MILWAUKEE — Sounds are all around us. From bagging groceries to friends laughing to birds chirping in trees. But how much do we really notice these things? For many, the sounds probably just go in one ear and out the other. However, one 17-year-old from St. Francis is paying close attention to the noises around her.

“I’ve been wanting to listen to this for a long time," Ella Coonen said before crossing a big experience off her list.

She wanted to hear the bells of The Basilica of St. Josaphat in Milwaukee. Not from far away but up close. So she climbed up to the top of the bell tower and heard the sound she was waiting for.

"It’s like the sound is a circle," Coonen said.

The way she experiences sound and can describe it is with visual cues. That's why she characterized the bells as the

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