This recording was made on a sunday morning in July in Ijmuiden / Netherlands. It is a harbour near Amsterdam, where a ferry leaves for Newcastle.

Clickick!
Two light lentils dropping on a hollow plastic surface. Sound has nothing to do with a switch, but hey...

A ball bounces of the heater onto the table hitting an empty cup of joghurt and other debris off the table.

Not synthesized. Happens when i turn with the mic in hand and the air wirrs through the microphone.

Opening the cap of a plastic bottle of malt beer which was under pressure.

1 minute recording from the Citizens Registration Office in Berlin Pankow.

Recorded in the Alexa shopping mall, Berlin, 2nd (Food) Floor at 13:30 on a monday. Typical german mall ambience.

Silvester 2007/08 Berlin Weinbergsweg. 2:30AM. Ambience and Firework. Recorded with ZoomH2 and Ohrwurm Audio Microphones, MP3, 320kbps

sin(2*pi*f*t)
Sinus Wave: 500 hz

aggressive electronic buzzing from powercell recharger - recorded very close.

Using an air duster can. Releasing the air harder and harder. SOunds like a gas leak, too.

Using an air duster can to dust off computers and electronics.

The file consists of 7 variations of this rustling bulletin boards sound.

Took a sinus. Distorted it. And made the volume shape a square-wave to make it "beep - beep - beep"

Remember that you can change pitch and speed to enhance the alarms sincerity.

Aleatoric music made by randomly playing a set of 5 sounds of pdsounds.org
Impression: lonely, empty, glum

Flanger on a grumbling drone. Alien ship machine room ambience?
wubbb --- wubbb --- wubbb.


If i"d to use it for an audiobook i"d use it for E.M.Forster "The machine stops".

Could be a scanning device of advanced alien technology :)

65-second recording of a high school computer classroom - Ambient sound (very few distinct words)

Police sirens on the streets of Washington DC, USA, heard from inside my apartment in Dupont Circle, in 2007.

In between recording two sentences...

Sound heard before an annoucement, while waiting, on a wharf, for a boat (July 2008).

Relatives applauding at a primary school christmas festivity

Applause, medium size auditorium (ca. 500 Persons)

An old and noisy parisian elevator

1 minute of assorted jarring sounds of:

One of those standart padded swivel office chairs with hydraulics.

Assorted recordings around a heap of concrete gravel, stones and rocks. Pulling and pushing pieces down the heap. The heap is about 2 meters tall. Unfortunatly we got birds.

These are some of the noises that people have with their recording setups over at librivox.org. Some ambient sounds are in it for fun.
Each noise is amazingly different.

ATM - withdrawing 50 Euro at night.

Nightly printout of a statement of account at the ATM.

Baby is builing up one huge long complaining cry.
Ow, the sound loops. :)
Baby is 2 months old.

Baby is 2 Months old. Male

Bless you! Gesundheit!
A baby (2 months old) sneezes three times in a row. Must have been dust.

No cutting and pasting.
Recording is noisecleaned.

Baby is working, something is busying him. Perhaps a slight tummy pain. Baby is 2 months old, male.

2 different yawning of a baby, 2 months old, male.
After gaping it smacks.

Baby is crying in pain. But its a medium cry. It sounds to me as ist still rather struggling with dissapointment about the light pain but it"s not that urgent yet. ;)
Baby is 2 months old.

Noise of baby"s rattle.

A two months old baby shitting into his diaper. This is a nasty sound.

Baby is 5 months old - male. Liing on its back and/or tummy on the floor on a thick blanket in a 4 by 3 meter lightly furnished room.

A cloth bag of modern English coins clinking and jingling.

While recording...

Filling a ballon with air and tiing the knot.
Then assorted balloon sounds.
Screeching, Bouncing...

A barbecue in Brunoy (near Paris), in june 2008

Growling laughter, meant to sound like a beast-man or similar creature.

done in 20 minutes. :-)

A tempest in the city of Cologne. Approaching thunders, wind gusts shaking the trees, my neighbours cleaning up their balconies and a male voice shouting "Schoener Regenbogen (beautiful rainbow)"

human voice, imitating a frog

Binging caused by a plastic pen percussing on a half-filled, pint-sized glass of water.

bird in front of window, singing at 5AM.

That kind bird, or one of his peer, woke me up early in the morning. Cars can be heard on a road in the distance.

Bird singing on a sunny afternoon. Belgian countryside"s garden.

Birds singing birdsongs in a Belgian countryside"s garden on a sunny afternoon. A gentle breeze can be heard blowing on the mic. And two cars passed by down the street.

Bird Song. Sunny April day in germany. Open light woods. Sounds like Summer. Mild breeze. Warm.

In between recording sentences.

Bag bellow for pumping up air mattresses.
(Blasebalg Luftpumpe zum Aufpumpen von Luftmatratzen)

Noises made by a boat, by a wharf.
And people talking.

