Sounds
Recording of scurrying footsteps, slam of locking building door, constant noise of the coffee stand's refrigerator case, and distant sounds of conversation and air conditioning.
Sound recording of a fish being caught during a deep sea fishing excursion.
A defective CD player attempting to read a CD in a 2001 Honda Accord CD/tape/stereo deck.
Audio file of the song "Cross Road Blues"
Title: Descending Chromatic scale on keyboard
Description: A descending Chromatic scale (playing a semitone below it is pitch one note at a time on a 88 key keyboard which includes 7 octaves) played on a Yamaha PSR-E453 keyboard by me recorded and edited in a small bedroom with a midi (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) cable on Logic Pro X (music editing software). This sound was inspired by the discussion in class about discordance in music early African America studies and me relating it... Read More
A descending fifths sequence is a common compositional technique used by composers from the eighteenth century to expand a simple melodic or harmonic idea. A typical descending fifths sequence is executed when a short melodic phrase is played over a note (or a collection of notes with emphasis on one in particular) in the bass. The next phrase will virtually be an exact copy of the previous phrase and accompanying bassline, except that it will have been transposed an interval of a diatonic... Read More
Sound recorded in the residential housing (Rhoads) for students at Virginia Commonwealth University. The computer that was being used, was a custom built PC that my friend had made a few years ago. The noise was coming from his graphics processing unit (GPU) when it was running at maximum speed. Recorded using a Zoom H1 audio recording device in stereo recording mode.
This sound is a recording of an attending physician and a resident discussing the EEG of a patient in the Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Duke Children's Hospital. EEG is a a technology used to record brain activity, and can provide useful information about brain abnormalities and neurological conditions such as epilepsy. The terminology they use, such as "fast activity", "polyspike", and "1 Hertz slow spike and wave" refer to the patterns they see on the EEG. The clicking sound in the... Read More
This is a recording of an automated phone operator recording. This recording is played when a call fails or there is a technical difficulty. This is a standard operator recording that is seen in most phone systems, although there may be slight variations based on telephone carrier. This recording was produced as part of a compilation of sound effects. Extracted via YouTube clip.
This is the sound of a phone dialing out when a call is placed. I work in an outbound call center and this was recorded at my desk on an Avaya telephone. There is a beeping tone followed by a pause, and then it repeats until either the voicemail picks up or the caller disconnects. in the background you may be able to hear the sound of an air conditioner blowing. This was recorded on an iPhone 7 Plus using the voice memo feature.
Sound recording of two Duke University diesel-powered buses passing pedestrians on Chapel Drive, Durham, NC.
Typing sounds recorded in the Morey Lab at Durham VA Medical Center, a neuroimaging lab studying the effects of blast exposure on white matter integrity in veterans with and without clinical symptoms of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). White matter integrity is assessed using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as it has been shown that white matter is compromised following mTBI. This sound reflects the initiation of bash commands in the linux terminal while... Read More