'R' Sounds

Esta grabación de sonido es dos extractos separados de la canción, "Richie's Jala Jala." Los primeros 26,5 segundos fueron la introducción a la canción. Esta parte demuestra el ritmo de Jala Jala, un ritmo creado por Roberto Roena inspirado en el ritmo de Mozambique. El Jala Jala era una variante del ritmo de Mozambique con el uso del cencerro. Sin embargo, la introducción de "Richie's Jala Jala" utiliza un piano para construir el ritmo de Jala Jala antes de incorporar el cencerro y la banda.... Read More
The sound represented is a mellow jazz groove performed on a Zildjian L80 low volume cymbal inside of my dorm. This recording was done on an IPhone 6S and edited on Audacity.
Sound recording of a riding lawn mower driving with the metal clicking of the blades down a concrete trail near a moderately sized creek on a humid summer day. Recorded with a Zoom H6 recorder and Rode NTG2 shotgun condenser microphone. 
Two people riding skateboards at 10:00 AM around an asphalt turn at the Duke East Campus Quad. Recorded on an IPhone 5S about 10 feet back from the skaters rounding the turn. Because of the stationary mic placement, the sound of the skateboards slowly grows into a rumble and then fades as the boarders ride away.
A recording of Italian radio, wind, and traffic designed to demonstrate the "meaningless" cacophony that can be present in the "nothing" of absent listening. Inspired by Daniela Cascella's descriptions of listening to radio while sitting in traffic on the ring road outside of Rome, this recording draws attention to the disparity between external sound ("noisiness") and content ("meaning").
Sound recording of IPhone 5S classic ringtone
The sound of ripping a piece of cotton fabric
The paper is torn nine times. The first rip is longways down the middle. The sound is long and drawn-out. The next four times are horizontal, down one of the halves. In the next four tears, the paper is ripped into very small pieces so the sounds are sharper and shorter. The rustlings between the first 5 tears are the sounds of a newly torn piece being put down.
Extracto de un video de Paul Lopez tocando un ritmo merengue con dos congas. El tempo se acelera y se desacelera. | Excerpt from a video of Paul Lopez playing a merengue rhythm with two drums. The tempo accelerates and decelerates.
Sound recording of a river flowing.
Sound recording of Siri giving directions to Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke University. Siri is an electronic assistant feature of the Apple Inc. iPhone. She does not maintain the usual pronunciation of certain words. She calmly gives directions to the user without emotion. A Zoom Recorder was used.
Sound recording of wooden rocking chair rocking back and forth on a wooden porch.

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