MetaFilter posts tagged with sounds

The Thumping Guide to New York City

Lutoslawski — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:56:35 -0800

The Thumping Guide to New York City [via mefi projects] documents things in New York City that make cool sounds when you thump them with your fist. I've been following this for a while wondering when would be a good time to put this on the blue. I finally decided that the front page should wait no longer to see the coolness that is this project.

Oranges and lemons

verstegan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:23:21 -0800

London Sound Survey collects the everyday sounds of the capital, including the bells of St Clement's, the call to prayer at the Whitechapel mosque, football fans outside Millwall stadium, a demo in Piccadilly, dubstep at the Notting Hill Carnival and a street preacher at Speaker's Corner.. not forgetting, of course, those ubiquitous sounds of London life, 'Big Issue! Big Issue!' and announcements of planned engineering works on the Tube. (Via.)

Archival Sound Recording Maps at the British Library

LarryC — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:44:52 -0800

Mapping sound at the British Library. The British Library has organized several of its archival sound collections on Google Maps. The results include Accents and Dialects, wildlife and soundscape recordings from Britain, music from India and Uganda, and a whole mess of noisy frogs. You can read more about the Archival Sound Recording Project here or on the project blog. This post comes via the JISC Digitisation blog.

Dude, I never made it to this screen before!

Miko — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:19:34 -0800

The niftiest thing at Coin Op World? The mp3 files of Classic Arcade Sounds. "We recorded our video game experiences from 1982 until 1988 in a variety of locations on the east coast. Most of the recordings come from Ithaca, NY, Albany, NY and Ocean City, MD. Other locations include Lancaster, PA, Falmouth, MA, Rehoboth Beach, DE and Key West, FL. Luckily I stored all fourteen audio tapes in a safe place and rediscovered them when I moved the rest of my stuff out of my parents house in 1997. In the last several years I digitized these nostalgic recordings to preserve and share them."

Get your monophthongs here

Lezzles — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:10:54 -0800

Sounds of American English details each of the consonants and vowels of American English with a real-time Flash animated articulatory diagram of each sound; video and audio of the sound spoken in context and an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy.

Tips for Tech Users, Designers, Bloggers

netbros — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:07:55 -0800

Hongkiat.com is a treasure trove from a Malaysian designer, developer that features Photoshop tutorials, icons, Wordpress tips and tricks, tools for everything from sound to Flickr, inspirations, graphics and templates, stunning wallpapers including for Windows 7, Leopard, and iPhone, and finally a library of how-to's to make your everyday internet simpler.

UCLA's Phonetics Lab Archive

cog_nate — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:25:55 -0800

"For over half a century, the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory has collected recordings of hundreds of languages from around the world, providing source materials for phonetic and phonological research, of value to scholars, speakers of the languages, and language learners alike. The materials on this site comprise audio recordings illustrating phonetic structures from over 200 languages with phonetic transcriptions, plus scans of original field notes where relevant." (Description from website.) Many more recordings -- indexed by language, sound, and geographic location -- are available here.

You're On the Clock

netbros — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:37:11 -0800

A lot can happen in 60 seconds. Such as podcasts of one minute how to's, or technology tips, or even one-minute vacations[previous & ongoing] from the life you are living.

Music of the spheres

blahblahblah — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:51:13 -0800

Earth is not a quiet planet. It transmits a rather hideous sound [flash] into space that is 10,000 times greater in strength than any man-made radio transmission. The Earth also quietly hums with seismic Love Waves (hear them), while the Magnetosphere is alive will all sorts of sounds (check out the creepy-sounding Chorus Emissions). Also, stars sing out in middle C before they explode as supernovae, and the Perseus Cluster black hole has droned a B-flat for the past 2.5 billion years.

"Guns on the Wing!"

John of Michigan — Sat, 12 May 2007 11:25:00 -0800

Sounds from the Vietnam War. Battle sounds, RTO chatter, speeches, briefings, LZ dustoffs, dogfights, and pirate radio. What war sounded like, in country and back the U.S.

333-333-333 We Present A SPECIAL PRESENTATION 333-333-333

Rev. Syung Myung Me — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:36:09 -0800

333-333-333 YOU WILL SEE SUCH PRETTY THINGS (via) 333-333-333

Meet. Mix. Mashup.

crunchland — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:14:24 -0800

Splice gives anyone, anywhere the ability to collaborate on music right through a web browser. Users can upload or record sounds, make songs, listen to other user's songs, make remixes, make friends and a whole lot more.