Noises made by a boat, by a wharf.
And people talking.

Noises made by a boat, by a wharf.
And people talking.

Noises made by a boat when landing at a wharf.
And people talking.

The boiler switches on, heats and switches off.
YOu can hear the ignition flame igniting the gas.

boiling lentils in a small pot.

Bringing a kettle of boiling water close to the mic, I pour it onto a teabag in a mug.

Perfect sounds for all kinds of breaking, cracking, crackling, snapping, like Bones, Fire, Wood or Ice, or alien insects hatching from their larva exoskeleton. Eating mandibles. Ripping flesh.

This is a collection of several books and paper sounds:

Books of different paper and sizes.
Mainly different flipping pages sounds.
Opening and closing of book covers.
Ripping paper.

Opening and pouring a Bottle of Beer.

Opening a box of chocolates, taking the aluminium-like paper away, eating a crunchy chocolate and closing bow back.

Breaking a bundle of spaghetti in half near the microphone. I cleaned this one up a bit of background noise and gaps of silence.

33 year old man breathing in an exaggerated fashion.

Belgian countryside garden. Slight breeze on a sunny afternoon with birds singing and geese ... hmm ... what do geese do?

Brushing the bottom, top, front, outside, bottom, top and inside of one"s teeth. No water running.

brushing teeth,
spitting out into basin,
rinse

Sounds like a stapler, but is the buckling of a seatbelt in a subaru justy.

Budgerigars chirping.

A belch.

Well, yes, it was missing among the sounds. That"s my excuse. ;^)

Couldn"t hold back from laughing when reading a character"s description while recording

Riding the bus, hearing the station-announcements, hearing two female students talking about chemistry in german.

Parking garage at night. Using the ticket pay automate.
It gives of cute buzzing noises.
Hear two coins roll through the mechanism and one drop into the money box.

Parking garage at night. Using the ticket on the barrier aparatus at the garage exit.
It gives of cute buzzing noises.

I spray a can of compressed air at the microphone. The nozzle straw of it ended up rubbing against the microphone once, which produced an interesting noise.

car driving by on a cobblestone street

Pushing a cassette into the car stereo tapedeck.
Tape motor starts. *kink* The tape runs.
Ejecting the tape.

Cat is eating the standart mincemeat wet with jelly.

Sussex. MS907 - MZ-N10 - iRiver 10-Sept-2006. This church is known as "The Cathedral Of The Downs" - the South Downs being a range of hills that run through Sussex.

Pouring a bowl of raisin bran cereal. Opening the box and liner bag (plastic) adds some thumping and rustling sounds.

Pouring a bowl of shredded wheat squares cereal. Opening the box and liner bag (plastic) adds some thumpy, rustly sounds.

Cutting a tree in the neighbourhood.

Tree being cut in the neighbourhood.

Tree being cut in city neighbourhood.
Ambulance passing by.
Tree branch falling off.

Tree being cut in the neighbourhood.
Ambulance and plane passing by.

Tree being cut in the neighbourhood.

Tree being cut in the neighbourhood.

Tree being cut in the neighbourhood.
Branch falling off.

Tree being cut in the neighbourhood.
Branch falling off.

Tree being cut in the neighbourhood.

Tree being cut in the neighbourhood.

Tree being cut in the neighbourhood.
Bird nearby.
Human voice.

Tree being cut in a city neighbourhood.

Lighting up a cheap plastic cigarette ligher. Quiet gas hissing.

:)
Push a baby toys button and it plays this awkward sounding tune. Next time i try to capture it when the batteries are low. Even cheesier than.

Chewing gum with one"s mouth closed, swallowing in the middle of it.

Chickens standing around and clucking while eating their food.

Hitting the rim of a planter in various ways. It"s a clear single high chiming.

Hitting a slightly bigger planter than this one: chiming_pottery.mp3

chopping leeks on a wooden cutting surface.

May 27, 2007 - Church of Christ the King (1927), Leverkusen, Germany.

May 27, 2007 - Church of Christ the King (1927), Leverkusen, Germany.

May 27, 2007 - Church of Christ the King (1927), Leverkusen, Germany.

May 27, 2007 - Church of Christ the King (1927), Leverkusen, Germany.

May 27, 2007 - Church of Christ the King (1927), Leverkusen, Germany.

Innercity pedestrian zone of Leverkusen, Germany.
Standing next to the church, a broad street full people passing and shopping. Sonny morning on a weekday.

Sounds from my window on a sunny Sunday afternoon in May, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands - church bells of the St.

Church "Walla"
People walking and muttering. Hard floor - church reverb.
Predominantly you can hear one pair of rather clicking womens shoes leaving the church.

Cicadas in Island Porquerolles(France) in august 2008

A lot of dropping plastic things sounds.

Sounds like a big clockwork, but really is simply recorded very near to a medium size plastic clock.

The sound of closing an empty small tupperdose

Closing an old door.

