Experiment
Weird Cartoonish Laughs/Noises
By Stilgar, August 27th, 2008 Cartoon | cartoonish | laugh | laughing | spazzy | weird | Single Subject | Human | Experiment | Variable Bitrate | MonoI was trying to imitate some wildcat type sounds, but what ended up coming out of my mouth was something that sounded more like a cartoon character's weird laughs/noises.
Windy Breath
By Stilgar, August 26th, 2008 Air | blowing | Breath | breathing | Wind | Single Subject | Human | Experiment | Variable Bitrate | MonoA few long, windy-sounding breaths over the microphone.
Grinding and tapping Rocks
By Stilgar, August 26th, 2008 grinding | Rock | Stone | tapping | Single Subject | Experiment | Variable Bitrate | MonoI grind and tap a couple of stones against each other and against the microphone.
Plastic Wrapping
By Stilgar, August 26th, 2008 blowing | crackling | crumpling | crunching | Plastic | Single Subject | Experiment | Variable Bitrate | MonoI crumple, pound on, and blow through a piece of plastic wrapping.
Can of Compressed Air
By Stilgar, August 26th, 2008 Air | blowing | hissing | Plastic | scraping | Straw | Single Subject | Experiment | Variable Bitrate | MonoI spray a can of compressed air at the microphone. The nozzle straw of it ended up rubbing against the microphone once, which produced an interesting noise.
Metal Pot and Lid Percussion
By Stilgar, August 26th, 2008 Metal | Percussion | Pot | Single Subject | Experiment | Variable Bitrate | MonoI make a bunch of percussion-type sounds by hitting a metal pot and its lid.
Breaking Spaghetti
By Stilgar, August 26th, 2008 breaking | crunching | dry | snapping | Spaghetti | Single Subject | Experiment | Variable Bitrate | MonoBreaking a bundle of spaghetti in half near the microphone. I cleaned this one up a bit of background noise and gaps of silence.
airport station bulletin board - synthesized
By Stephan, June 11th, 2008 Airport | Arrival | Board | Bulletin | clattering | Departure | News | Noise | Railway | rustling | Scoreboard | Station | Table | Ticker | Time | Single Subject | Synthesized | Experiment | 192 kBit/s | StereoThe file consists of 7 variations of this rustling bulletin boards sound.
dropping particles
By Stephan, May 6th, 2008 aleatoric | crackling | dropping | Lentils | Particles | pelting | prickling | Single Subject | Natural | Experiment | 224 kBit/s | StereoDropping lentils into a plastic tub.
The file consists of two different recordings. The first sound pricklier and closer. The second (after about the half of the file) more particles drop.
stomping machine
By Stephan, May 6th, 2008 *whoosh* | Fabrication | Industry | Lentils | Machine | Particles | pounding | Processing | pumping | rhythmic | scooping | stamping | stiring | Single Subject | Natural | Experiment | 192 kBit/s | StereoIt's a plastic tub full of lentils (those lense shaped peas?) in which i scoop up hands full of lentils and let them drop again. The lentils are very smooth to the touch.

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