Oranges and lemons

tellurian — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:58:00 -0800

Love's guide to the church bells of the City of London (with sounds, peals and pictures).

Learning can be fun.

nickyskye — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:57:05 -0800

Science sites of all kinds for kids. Archeology. Entomology. Natural Symphony. Baseball in Space. Philosophy. Process or Content. Science songs. Physics songs, relativity. String theory. Science and Art.

And how exactly do you kill a sound?

bigmusic — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:59:52 -0800

Sounds that must die. Yes, the amen break is listed.

'Atsa one catchy-a tune-a!

grumblebee — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:34:47 -0800

The Sounds of Pasta

Clik Clak...Whirr

jann — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:22:22 -0800

Clik. Clak. (embedded Quicktime video.) Short animated film featuring little robots who make their own language using Rube Goldberg contraptions.

Sadly, the falling tree was not listed

DeepFriedTwinkies — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:11:48 -0800

Need to know what a toad sounds like? How about an agogo or siskin? Findsounds is here to help.

Acoustic Ecology and Soundscapes

chrismear — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:52:12 -0800

Ever just stopped and listened? Acoustic Ecology encourages us to be aware of the sound environment around us, and to take responsibility for it.

The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, as well as publishing a beautiful journal called Soundscape, is a starting point for finding many sound resources. Listen to soundscapes from Denmark and California, and field recordings from Vietnam and Vancouver. Take an audiovisual tour of NYC or Portland, Oregon. Experience cicadas, birds, frogs and other animals. Take a soundwalk through the park. Create your own international sound journey. You can even hear sounds from underwater or from the Northern Lights in the sky. And when you're done, learn how to make your own recordings.

Bad sounds

Ugandan Discussions — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 04:52:46 -0800

Sound 101 Fingernails scraping down a blackboard... the scream of a baby... your neighbour's dog barking: what is the worst sound in the world? This is what this website is trying to find out. Acoustic science is concerned with the production, transmission, manipulation and reception of sound, from unwanted traffic noise to beautiful music. Acoustics is about both the physical properties of sound waves and the reaction of humans. This website is interested in the often complex ways in which people perceive and interpret sounds. The aim is to increase awareness of sound psychology by examining what makes a sound unpleasant to hear. Your votes on the site will also give us an insight into what is the worst sound in the world, and maybe why it is the worst sound.

Arcade Sounds

rxrfrx — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:56:59 -0800

Arcade Sounds. We recorded video games from 1982 until 1988. Fortunately I managed to save all fourteen audio tapes of video game sounds and arcade ambience which were recorded from a variety of locations in the US. Most of the recordings are from Ithaca, NY, Albany, NY and Ocean City, MD.

Calling all animals

Mo Nickels — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:46:34 -0800

Ideophones are words that are usually spoken but not written and are often onomatopoeic, including (but not limited to) the calls—often reduplicated—with which we beckon domestic animals, kindred to our animal imitations. In the States there are many more pig calls beyond soo-ee. Maxim Gorky wrote that the sound tse tse is used to call pigs in Russia. In Spanish coch is used. Americans use pipi and biddy to call chickens and turkeys. In Ambon Malay chickens are called with kurrrrr or pan kur. In Kiswahili you call chickens with gurúgurúgurúgurú, call dogs with aháháhá, and straying cattle with ishiyeeyeeeeee or ngoyéeeeee. In Sweden, they call cattle with a loud, high-pitched kulning (akin to yodeling). Cervantes wrote that they use tus tus to call dogs in Spain. One source says in Coolderry, Ireland, they use gen-gen to call pigs to ford, puddly pudde to call ducks, peopeo to call horses, and geg geg to call geese. In Iceland, kibbakibb is used to call sheep. In the Hiligaynon language of the Philippines, they call cats with míming. In the parish of Nantcwnlle in Wales they have their own set of calls.

space sounds

dhruva — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:56:34 -0800

Saturn's Eerie Radio Emissions and other space sounds.

the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss)

anastasiav — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:24:59 -0800

International Onomatopoeic Sounds
[Note: You must have sound for this to be cool]

Collect Britain

plep — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 07:49:32 -0800

Collect Britain 'presents 90,000 images and sounds from the British Library, chosen to evoke places in the UK and beyond.' Dialects, gardens, sketches, stamps, and all kinds of stuff.