'P' Sounds
Sound of peanuts being shelled on an outdoor porch.
A pedal point is sustained over several chords. Typically found in the bass voice, although not always, the pedal point remains the same pitch while the other voices of the chords shift around it. This instance is found in the sinfonia for the opera La Villana Riconosciuta by Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), in the first movement, Allegro Con Spirito. This particular example exists in several octaves in the bass, cello, and viola parts, as well as both bassoon parts. The pedal point occurs... Read More
An excerpt from "God's Gonna Cut You Down." Johnny Cash's rendition of the traditional folk song "Run On." The song was recorded in 2003, and released posthumously in 2006 on his album, American V: A Hundred Highways.
This sound is a recording of an attending physician and a resident discussing the EEG of a patient in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Duke Children's Hospital. The patient they are discussing underwent deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) during a heart surgery. Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest is a surgical technique in which the body is cooled to reduce the rate of blood flow and thereby reduce the chance of stroke-related or oxygen deprivation-related brain injury. The patient's ... Read More
This sound is a recording of an attending physician and a resident discussing the EEG of a patient in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Duke Children's Hospital. In the recording, the resident asks questions about this technique and the attending physician answers. Terminology such as "focal slowing" and "abundant right sharps and spike waves" refers to the refer to the types of patterns the physicians are seeing on the EEG. At the end of the recording, the attending physician notes that the... Read More
This sound is a recording of an attending physician and a resident discussing the EEG of a patient in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Duke Children's Hospital. The patient that they are discussing underwent a frontal lobectomy. A frontal lobectomy is a procedure in which the frontal part of the brain is removed to try to eliminate severe seizures that originate in this area. The whirring in the background is the sound of the computer displaying the EEG. Terminology such as "continuous right... Read More
Peeling an orange recorded with a Zoom m4n Handy Recorder. The recording includes general microphone noises.
Sound recording of a pen clicking. Recorded on an iPhone 5.
Sound of a pen clicking.The pen is an essential tool for the average college student. Recorded on iPhone 7+
Sound recording of a pen dropping. Recorded on an iPhone 5.
Sound recording of a person writing with a pen on paper. Recorded on a Zoom Recorder
Sound recording of pencil writing and drawing on paper.