At the evening, the "Jardin du Luxembourg", in Paris, closes. And stroll the guardians to push out the visitors

coffee grinder

Adding coins to an empty metallic piggy bank

Adding coins to an empty wooden piggy bank

Thanks to all enthusiastic listeners for more than 25000 downloads.

Reminds me of old black and white Sci-Fi movies - the sound of hovering U.F.O.s - alien flying saucers

A synthesized sound that was created for a spring. The opening of a "jack in the box", when the head pops out.
I guess its good for comic magic tricks, vanishing, or appearing or opening of things.

This sound in reverse
comic_spring_up_or_magic_trick.mp3

A 4 minute ride on a train from one station to the next. Use good headphones, close your eyes, and it feels like you"re moving - This sound has great impact on me.

Beginning to copy a CD to burn it afterwards. It sounds like the device is not properly fixed. That noise is worrying.

Finishing to copy a CD to burn it afterwards. It sounds like the device is not properly fixed. The CD-recorder opens at the end.

In the middle of copying a CD to burn it afterwards. It sounds like the device is not properly fixed.

Fast copy-typing on chunky-keyed wireless PC keyboard. London, May 2008

At the corner of a sheep field; a ewe calls to a lamb; birdsong.

The ambient night noise of a common Taiwanese village.

Cracking peanuts.
Lots of room reverb unfortunatly.

Moving the thumb over a small metal brush used to groom cats.

Creaking Wood. Like opening a casket or hamper / basket. In any case a rather small and light creaking object. It"s not a heavy strong trunk.

Old oak swivel chair. Yes, this is where I sit to record audiobooks. I try to sit very still.

Grinding a bunch of pistachio husks in my fist. Sounds like eating something crunchy or almost unedible.

Perhaps a excited, cute sound of a small cartoon beast.

Cute machine sound, if you ask me.

The sound the german ALDI Bottle Shredder makes when you are done and press the button for the bottle mortage receipt.

Putting some cutlery on the table.

cutting just-washed beet greens.

Various cymbal sounds, using a pair of Sabian 16" cymbals.
Produced for a LibriVox project.

In the start, the sound of a videotape machine being turned on, then the sound of my television being turned on and off, and then a relatively long sound of a danish documentary about the sixities" mu

In the RER (the parisian regional subway), in august 2007

Twanging / Strumming a bow string. The bow is a handmade childs toy and very loose, so it"s a low twang.

Dial-up connection via a Belgian phone line.

Dial-up connection failing (Belgian phone line).

Turning a little reading flashlight on and off. Switch on, switch off.

It"s very rhythmic and soothing.

This recording of the dishwashers end of the washing cycle is strongly shortened. I cut out long passages of dead air because it is resting and heating.

our dog tapping its tail because of me sticking that recorder so close to its face.

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Opening a wooden door that has a metal handle. The metal handle creaks.

A douzen german kids hanging out on a sad playground between cheap multi-family flats. Can"t say playing - they have quite some aggressive topics going on.

Dove cooing, recorded 30th april 2008.

3 times the opening of a modern, year 2005 dishwashers door. The dishwasher works fine just its door makes this aweful jarring noise. Not that i open it intentionally slow to make this sound.

electric hammer drill, drilling brick

Pouring water in a glass and drinking.

braun drip coffeemaker dripping, with sleet hitting window in the background. recording with USB mic into macbookpro.

Train Motor on Stop on the tracks / platform. Loud buzzing machine sound. Could as well be a washing machine.

dropping various objects to create a clatter, breaking noise-02
created for a LibriVox project

Dropping lentils into a plastic tub.
The file consists of two different recordings. The first sound pricklier and closer. The second (after about the half of the file) more particles drop.

dropping various objects to create a clatter, breaking noise

A stapler falls of the cluttered desk onto the wooden (Laminat) floor.

Some drunk germans in the bar next door.

Disturbing party sounds from the neighbors.

Burning dry grass from the garden in an old open fireplace.

squeezing the last sound from the circuits of a hacked, bent and broken toy keyboard.

A synthesized noise that sounds like earthquake effects from films or games.
Created by changing the pitch of a generated noise.

The title is self-explanatory.

Opening and eating a foil bag of crunchy potato/cereal snacks. (They sound better than they tasted.)

Rustling with a bag of snacks. Eating, crunching snacks.

sound of an electric hand drill, drilling into wood

electric kettle doing its duty. There is a Gastherme working in the background.
Normalized (-1 dB), Freq: 20Hz - 16 KHz, the Zoom H2 seems to record only up to 16KHz in mp3-Mode

Electric pencil sharpener

Sorry that the waveform is clipped.

With the microphone held close to the computer, this electronic sound was generated after a few seconds.

small glass elevator door

Elevator doors closing. Shut.
Elevator starts and runs, comes to a stop,
Doors opening.

