Evanston, on a supposedly quiet Monday morning, is noisier than you might think. “OK, what’s that guy so angry about?” Fred Armisen asked as a garbage truck barreled down Sherman Avenue. A moment later it was replaced by a Supreme Lobster truck, which didn’t honk or cry or creak or rumble but just kinda chugga-chugga-chugged alongside him, waiting at a red light.

Armisen looked at the truck, and looked at me, stopped talking and waited a beat.

Every sound registered, getting a slight eyebrow raise here, a slow head pivot there.

Armisen, who is best known for his 11 seasons on “Saturday Night Live” and eight seasons of “Portlandia,” and now two seasons as Uncle Fester on “Wednesday,” is a sound guy at heart, in countless ways. You can hear the sound of his singular voice in your head

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