#AudioMo day 19:

Because the thing I wanted to post today didn't work out, I'll throw this here instead.

In late July of 2016, I was visiting my parents. They were getting ready for a move, and thus, were about to toss a bunch of stuff, including a bunch of old hard drives. The newest of these was probably 10 or 20GB, and the oldest was 80MB. Most of them didn't calibrate.

So, just because I could, I recorded exactly 30 seconds of each hard drive being powered on, regardless if it calibrated or not, then stacked them all. Result is this clicky clacky thing I called "a Bad Day in the Server Room."

I can't find the original multi-track project, so I am not sure how many hard drives are featured in this recording. I'm pretty sure it is at least 15. Have fun trying to count them all.

This was recorded with a Zoom H6 and it's X/Y microphones.

#AudioMo 18:

This is a silly sequence thing I did in the early morning hours of October 11, 2015, using an Arturia Microbrute and a Korg ARP Odyssey, both analog sequencers, in combination with a Digitech Studio Quad IV processor. I made a very basic sequence using the Microbrute's onboard step sequencer, connected the CV pitch and gate outputs from the Microbrute to the Odyssey, turned on the sequencer, then just played with a bunch of sliders and knobs, including filters, envelopes, effects sends, panning and tempo, all while this simple sequence that really seems to enjoy moving around in fourths continues.

It's nothing that was ever meant to be anything real. Just me messing around on a boring Sunday morning.

#AudioMo day 17: the Low Effort Noise Machine.

On January 3, 2025, I walked around my parents house with my Soma Labs Ether connected to a digital recorder, and captured about 17 minutes of electronic noises. I then divided that audio into 8 equal length tracks, and went wild with effects, mostly filters, panning, and other LFO-driven stuff. The result is 2 minutes and 9 seconds of what I call the low effort noise machine.

Don't click this if weird buzzy things freak you out.

#AudioMo Day 17: One of the more ridiculous things I've ever posted.
I call it 'A Box Of Numpty.'

This message is threaded, and the original message contains the text I wrote, which I've now had voiced by #ElevenLabs new Alpha model. You can add special tags to the text, so the audio becomes more natural-sounding apparently.
Given that I think a certain person is nothing but an AI hallucination anyway, I thought I'd ask another AI (Google Gemma3 in this case) to extend my writings further, which I did. I then used a voice clone of me to have it read out, and well, this is the result. Somehow it seems fitting.
The original message contains all the text I wrote, and the voice clone reads that, plus the extended section.
Alt-text contains the new text written by Google Gemma 3.

#AudioMo day 15:

Here's a binaural recording I made while walking around a cassino when visiting Canada in August, 2019.

#AudioMo day 14:

On August 18. 2018. I took a Delta flight from Atlanta to New York City. During this flight, I plugged my Zoom H1N digital recorder directly into a headphone output at my seat, and recorded announcements from the flight deck during the entire flight, then edited out all the space between them.

#AudioMo day 15:

Remember when computers sounded like this?

For some reason, on August 6, 2007, I stuck my Zoom H4 in front of the old, even for the time, Compaq Deskpro Pentium III computer in my bedroom, which, at the time, was running FX Radio on Windows 2000. It had two hard drives, both Western Digital. The operating system was on a 10GB 5400 RPM drive, and the media was on a 30GB 7200 RPM drive.

#InspiredBySound - Rhodes Anthology Favourites & NKS Overview youtu.be/4m1mH7EArLk

In which I take you through my favourite sounds found within Rhodes Anthology from Rhodes Music.
We also skim through the NKS parameters so that if you wish to use it this way, you know what you can expect from the mapping.

I'm also treating this as my #AudioMo Day 15 post as well.

#InspiredBySound - Rhodes Anthology Favourites & NKS Overview

In this video I take you through my favourite sounds found in the Rhodes Anthology Plugin from Rhodes Music.We also take a look at the NKS mapping created by...

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#AudioMo Day 12 (because I haven't been bothering to actually label these with the day, for some reason:

On the late afternoon of August 5, 2010, we had quite a thunderstorm, during which, an ice cream van was driving around the neighborhood playing Christmas tunes. Someone didn't get the memo, I guess.