Syringe filled with water (5ml, I think) quickly emptied in a plastic glass of water

Syringe filled with water (5ml, I think) slowly emptied in a plastic glass of water

Sounds like a sci-fi energy barrier to me.
Recorded on a kitchen radio, short wave frequency.

reminds me of a sound from starwars episode 1.
It"s recorded on a kitchen radio and then bandpassed.

A small number of each kind of coin is heard clinking -- 1ps, 2ps, 5ps, 10ps. Didn't have enough 20ps or 50ps ...

Breville espresso machine making a double espresso.

In between recording two sentences.

Proud daddy me. :)

It"s a calm family evening. Tthe cutie will soon have to go to bed but it"s in a good, even and a very communicative mood.

Has a perfect adoring "MAMA!" (german for mommy).

Some stereotypically "evil-sounding" laughs.

This is an interesting sound effect I got messing around playing a harmonica. It was done sort of by sliding the harmonica back and forth while playing.

Letting water into sink. Various strenghts of the tap water flow.

Party Festival Concert People Crowd Walla, German

Just me clicking my fingers a few times

A four minute sample of the usual fireworks heard in an average Dutch town during the first 40 minutes or so of the new year.

A second sample of the usual fireworks heard in an average Dutch town during the first 40 minutes or so of the new year.

A bit of the fireworks in Düsseldorf, Germany, 2.June.2007.

I was tapping a pen, increased the bass, lowered the pitch and added echo to it, and it now it sort of reminds me of simulated fireworks.

One act of the great japanese Fireworks played in Düsseldorf, Germany, 2.June.2007.
One million visitors are spread all along the Rhine and on the bridges.

Setting the microphone"s stand at a proper hight.

Closing a hopper window that hinges at the bottom

Opening a hopper window that hinges at the bottom

Rag Fair, Jumble / flea market.

Stone age, working with flint stone. Poor quality, recorded with mobile phone.

Flute, lonely, sad

Flute, lonely, sad

Flute, lonely, sad

Two pieces of silvery plastic food wrapper being crumpled and pounded on.

Walking slowly on wet stoney forest track

Walking faster then slower on wet stoney forest track

Walking on wet leaves on forest track

Running on wet stoney forest track

The fountain of the "Place de la Trinité", in Toulouse (France)

While walking down a forgotten forest trail I hear the sound of a frog and a few birds of the afternoon hour.

Gabbling of a two month old baby. First time it did this continous "communication" actually.

garbage disposal, garburator

Sunny afternoon, gentle breeze, the wind was blowing on the mic with birds singing in the garden.

May 27, 2007 - Church of Christ the King (1927), Leverkusen, Germany.

May 27, 2007 - Church of Christ the King (1927), Leverkusen, Germany.

German march band of the cities rifle club.
Parading through the streets in Leverkusen, Germany, May2007.

Noises made by a boat, when getting set to leave a wharf.
And people talking.

Closing the hopper window, moving the mic on its stand and chatting with a friend on the internet.

Opening a hopper window, putting the microphone on its stand next to it. And... Thunder! :)

Nice droning gong. Played in different ways with my finger.

It"s no gong, it"s our basement stairways handrail, but who cares.

I grind and tap a couple of stones against each other and against the microphone.

crunching a Sack full of cherry stones

abstract synthesized chuggling grumping sound.
dry synthi clattering.

abstract fluttering clattering bubbly sound.

Playing with the sound-editor: a synthesized something like jarring.
I call it "cronking". :)
It"s a kind of grumpy, morose, grouchy sound.

A group of people was talking in the room next door.

A group of people was talking next door.

A group of people was talking in the room next door.

Herring Gull (Larus Argentatus) Long Island USA September 1999

Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) Damariscotta Falls, Maine USA, April 1998

Seagulls above the streets of a seaside town, at dawn.

Simulated gunshots made with Audacity (and popped balloons) for a LibriVox project

A gutter in a raining day

light hammering sound

heavier hammering sound, created for a LibriVox project

Hanging the washing.

A melodic Happy Birthday Card.
Unfortunatly recorded in public so a lot of people noise / walla in the background.

A couple of hardcover books dropped onto a wood floor.

harmonica playing

harmonica

harmonica

harmonica playing

harmonica playing

harmonica

harmonica

Recording of a harmonica being played

harmonica

Having a shower and applying baby oil (yes, baby oil. Very good for moisturizing one"s skin quickly and efficiently).

Fast heartbeat (150 bpm) recorded after a bit of exercise. Location: mitral valve.

Breathing heavily while sleeping.
Or is it snoring?

Breathing heavily while sleeping.
Or is it snoring?

Breathing heavily while sleeping.

Helicopter flying over lake, while on a boat (hence the voices).

Helicopter flying by over a quiet city"s neighbourhood.

Helicopter flying over a quiet city neighbourhood.

A hen clucks loudly and rhythmically to announce she"s laid an egg.

35 chickens fly out of their coop when the door is opened in the morning.

Perhaps 30 goats of all ages comming to the fence in a wildlife park. They are expecting to be fed.

