Imissmybar.com is an interactive website that allows you to use a series of sliders to recreate the ambient noise of your favorite bar. Well, for relatively boring, traditional bars at least. There was no slider for the amount of video games and pinball machines being played or shots being taken
These are two videos of South Korean a cappella group Maytree performing Windows and iPhone sound effects with nothing but their mouths. Most impressive. For reference, when I was in business school my classmates and I once passed an egg down the line using nothing but spoons in our mouths.
This is a video of musician Alex Melton reimagining Barenaked Ladies’ 1998 hit ‘One Week’ as a Blink-182 song. It’s pretty spot-on. As a matter of fact, I’m not convinced that isn’t Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus just wearing an Alex Melton costume. And even if it’s not, with all the
Music: it’s all around us. Except when my roommate sings in the shower, that sounds like gravel in a blender. One time I took him to karaoke and the first song he sung they cut the music and kicked us both out, me just for bringing him. This is a
Music: it’s all around us. Except in an airport bathroom, those are just farts. This is a video of musician Nicolas Bras building a four and a half octave PVC percussion instrument to recreate the sound of popping a finger out of your cheek or the top of a bottle,
Because nothing but the absolute hardest hitting news today (and every day), this is a video from a Chicago parking garage (level 3) door that, according to uploader Mr. King, does an impression of Miles Davis from his 1970 album Bitches Brew. That is very specific. I didn’t expect much,
This is a video of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski’s Etude in B-flat minor for piano being performed instead on glass harp by Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec and theremin by Grégoire Blanc. It’s got a real other-worldly sound to it, like the sort of thing you’d expect to hear when being
Have you ever wondered what the dial-up modem handshake sound LOOKS like? Just how high were you? Edibles? Maybe next time wait an hour before eating the rest. This is the dial-up modem sound presented in spectrogram form. Sure brings back memories, doesn’t it? MOM! MOM HANG UP THE PHONE.