Wednesday, July 30, 2008

June & July 2008 Compiled


We posted 16 sounds these past two months. I figured it was time for some compilations, so I whipped up the typical formats:

"Linear", a quick chronological run through all the sounds set to a beat.

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"Layers", i.e. all sounds at once. About a minute and a quarter long.

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"Mix", whereby I hone in on a few sounds and spin that off into something. 1 min, 39 sec.

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Til next time.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Aerial Truck Platform Backing Up Beep



For a week or so an aerial truck platform thing lumbered like an hydraulic dinosaur around the building where I work. The property owners were either cleaning or painting or treating the stone at the top of the chimneys and stuff. It seemed like important work--important enough to use a SkyLift, exactly as in this image I have stolen off Flickr.

Anyway, at one point the beast was inching its way down the alley outside my office window, all the while sending out its mating call: an E7 beep. And I captured a little of it. At the very end of the recording there is a cool sound of engine noise as well, something very brief but Death Star-ish.

Aerial Truck Platform Backing Up Beep

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photo by CovLtwt, used fair 'n' square

Monday, July 14, 2008

Microcassette Transcriber Sounds



Presenting the M-2000. And hey, that's no microcassette, that's a Transformer!

Listen to these euphonious sounds from yesteryear of an old piece of analog electronics.

Here's rewinding a tape. I hear simultaneous A3 and A#3.

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Now here's fast-forward. I hear A#3 and D#4.

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

DVD Burner Fan



A small fan. In the white noise there's a faint whine sharp of a G5.

DVD Burner Fan

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Monday, July 7, 2008

Unidentified Spooky Sound



One night a few years back I was in my bedroom and heard a spooky sound coming from outside in the distance. I sought my microcassette-corder, opened the window, and captured a couple minutes of it on tape. I never figured out what it was. Motorcycles on the highway, racecars at the fairgrounds, an extraterrestrial spacecraft dropping a monolith for some apes? I hear G3, G#3, C#4, and D4.

Unidentified Spooky Sound

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Answering Machine W/ Mysterious Message


Someone left a brief message on my home answering machine tonight. It appeared to be a wrong number as the caller says nothing and you can hear a mysterious siren in the background. Wonder where in the city it came from? And if it was them being chased. I love this kind of stuff. Thanks for the call, anonymous person! The beep is a B5.

Answering Machine W/ Mysterious Message

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