The occasional sheep steps in with its dominant voice from the other pen behind.

Recorded in a high school cafeteria, Sept 15/08. Very noisy! Audio taken from a hand held video recording using Audacity.

Highway, Freeway, Motorway from above the Bridge, standing in full center between the four lines. Two lines going to, the other two going fro. Pointing the mic down to the freeway.

The bridge is about 15 meters above the highway / freeway /motorway.

Several sounds of a long 2 meter pole of wood when hitting it.
Each short little sounds can be used as single.

Trying to relax a bit.

A close-up recording of a hummel bee fertilizing flowers in our garden in Denmark.
Might be some distant noise from a lawn mower. Enjoy

open railway station elevator going one story
glass shaft
sliding doors
hydraulic arm stems it up and down
neon lights inside

Recording the transformator motor drive aggregator or whatever of a hydraulic lift pushing a platform up

iced tea sloshing in a glass

Indoor swimming pool - small childrens pool.

Indoor swimming pool - whole hall.

Canon S6300 A3 Printer. Turned on and off.
No printing sound - Just getting ready.

Opening fridge - inside of Refrigerator - closing fridge.

This is my 5 lb. long hair chihuahua, Jem, howling because she is stuck at the top of our loft stairs and wants down, NOW!!!

A kettle, which is not very loud (I think it has a damper on the whistle).

Kids in a church next door, as just about every Saturday morning.

Two recordings of our kitchen sink draining the water.

This is my son putting the clean dishes away!

Knock Knock Knock on Wood / Door. 3 versions.

A funfair in Toulouse, France / Une fête foraine à Toulouse, France, in september 2008

The fountain and the bells of the Saint-Etienne Cathedral Plaza, in Toulouse (France), at nine O Clock in the evening

actually shoelaces of my walking boots

Checking the input volume.

Copy-typing on a laptop/notebook computer on a wooden desk, mic about 6 inches from keyboard, raw recording. Some birdsong in background. London, May 2008

Recording a story with a character"s description that made me laugh.

While recording a funny story, back in September 2007.

Back in September 2007, laughing and clearing one"s throat while recording a funny story.

Short laughter.
Old school bell ringing.

30th May, 2007.

A Musical Box playing the Old Children Song "Le Roi Dagobert", in a street, in Toulouse, France :

The words begin with :
Le bon roi Dagobert
A mis sa culotte à l"envers.

An automatic hot drinks distributor,at the office (this kind of machine where you get coffee, chocolate, tea, soups, i tutti quanti)

Le marché d"Aligre, in Paris

The bells of the church Saint-Exupere, in Toulouse, France

Opening a box of matches, grabbing a match and lighting it.

popping sound made with mouth

robot chatter

took a small fan, put my fingers to it, heavily noisecleaned it and used a highpass.

Picking up a dictionary, flipping through it until one gets to the word one was looking for. Reading. Closing the book and putting it back on the table.

cuddly toy wound up clock. This wound up clock looks like a fluffy cloth bunny and has a wire to pull to wind up the chiming melody. Usually hangs at the bedside of a baby crib.

Melody is Johannes Brahms, op.49, Nr 4

5x5cm wound up clock. This wound up clock is round and has a hook and can be used to let a wind mobile or another toy spin while playing the chime.

Disarticulate "speech" while recording.

This is another recording session done with video game fx in mind, namely player jumping/pain sounds.

A set of strained/pained human grunts, recorded with video game sound fx in mind.

I attempt to bleat like a goat or sheep, not very well IMO.

I cough, deliberately.

Here I am grunting in imitation of a pig.

This is me imitating a wolf howl. IMO sounds too obviously human but make of it what you will.

German march band of the local rifle club playing.
May, 2007 in Leverkusen, Germany

German march band of the local rifle club playing.
May, 2007 in Leverkusen, Germany

Mostly brass players the snare drums.

A medium sized rooster, surrounded by clucking hens, crows.

Disarticulate "speech" while recording.

Played and fiddled with the sound-editor until stumbled over this interim result. A rythm with some melody to it.

Short melody of a swaying vibrating synth pad.

The ovens door springs open.

metal cabinet / cupboard for the fuses in the cellar. it"s about a meter wide and painted.

This is an old (40 years) camera tripod with brass metal legs that fold into one another in 3 sections each. Compared to modern plastik tripods it looks a little steampunk.

I make a bunch of percussion-type sounds by hitting a metal pot and its lid.

various sounds of a turnable knob on an oven.

Pushing button on the microwave,
Turning it on,
microwave heats and pauses,
it finishes with 3 beeps,
opening it,
taking the dish out,
closing it.

Slotmachine Rotamint Mint gameplay cycle

human voice imitating a pig

mixing spices in a small ceramic bowl, with a metal spoon.

Disarticulate "sound" while recording.

Pe-Pe-Peck, Pe-Pe-Peck, Pe-Pe-Peck...