When it played 'Silent Night' during this very not silent thunderstorm, I kind of lost it. I can even be heard in this recording attempting to suppress my having lost it, before running away and closing the door, so I could bust out laughing somewhere else, and not mess up the recording.

This was produced with an Olympus DM-520 connected to an Audio Technica AT-822 single-point stereo microphone hanging out of a bathroom window. As I recall, the positioning of the microphone was not optimal, so I did some re-processing of the stereo image.

As the person who devised #AudioMo I’d love to know what suno slop is? Also there are no rules to #AudioMo dragonscave.space/@talon/11467…

Talon

2025-06-12 17:59:07

Can we please not put suno slop in audiomo?

#AudioMo day 9:

One day in 2007, I walked into my university's student union to discover one of the school jazz bands playing in the pit area. Turns out this was a regular occurrence every Thursday at 1 PM. I, of course, had a recorder and mics in my backpack and quickly set them up, and made sure to do that as many times as I could for the next year or so.

Here's a tune called "Hoodle Doodle" as performed by the UNT 3 O'Clock Lab Band from February 15, 2007.

#AudioMo

This is one I posted a couple of years ago, but I've had new followers since then.

In March of 2010, I set up an always streaming set of microphones at my childhood home, then using an old, small form factor Pentium III desktop computer running Windows XP. In the late summer of 2014, I installed a similar setup at my New York apartment, this time using an old laptop running Windows 7.
In 2015, I switched to a Raspberry Pi 2 model B running Liquidsoap, added 24/7 archiving, and installed a second, nearly identical setup at the New York apartment.

I had to take the New York stream down when we moved five years ago, and my parents' have moved since then, but the stream there still exists.

What follows is a presentation highlighting some of the more unusual things these streaming setups recordedover a period between 2011 and 2020.

For those interested in such things, the live audio stream of my parents' back yard lives here:
stream.borris.me:8888/outside

#StroongeCast E38: Animal Encounters Of The Stroonge Kind... youtu.be/Zgzln4bK2Mk

In this episode we discuss all sorts of Stroonge animal encounters from our own experiences, and those submitted by you.
From a sneaky sneezing rat, to a late-night horse-encounter, to a squirrel squirreling itself away behind the radiator, it's all here.

Thanks to all the contributors that submitted stories for this episode.

Download: onj.me/media/stroongecast/38_-…
@MoonCat

I'm also including this as my #AudioMo Day 6 submission.

StroongeCast E38: Animal Encounters Of The Stroonge Kind...

Welcome to episode 38 of StroongeCast.In this episode we discuss all sorts of Stroonge animal encounters from our own experiences, and those submitted by you...

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#AudioMo day 5.

Here's a skit I made with ElevenLabs back in November 2023.

#AudioMo: Starting it off with either a potential copout for not being an actual post, or a convenient stash of free stuff, depending on your take.
Anyway, here's a dropbox folder of over 3.5 GB of free-to-use music that may end up powering some of your submissions this month, if you want them to. I update at least once a month under normal circumstances.

PS: You don't have to be taking part in AudioMo to use these, please be my guest either way.

dropbox.com/scl/fo/jgodxzpzf7s…

FreakyFwoofTracks

Shared with Dropbox

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#AudioMo

Last week for my birthday, I was sent a cheap 19-string Vixxnox Lyre Harp.
My current living situation doesn't allow me to make much noise in the house, so I took it out to the back yard, as today is a nice day, so I could record the sound of it, and also demonstrate my complete ineptitude at playing it.

This was recorded using a Zoom H6 Essential, using a lav microphone to pick up my voice, and the X/Y capsule to pick up everything else. I used two instances of Supertone Clear to isolate my voice on the lav, and mute my voice on the X/Y microphones, so I am always in the absolute center.

#AudioMo day 5: A Quick Look At The Nintendo Switch 2 TTS Accessibility youtu.be/xt5sPvaoshc

I've just gotten a hold of this console so I know nothing much yet, but I will learn more over the coming days and weeks.
This is a quick demo with me only having had access to it for about 30 minutes if that.
#Nintendo #Switch2 #ScreenReader #TTS #Accessibility

A Quick Look At The Nintendo Switch 2 TTS Accessibility

Reupload with fixed audio.Nintendo surprised me by releasing a console with any kind of screen-reader functionality, and I always said that if they released ...

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