Failing hard drive sounds

These are some typical sounds we hear in our data recovery lab. If your hard drive makes noises like these and you are still able to access your files - backup immediately.

Noise pollution in Atlanta 1974

60 Years of the Wilhelm Scream

Even if you don’t know it by name, chances are you’ve hear the Wilhelm Scream more than once! A film/television/video game stock sound effect first used in the ’51 Western film Distant Drums (during a fatal alligator attack scene), its use has continued to grow in popularity over time. At this point, the Wilhelm Scream’s got to be of the most persistent in-jokes in pop culture history. We should all buy Ben Burtt a drink; he’s the brilliant sound designer who got into the habit of sneaking Wilhelm into various action flicks he was working on, like Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

Early Speech Synthesizer

Sound Map of the Paiva River

A collaborative sound map of one of the cleanest rivers in Europe: the Paiva river which runs in northern Portugal and has its mouth in the Douro river.

the speech accent archive

The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

Marie Osmond performs Hugo Ball

All Chemix Radio ‘Encoded Message / Radio Rabotnik’

Two works by Willem de Riddder

Bob Fass documentary

Influential radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM dial by developing a patchwork of music, politics, comedy and reports from the street, effectively creating free-form radio. For nearly 50 years, Fass has been heard at midnight on listener-sponsored station WBAI, broadcast out of New York City. Radio Unnameable documents Bob Fass’s eventful and controversial career, his involvement with some of the most gripping cultural movements of our time, while placing his story in a larger context of the struggle to keep free expression on the airwaves.