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What are your favourite sounds or noises?

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like the sound of beer hitting the bottom of a glass. Fountain pen on clean paper...

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

inspired by a gig of very quiet impro just witnessed

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really really like the sounds you can create with the Metasynth program. These are like the sounds that Aphex Twin 'uses' in Windowlicker and Squarpusher in "Do You Know Squarepusher".

― Francis, Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anyone else out there like photocopiers?

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

The quiet babbling "gloog-gloog-gloog" when you pour the first glass out of a new bottle of Irish whisky. The echo of a .22 rifle in a wooded hollow. The marlin leaping out from behind the fishing boat. The grunting of bull in his death throes.

― Ernest Hemingway, Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm a sucker for photocopiers. Is there a difference in brands though?

― balki, Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

The clicky sound that pedestrian lights make when they're green

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

the squishy sound yr lower lip makes when you take it between two fingers and tug on it rapidly.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

SCREECHING SWINGSET REPRESENT!!

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

keys inside a lock

guitar harmonics

the sounds that swords make in movies

the metronomic funk of photcopiers

low pitched bells

the details that clockwork machinery reveals up close

axes biting into logs

― mike (ro)bott, Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

When ice cubes and soda/soft drinks meet...that fizzy popping and deep clunking of cube on cube, simply marvelous.

I'm thirsty now.

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 27 September 2002 00:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

boring answer: the rain.
also, my next door neighbour often plays the piano in the morning, and i like to listen to the muffled sound through my bedroom wall.

― cecilia, Friday, 27 September 2002 00:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wobbling a pot filled with water, and hitting the bottom.
The hitting of a long unoccupied bleacher in stands. (like at a highschool)

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 27 September 2002 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

The sound of someone moving their mouth when it's full of saliva. Its very soothing.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 27 September 2002 01:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Phocopiers are good, when you set to 50-100 copies.

Hitting myself in the head.

A nice snare drum.

Short breaking glass (Like the start of The Fall's cover of 'Victoria')

― Sasha Gabba Hey! (sgh), Friday, 27 September 2002 02:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The clickity rapid-fire of 35mm cameras (as begins "Girls on Film")

The dull thud of a huge encyclopedia/dictionary being closed in its midsection.

The low, gruff growl of big jungle cats.

Ricocheting bullets

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 September 2002 03:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Balki's question about different brands of photocopier is fascinating. Could you imagine carrying out a scientific experiment?! And in future years, once this research is well-known you get friends arguing along the lines of 'we've just a cracking "trouble funk" Rank Xerox at our office.' 'Which model?' 'Not sure but it pisses all over the old "sugarhill" Canon' etc etc

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 27 September 2002 05:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

For years, there's been this amazing sparkly sound at Paris CDG Airport, preceding every annoucement. I'm determined to get it onto a recording.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 27 September 2002 06:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

everyone else when I'm in bed

― jon (jon), Friday, 27 September 2002 06:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wine from a bottle. Minidisc from a minidisc player. Cordite from a match. Clunk from an expensive car door.

Blues from a gun.

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 27 September 2002 06:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

that noise that i think sreynolds called the 'oscillator riff', its not actually a good term because it doesn't sound like that, but its on DJs Unite by DJs Unite, and Some Justice by Urban Shakedown

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 27 September 2002 07:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

"amazing sparkly sound at Paris CDG Airport, preceding every annoucement"

I'll probably be there next week - I'll check it out.

― tigerclawskank, Friday, 27 September 2002 08:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

the sound you get when the computer is dialing for the online connection.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 27 September 2002 09:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Caw Caw' noise that crows make

Deep snow scrunching underboot

Tintinnabulation

Foghorns

Harpsichords

Slow pendulum-clunk clocks

Lowpass-filter cutoff-frequency sweepdown, with slow decay envelope and high-q setting.