Applying moisturizer by rubbing hands, face then hands again.

I do a variety of growls, somewhat of a grab-bag.

Some deep, guttural growls.

A small autocycle drives by on a forest trail - birds are singing on a sunny day. Heavy stereo effect, panning from right to left.

More cymbal sounds, using a pair of Sabian 16" cymbals.

Motorbike passing by.

Motorbike passing by.
People around.

Motorbike passing by.
People around.

Motorbike passing by.

A set of percussion-type mouth sounds.

Using a finger to make my mouth/cheek "pop".

Changing the microphone"s position while recording.

The next door neighbour was mowing his lawn.
And there were some building noises around.

A little 5x3x4cm box with a crank plays this little tune from Puccini"s - "La Boheme".

A noisy aquarium

A few people ohhhhing and ahhhing.

Oil boiling in an electric fryer.

Sounds of an old hardback book -- pages being turned, riffled / flicked and the book being shut.

Ringing an old school bell.

Ringing an old school bell.

Ringing an old school bell.

Ringing an old school bell.

Ringing an old school bell.

Various sounds on a pebble beach. A stone thrown into the water; walking on the pebbles; the waves lapping. A motor boat in the distance.

Opening a metallic door.

Opening an almost empty box of chocolates, taking out the layers of paper and aluminium-likefoil.

Pulling a straw from an aerosol can. Sounds like opening a can or something.

A Street Organ (un orgue de Barbarie) in the parisian streets, in may 2007

Reacting while making a phone call not getting through.

The sound behind the sound of music: An operating industrial shrink-wrapping packaging machine for compact discs.

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The sound behind the sound of music: An operating industrial shrink-wrapping packaging machine for compact discs.

Photos: www.virb.com/marcuskuerten

The sound behind the sound of music: An operating industrial shrink-wrapping packaging machine for compact discs.

Photos: www.virb.com/marcuskuerten

Pulling packingtape from the roll.

Somewhat humming or singing while flipping through a book.

Not managing to pronounce a word: saying pah does help.

Metal paper clips being fiddled with, and dropped into a drawer.

Some parrots in the "Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes", in Paris

Part of a fireworks. Standing pretty far away.

When you"re baking 4 carrot cakes in a day, the carrot peeler is a necessary and usefull tool. Besides, it sounds cool! So this is me, peeling a carrot.

Peeling an orange by scoring the skin into segments with a knife.

Person writing on a single page of paper against a wooden desk with a mechanical pencil

People walking into a church and seating before mass begins. People are hushed and silent. Steps, rustling of clothes, whispering etc. with church reverb.

pepper grinder, grinding pepper.

Hitting the piano uncontrolled with the underarms.
Sound consists of 4 hits.

nondescript. abstract.
I am not even sure if i was picking something up. I found it inside this long recording: even_tempered_baby_14_months_communicative

"Picooz" light weight radio controlled indoor Helicopter Toy.
180x40x72mm and actually hovers through the room. Great fun!

A bus stops. The bus breaks shriek.
Sound is heavily filtered from traffic noise.

Sound created by a piezoelectric klaxon. Distorted and pitch shifted.

Making sounds.

The sound of ping-pong, in Paris, june 2008

Plane flying over a quiet city neighbourhood.
Kitchen noises.
Birds singing.

Plastic bag being folded

3 Recordings of the ALDI plastic bottle shredder. You put the plastic bottles in a whole and it shreds them into a container on the other side of the wall (which you can"t see).

Small hollow plastic object clattering. Perhaps a small box. Could be a screw top too.

I crumple, pound on, and blow through a piece of plastic wrapping.

The crackling of a record.
Plattenknistern. 24 sec

Doesn"t sound so much as a car. But it"s the turning of the ignition key. Car is then doing something to get ready.

tinkering with the soundeditor suddenly had this rythmic layered "plinking" ringing sound loop.

Pocket Camera opening lense-protector and extending zoom-lense.
Some autofocus servo working.
Then retracting of zoom lense and shutting again.

Heavily noisecleaned.

Playing with bubble wrap, popping some bubbles. Crackling and rustling with the plastic.

I popped the lid of my lip balm and it made this neat sound.

Making sounds.

Pouring a glass of sweet iced tea. Includes putting ice in the glass.

Pouring lentils from my hands or a cup into a plastic tub.
6 different sounds of pouring the particles.

Pouring chilled white wine from its bottle into a tumbler (I had no clean wine-glasses handy!)

Sitting in the garden on a sunny Sunday afternoon, in the Belgian countryside, a propeller plane flies by, while birds keep singing.

Taking a break while recording.

Sound experiment.
Abstract wave pattern. For background fills in audio-visual media.
Oscillating, vibrating, pulsating hum, humming.

Small desinfectant pump spray bottle.

This sound supplied by Bertie Wooster (one of my cats).

laying down a light thin metal object onto the hard kitchen table - a tin lid.

