Links tagged with “sound”
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SoundGym | Audio Ear Training Online
I’ve only tried three free games but this seems great, if a little confusing. Although I don’t think I’m into it enough to pay for it.
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Sleep Ambient HD - YouTube
Six-hour recordings of ambient sound and video from different games like GTA5, Tomb Raider, Mirror’s Edge, etc. (via @mattb)
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Post-Internet Sound
Holly Herndon & Jennifer Walshe: “we are attempting to put together an archive of sound and music works dealing with the internet since its inception” (via @cityofsound)
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Rain.today - Your Daily Source of Natural Rain Sounds
“A stochastic audio engine generates a realistic rain shower by randomly drawing sounds from different categories such as light rain, heavier rain, thunder, and water sounds.” (via Interconnected)
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11 Sounds That Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard - Mental Floss
Sounds of things that you no longer hear. I started making a list of these ages ago, but didn’t even get this many. (via Kottke)
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The Present Sound of London by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News
I was sceptical about this — “I don’t have time to listen to sounds!” “I live in London, I don’t need to hear it through a computer!” — but it’s really quite lovely in its framing of brief moments of life. Would like to overhear more conversations, but I’m nosey.
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Stone Cold Pimpin’: NASA’s Forgotten Ambient Albums
“Space music” from 1992: “raw, uncatalogued space sounds data … we selected random information from the raw data and processed it to produce ‘Symphonies of the Planets’”. Ambient “music”.
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Freesound :: home page
Creative Commons licensed sound effects.
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Freesound :: view pack :: london underground
I’m not sure why sounds recorded from the Tube are interesting, but they are. (via Plasticbag)
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Soundstream
If I used a screensaver… Reacts to sounds it hears through your Mac’s microphone. Only appeared on my PowerBook’s screen, not the external monitor, but still nice.