Have you ever wondered about those automated voice recording you get when you call big companies? The ones that always involve being put on hold for extended periods of time, with cheery muzac playing in the background as you are directed to yet another phone tree telling you to press 1 for such and such department? The ones that sometimes drop your call, for no reason whatsoever? The ones where you aren't quite sure if its even a recording of a real person, because they are so robotic and cheerful?

me neither.

production notes and citations:
Written, recorded, and edited by Bonney Ruhl. Everything was recorded on my phone, as I liked the ambient effect it provided and thought it suited the nature of my project. Sound effects used were a dial tone (US), dial-up internet, ambient noise in the music building basement hallways (recorded by my friend), TV static and radio static. The jingle used is actually music that was used in a numbers station, which I thought was fittingly eerie.  You can learn more about the project (and numbers stations) here: https://archive.org/details/ird059

Willterminus, The Sound of Dial Up Internet, YouTube video, 0:29, Nov 9 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
The Conet Project, 1_01: Swedish Rhapsody, YouTube video, 4:17, Jan 19 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQUD3IMbb4&list=PL4NIgK0pabRVlhs4yzVG8Co7J8en-nht3&index=1
*RingTones, Dial Tone Sound Effect, YouTube video, 0:13, March 16 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wfdq_3F9VA
Airborne Sound, TV static sound effect, YouTube video, 0:10, April 28 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rVt2b80L-A
ParadoxMirror, Radio Static Sound Effect, YouTube video, 1:03, June 26 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wffIdh0CZWs&t=2s

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