― Ray M (rdmanston), Friday, 27 September 2002 09:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

the sound of gravel crunching when you walk on it

― racing_the_tide (racing_the_tide), Friday, 27 September 2002 09:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Car tyres sound especially good on gravel. but yeah gravel's good.

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 27 September 2002 09:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

skateboard on new, even paving slabs.... clunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunk

sweeeet

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

One of the things I always liked about Microstoria is that their music sounds like copiers, fax machines, and modems jamming.

Grackles (the Aphex Twin of the avian world)

The soft, omnipresent whoosh/whir of central A/C kicking on in a quiet house (very Thomas Koener)

Wood chipper (in active use only)

Dropping a big river rock into a deepish pool (pbloompb!)

There's tons more, but that's all I can think of right off.

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

The muffled sound of a dog barking in its sleep.

Fake sonic noises - guitars that sound like turbines.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

all sounds are good!

― John Cage (jdesouza), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

The skin of two people together. Talcum powder.

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thighs

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

mmm...

the 'chi-cho, chi-cho' sound that tube tracks make when there's a train approaching - the only song I can think of that sounds like that is the odd sound at the beginning of the Sex Pistols "Stepping Stone".

The 'koooh' sound of a well-timed cricket stroke, particularly a drive through mid-wicket by a left-hander.

The crackle of chips cooking.

The jangle of Johnny Marr's guitar playing 1983-7.

― Darren, Friday, 27 September 2002 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Beer Bottles Opening
The Paper Shredder
The Automatic Stapler on A Photocopier
Harmonium Drone

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Senor Wences

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 September 2002 00:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

squeaky new snow

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 28 September 2002 02:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Darren, hmmmm, does a left-hander make a different sound to a right-hander? Also I'd say that cover drives give a much more satisfying clack than anything through midwicket. None of which is matched by the 'crack-boom' of a stump bowled clean out of the earth. And in the context of a game it's so significant, dramatic and final.

― Daniel (dancity), Saturday, 28 September 2002 06:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

Painting with a brush on a wall.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

one car driving past your window very late on a rainy night....

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

French background chatter...and a cat's spinning..or am I being a hopeless romantic now?

― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Your own breathing, when underwater.

The ocean - any ocean, at any proximity
Dry autumn leaves underfoot
Typewriters
The 'THX' sound at the start of movies
Laughter
The kind of whistling that belongs only to elderly men, beautifully melodic & tuneful
High heeled shoes in large echoey foyers
Milk being steamed (ie for coffee)
The sound made when you run a wet finger round the rim of a glass ( I do it all the time when I'm doing the dishes)

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link

trees and chimes moving in a breeze

― ()ops (()()ps), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

V8 engines! Old ones only though.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 05:51 (eighteen years ago) link

"chiming" piano chords. i've been hearing these in the distance lately (no real playing, just random chiming sounds every so often), and it's nice.

― cindy margolis holocaust (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Freight cars clunking into place.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link

chainsaws.
ceiling fans.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 06:29 (eighteen years ago) link

harpsichords. not in baroque music though, only in rock/pop music.

― cindy margolis holocaust (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 06:31 (eighteen years ago) link

303

― deru, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link

A few of my faves were mentioned already, so here's a few more:

Bacon frying
Bagpipes!
Those ancient wheezing automobile horns
Equally obsolete coffee percolators
The sounds of a symphony orchestra tuning up and whatnot, just before they begin to play. I could listen to that for an hour
And, though I'm not a Trekkie (I swear!), I've always loved the sound effects on that show, esp. the ambient noises on the bridge and the chirp of the communicators.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 07:46 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

The sounds of a symphony orchestra tuning up and whatnot, just before they begin to play. I could listen to that for an hour

Who uses/makes that kind of 'music' ? I already have all the Glenn Branca I need and would prefer something more random, or long samples.

And for me it's water, especially snow.

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

any monotonous whirring spund. hairdryers, heaters etc... they make me feel very secure and comfortable.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

the sound when you shake a lightbulb after it's finished.

― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link

Has anyone ever used a cat purring in a song?

― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 30 October 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link

The quiet babbling "gloog-gloog-gloog" when you pour the first glass out of a new bottle of Irish whisky.

There was a scientific study done on this.

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Friday, 30 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link

The sound of a home popcorn popping machine is my personal "most nostalgic sound."

http://seancasio.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/popcorn-air-popper.jpg

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Friday, 30 October 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

1. An overdriven/distorted Hammond oragn (see: "What Goes On", "Once in a Lifetime"
2. an 808 Cowbell

― saturday (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 5 December 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link

rhodes uber alles

― kanellos (gbx), Sunday, 5 December 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link

meow

― patrick NAGL (corey), Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link

i will brook no disagreement

― kanellos (gbx), Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link

light bulb shattering

― blank, Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link

I also like the climactic flurry of steam farts made by the coffee maker once it's done brewing

― blank, Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link

The "dun-dun-DUN-dum"'sound ESPN plays whenever it deploys/updates its sports ticker

― blank, Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link

The canned "splash", "wave" sounds when they spray the produce at grocery stores

― blank, Sunday, 5 December 2010 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

sounds made from long stretches of wire http://wiredlab.org/wires/audio-recordings/

This page contains a number of recordings and compositions spanning almost two decades that were made using long wire instruments in a variety of locations. The recordings comprise compositions by Alan Lamb including one previously unreleased, WIRED Lab compositions, demos and short mixes of WIRED Lab events.

― all things must pass (shaane), Saturday, 17 March 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link

the recording of rain on a long wire sounds like some far off mega space war with laser weapons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t-4s0el7_fE#!

― all things must pass (shaane), Saturday, 17 March 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link

balls http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t-4s0el7_fE

― all things must pass (shaane), Saturday, 17 March 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link

whoa, I was just thinking about Lucier's Music On A Long Thin Wire moments before opening this thread.

― Sexess - Sexual Success Or; Successful Sex (crüt), Saturday, 17 March 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago) link

my favorite sound is very very very very very very loud white noise with emphasized bass frequencies

― Sexess - Sexual Success Or; Successful Sex (crüt), Saturday, 17 March 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link

example plz

― all things must pass (shaane), Saturday, 17 March 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link

the recording of rain on a long wire sounds like some far off mega space war with laser weapons.

thank you.
my perfect reminder for listening again Oxygène

― meisenfek, Saturday, 17 March 2012 07:45 (twelve years ago) link

nice! just play one video over the other.

― all things must pass (shaane), Saturday, 17 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link

did it already ^^
really works

― meisenfek, Saturday, 17 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

eight months pass...

the booming thud sound from the blade runner titles

― ゑ (clouds), Friday, 30 November 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link

the slight grunt of displeasure my cat makes when i pick her up

― ゑ (clouds), Friday, 30 November 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link

the "blaster beam" sound in the first star trek movie

― ゑ (clouds), Friday, 30 November 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link

the scream in "come to daddy"

― ゑ (clouds), Friday, 30 November 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link

tr-909 with heavily gated reverb

― ゑ (clouds), Friday, 30 November 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link

lone trumpet over quiet orchestral background

― ゑ (clouds), Friday, 30 November 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link

fm synth triangle wave with slow and heavy lfo

― ゑ (clouds), Friday, 30 November 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link

mentasms

― the late great, Friday, 30 November 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link

ten months pass...

1:06 thru 1:21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYDd6eD454

― fresh (crüt), Saturday, 19 October 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link

four months pass...

bobby orlando cowbells

― brimstead, Friday, 14 March 2014 02:01 (ten years ago) link

dinner bell in cool hand luke

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 14 March 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link

ARP strings

― clouds, Friday, 14 March 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link

four months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKTrV9JJo7Y

― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Friday, 25 July 2014 02:45 (nine years ago) link

dx-7 bells

― clouds, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link

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