Kitchen Radio, Germany

Raining cats and dogs.

A typical English summer day ... the sound of rain lashing against the window pane and gusts of wind blowing at gale-force straight off the sea.

Rain and thunder.

Rain on a veranda roof and thunder.

Rain, thunder and birds singing.

Rain and thunder while walking around, sneezing,...
And an ambulance passing by.

Walking around,... while recording rain and thunder.

rainstick

Like curtain cord, or those metal pellet cords in basins.
This was recorded in pulling the ragged metal tube of a shower over various edges.

Also sounds like frapping or winding something.

A photocopied, form rejection letter, addressed: "Dear Author..." received two-and-a-half years after the author submitted his novel to the publishing house, being cut up into many pieces, by a pair o

Recorded in a typical german chinese restaurant of mid size. This is not a fancy restaurant...it"s standart. The restuarant is crowded with all kinds of people.

Retractable pen being clicked in and out. The other noises are from it accidentally bumping the mic a few times.

Taking the watch of the wrist, rewinding it and putting it back on.

NB: the volume is a bit low.

Dragging a rope over stone floor which has a light metal object fixed to it"s end.

Plinging ringin rythm synthie abstract.
Same as this but slower: plinking_rythm_loop.mp3

Rolling a baby rattle in front of the mic on a wooden floor.

Grinding on a ancient roman mill. Poor quality, recorded with mobile phone.

High pitched squeaking of two rubber objects.
Dragging rubber.

Twittering birds near a stretch of running water.

Closing Russian dolls (5)

Opening Russian dolls (5)

The bells of the parisian church Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St-Gervais-et-St-Protais_Church

sauteing leeks in olive oil in a stainless steel frying pan.

Pulling a ragged metal tube over a wooden edge.
Sounds a bit like sawing or winding something up / a winch?

Scratching one"s head far from then close to the microphone.

Using a metal bristled hair brush for cats. Using the hard and the soft side. Scrubbing it with various strenghts and patterns on my underarms and hands for various effects.

The sea, quiet (without waves) on the rocks, near the the harbour (the village) in island Porquerolles, in the south of France, august 2007

Sewing on an older machine (1980s maybe? Pre-computerized). I"m not a good sewer, so it starts and stops.

Shaking a half full bottle of gel.

Shaking a aerosol can with few liquid left in it. It is an air duster.

Recording a small sized "wild" river from above a bridge. Runs through a german not very dense forest. It"s roughly a meter deep and 20 meters across perhaps.

Pointing / sharpening a Pencil or Crayon.

Making sounds.

Shopping Mall in Leverkusen, Germany.
Near a cafe, lots of people talking.
The mic (me) is walking through the mall a bit.

City passage in Leverkusen, Germany.
A woman in high heels walking by.
A saxophone player playing some music.
People murmuring.

Shopping Mall in Leverkusen, Germany.
People sitting in a snack area. Coffee bar. Some dishes clattering.

A few short, out-of-breath coughs that I made unintentionally during one of my recordings.

climbing the stairs in a small hallway,
wearing heavy gear,
a dog barks

Turning on and off the shower.

This is the machine hum of a plastik-bottle shredder to be found in convenience stores. I expect that something inside is rotating pretty fast that shreds the bottles you put into it.

Shrieks i made pressing my throat muscles shut yet pulling air in hard. Hard to explain.

Silvester fireworks 2007/08 - a street in germany

Silvester Fireworks from the Street 04 - Rest - whizzers and drainage crackers

Silvester fireworks 2007/08 - PART 02 - firing the cool stuff

Silvester fireworks 2007/08 - PART 03 - towards end

Features a nice screamer a holow *boomp* or *fump* in a canal drain and more different cracker explosions.

Silvester after midnight in Berlin, Weinbergspark, Fireworks.

Recorded with ZoomH2 and Ohrwurm Audio Microphones, MP3, 320kbps

A siren type sound. I am not sure if this was really a siren or a bird chirping that resembled a siren. Either way, it"s a pretty interesting little bit of audio.

Some gross saliva-laden gurgles and retches.

Sound like a plastic box of small nails.

Shaking a canister of distilled water - almost empty.

Played and fiddled with the sound-editor until suddenly i had this. A rythm with clicks and a stomping bass.

Fireworks audience at the rhine in Düsseldorf, Summer2007.

nose hair cutter
sounds like a drill, drilling.

A handful of pebbles scattered on concrete

A bantam Sebright rooster crows, while standing in a crowd of clucking hens.

I was recording something completely different when the smoke alarm went off. So, makin" lemonade, and uploading it here!

Snapping a light small piece of pine wood.

young female sneezing

Sneeze.

A very low snoring. Not like heavy snoring with floppy fluttering tissues of the throat, but a light blockage of the air passage.

Sound of the water in a small snow globe as it"s being shaken.

Sound of the water in a small snow globe as it"s quickly turned around.

Whistling softly over the microphone.

