have you lived here?

5+ years

Lived here 5 years (6 months in the main village while house was being built). It’s a daily thing again ...  Our dogs howl to the music generally one song.. then talk about open market 

and occasionally families that donated whatever.. 

 

didnt hear it fir a long time.. now the put up new speakers..

 

the music part is ok.. it’s the talking that runs longer.. 

 

anyway just curious..

16 hours ago, Pilotman said:

OP, why does it happen?  It happens, as with many things here, because you are living in a society of socially immature people, with the attitudes and social/emotional empathy and intelligence of a population of teenagers. Sometimes its endearing, often it's irritating, but It is what it is. 

You'd better move before they drag you down to their level.

 

Whoops!. Too late.

17 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Damn you were faster ????

 

For years there was the head of village health volunteers who started his morning fanfare (same "Thai rap" day after day) as early as 5:10h. Followed by important information like what day/date/time it is, time to get up, do morning hygiene, healthy breakfast and clean teeth.

Even my wife found him ridiculous.

The village headmen of the three villages around have varying routines/schedules and sound levels depending on distance. Sometimes two at a time.

Additional there is twice weekly a market with barking from the speakers.

The enormous noise by some family events (marriage, death, monk novice) is incalculable.

Sometimes silent for weeks and then every other day.

Should I mention the deafening noise by loudspeaker trucks driving around for the last two weeks or so promoting candidates for the mayor election ????

 

Thankfully the elections are over, it was overkill with up to 7 different loudspeaker vans touring the area. When they handed out the cash on Saturday night, it was done so,so quietly by comparison. As a rule, our village loudspeakers are at 12pm and 4pm daily, only occasionally do we get an 0600hrs broadcast. But it is seriously loud when it happens. Funerals around here are 7 days long. Some days, there is almost complete silence, with locals staying housebound, very peculiar the differences.

 

 

Noone above has mentioned the obvious reason for loudspeakers & announcements in the villages of Thailand: Most of the population are illiterate or at best semi-literate so putting leaflets in letterboxes (as would happen in The West) would be a complete waste of effort, and just another source of rubbish.

 

That applies equally to provincial government or local government announcements and to commercial advertizing.

 

The obvious solution is known to healthy people everywhere in the world: Go to bed earlier, get up earlier.

 

Personally here, outside Prasat in south Surin, I actually enjoy the romantic Isaan songs they play at 0600: My heart is broken I cannot breathe My tears will drown me if you leave me ... Puts me in a good mood for the gym.