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OK, what non-musical noises do you like listening to? Which can't you stand?

― phil, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At my last company, the sound of the Air-conditioning in the toilet sounded great... Could listen to that droning sound for hours....

― Baxter Wingnut, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: My dentist drilling a hole in my brain.
Destroy: My boss asking me to work.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The constant low rumbling sounds in urban environments - car/truck/bus engines - are really beginning to annoy me. And a lot of other machines make intrusive whining sounds eg drinks cooling cabinets in shops. You tend not to notice it because it's just everyday but I've tuned into it because it intrudes on other sounds that I want to record with my MD. This kind of crude mechanical noise will seem incredibly primitive in the future.

― David, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hair-dryer.a long time favourite.so intimate I could listen to it for hours. reynols's record blank tapes makes me think of this "noise" and is absolutely gorgeous.

― francesco, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there's a major freeway near my house that goes over the delaware river on concrete pilings; late at night, especially after it rains, the sound of the cars going by is distilled into a creepy, granular drone that fades out and down with the doppler effect. there's tons of reverb due to the river, the huge overpass, and the manmade geography of the town. i quite like the sound, but it's given my girlfriend nightmares for years now... the one unfortunate thing about living in this part of new jersey is that there are no areas that are truly isolated from roads, so if you want to go to a park just to listen to birds, squirrels, giant mosquitoes, etc. without road noises, you have to drive at least an hour away.

― your null fame, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

angle-grinder makes spangy harmonics

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This little clicking sound my hard drive makes when I'm really taxin' it.

― briania, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The clickety-clack of a train on a track - it's a beautiful noise.

― Dave225, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love your null fame's description of the highway and the rain. Wind rushing through trees and grass last weekend in Prospect Park was an incredible sound. search big macro-sounds created by millions of individual micro ones. destroy: whatever sound someone else coming home at the exact moment you're about to fall asleep makes.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

grrr

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

''The clickety-clack of a train on a track - it's a beautiful noise.''

Absolutely! And when the train driver applies the brakes or if there's loads of friction you can get sounds not too distant from the ones emmited by keiji haino's guitar!

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two cool sounds from last six months- one morning I stumbled sleepily outside to walk to school. I was struck by a neighbor using a leaf blower on one side of the street, a street cleaner machine was operating on the other. The interval was a bit flat of a minor third, it was so spooky. The other dealt with hearing a car pass over a hill and honking its vintage horn. The bent overtones in the strange chord echoed off of the buildings of the industrial district. It was wonderful.

― tyler, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am displeased by the sound of the head of my lover's mistress gently colliding with a bed's headboard, in a flea-infested New Orleans hotel with an hourly rate, as heard through surveillance equipment, and I love the sound of crisp hundred dollar bills being passed from my hand to a debt-ridden, defrocked Marine marksman with a nervous tic.

― Kate Spiren, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

zoing!

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The natural flaged sounds, like empty metal bleechers, or tall metal street lights, or a pot filled with water.

― A Nairn, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That should be flanged, and I also love distant crowds. esp. angry ones.

― A Nairn, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lots of them, but I especially like the sound of flag pole cords (?) banging against flag-poles in windy weather.

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lots of them, but I especially like the sound of flag pole cords (?) banging against flag-poles in windy weather.

awwwwww yeah, that's the shit. similarly, the elementary school i went to (elmhurst in ventura, ca) had this playground equipment i've never seen anywhere else - basically, it was giant, metal swinging rings on an overhead metal beam, and when the wind would blow they would creak around and occasionally clank into each other...beautiful sound. i've actually tried to re-create it with instruments to no avail. clang, clanggcla, langclan, clangclangg...

― your null fame, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― the Stanmore signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

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