Some softcover books dropped on a wood floor.

Little baby bell rattle toy.

I tried to shake it quietly and randomly for an ongoing soothing *plinkering* ambience, like a wind chime.

Noisecleaned with soundforge.

Sound in an airplane with the microphone close to the computer.

Sound in an airplane with the microphone away from the computer.

Few sounds of a blown bottle.

A 20 centimeter long splinter of dry wood falls on the hard ground.

plang pleng pling
playing on the spokes of a bike.

Opening a springlocked wooden cellar door and closing it again.

Opening and closing a squeaky door.

sitting down, fetching seatbelt, fasten seat-belt, keys, turning keys, ignition, loosen break, change gear, turn steering wheel, drive back, change gear to go, drive forward, use winker.

Narrow gauge 0-4-0 steam engine at Huntsville ON, chuffing up a grade, recorded Sept.6, 2008 by David Lawrence. Audio taken from a hand held video recording using Audacity.

sticky tape pulled from dispenser, cut off and applied

It"s a plastic tub full of lentils (those lense shaped peas?) in which i scoop up hands full of lentils and let them drop again. The lentils are very smooth to the touch.

Grinding on a stone age mill. Poor quality, recorded with mobile phone.

Not as great quality because it was done on my ZenV, but this is what it sounded like outside in Keene NH tonight. Pretty stormy, and it sounds like someone got into an accident.

Recorded by "Jc" Guan from Librivox, May2007. I upload it in his name.

Street Musician playing a Violin. Pedestrians walking past in an innercity shopping street. Leverkusen, Germany.
The musician is using a small radio for some added melody.
High heels passing by.

People screaming "Kamelle!" to the parading Bands and Wagons. From the Parade they get trown a shower of sweets and flowers. Kids of course are having their time.

Recorded from a second story window down to the streets.

A street parade in Northrhinewestfalia, Germany accompanied by a march band. This is customary for the Karneval.

Striking a bell in 4 times different manner. The bell is aprx. 13cm in diameter and 15cm high and i think of bronze.

A Street Students Fanfare playing in the Place Saint-Germain des Prés, in Paris, in may 2007

Sunday, 4th May 2008 5pm.

Sunday, 4th May 2008 5.05pm.

Sunday, 4th May 2008 5.10pm. English city-by-the-sea noises: cars, vans & mopeds driving in the street outside, seagulls calling, wood pigeons cooing, distant birdsong (thrushes?) and twittering.

The beeping of an electronic scanner at the cash register checkout of a supermarket.
People in the background. Packing of bought stuff.

Two separate table saw cuts, with the power down after each cut.
created for a LibriVox project

Switching on a 30 centimeter table ventilator, then into higher gear, then off.

*tack tack tack*
hitting on a small plastic box.

tearing mint leaves.

It originates in a different noise but it does sound characteristic for tearing something off.

A fountain, rue Bonaparte, in Paris, in may 2008

Sighing.

Thunder and rain on a veranda.

Summer in Germany. :) I put the mic on our balcony just in time for the storm to start.

Summer in Germany. :) I put the mic on our balcony just in time for the storm to start.

Summer in Germany. :) I put the mic on our balcony just in time for the storm to start.

Summer in Germany. :) I put the mic on our balcony just in time for the storm to start.

I recorded a steel coffee pot. struck by a metal knife. The Zoom H2 was placed in the empty coffee pot. Recorded at 48KHz 24bit 4-Way surround. mixed down to Stereo.

Experimental collage using the sound ting. No other sounds used.

320 kbyte/sec

My toilet has two flush settings - half and full - for water economy. This is the half-flush and cistern refill.

Tonedialing Phone, Germany,
carrier message: "Kein Anschluss unter dieser Nummer" - "No connection with this number"

eeeek! The grinding of teeth.

Toy phone. Baby toy with large buttons to press. Looks like a house. The telephone receiver and dials are build into the roof. :)

This time the battery is so empty, all sounds are gone weird.

Toy phone. Baby toy with large buttons to press. Looks like a house. The telephone receiver and dials are build into the roof. :)

Toy phone. Baby toy. The same toy as this:
toy_phone_line_busy

Toy fire brigade car with a cheesy siren.

The train were going through the railway station, down a hill, in a quiet neighbourhood, at night.

NB: The volume is pretty low.

Public transportation in Cologne, Germany.
Opening doors, giving warning signal and shutting again.

My tummy grumbling first thing in the morning. Gurgling.

Turning a page in a hard-cover book. Recorded using a Nexxtech headset boom mic. The pitch was lowered by about two semitones, and a low-pass filter applied.

Strange chirping, twittering, tickling, clicking sounds from air getting sucked through a small amount of water.
The sound of blebs? Dunno the right word.

Baby rattle toy
A small plastic moon filled with plastic pellets. I tried to shake it quietly and "randomly" for an ongoing uneasy ambience.

Noisecleaned with soundforge.