Here's a free addendum to Unseen Noises: the Bonus Pack, a collection of electromagnetic recordings (3 GB @ 192/24). It contains new samples that are not part of the original collection. Listen to this 30s demo recorded at 192khz, followed by the same played back at 96 kHz and the last one at 48 kHz.

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Unseen Noises Bonus Pack - demo

Edit and mix: Matteo Milani (U.S.O.)
Interview credits: kboo.fm

A tribute to Gary Rydstrom

24-bit/48kHz Royalty-free Sound Design Collection

Hologram Room is the first bundle of the abstract Sound Design Collection produced by sound designer and composer Matteo Milani.
These two gigabytes of “ready to use” original sound elements are designed to help you sweetening and enhancing your sound production. The whole library is organized in eight main folders: Active Drones, Alarms, Blips, Buttons, Communications, Ignitions, Telemetries, Transitions. It provides a selection of out of this world drones and ambiences, futuristic sound effects and electronic tools.

Audio Format: Broadcast Wave Files (.wav)
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bit Depth: 24-bit
Size: 1.87 GB
Download size is 1.66 GB (compressed .zip archive)

Available on https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Hologram Room - vol.1 [USO001]

Sonic Screens - selection of environmental electroacoustic music.

The actual distributed version is rendered using U.S.O. Project’s custom binaural techniques for headphone listening only.

Recorded 29th October, 2010 @ O' - no profit organization, during Live!iXem 2010 Live!iXem 2010 - Edition VII
International festival of music, mixed media and experimental electronic art - Milan

Live mixing and spatialization by U.S.O. Project

U.S.O. Project, thanks to the collaboration of Electronic Music Foundation, accompanies the listener through a journey among different sound environments, characterized by an objective presence in the form of 'found sounds' and by a subjective element known as electroacoustic composition. The performance takes advantage of acousmatic performance practice called 'spatial diffusion', creating a seamless sound flow between different works from the following internationally renowned artists: 

1) 'A drop in the Bucket'
Gary di Benedetto

2) 'Aquaculture’
Jana Winderen
(Energy Field)

3) 'Pantha Rhei'
Karlheinz Essl

4) 'KyaKyaKahoon'
Jo Hutton

5) ‘Stati d'Acqua’
David Monacchi
(Eco-Acoustic Compositions)

6) ‘Persona'
Thoranna Bjornsdottir

7) ‘Water Emotion’
graphicalSound

8) ‘Nordfjorden Shore’
Natasha Barrett
(Trade Winds)

Sonic Screens - pt.1 (binaural)

Sonic Screens - selection of environmental electroacoustic music.

The actual distributed version is rendered using U.S.O. Project’s custom binaural techniques for headphone listening only.

Recorded 30th October, 2010 @ O' - no profit organization, during Live!iXem 2010 Live!iXem 2010 - Edition VII
International festival of music, mixed media and experimental electronic art - Milan

Live mixing and spatialization by U.S.O. Project

U.S.O. Project, thanks to the collaboration of Electronic Music Foundation, accompanies the listener through a journey among different sound environments, characterized by an objective presence in the form of 'found sounds' and by a subjective element known as electroacoustic composition. The performance takes advantage of acousmatic performance practice called 'spatial diffusion', creating a seamless sound flow between different works from the following internationally renowned artists: 

1) ‘End of shift’    
Walter Murch        
(THX 1138)

2) ‘Adagio 1’
Christian Zanesi
(Le paradoxe de la femme poisson)

3) ‘Beneath the Forest Floor’
Hildegard Westerkamp
(Transformations)

4) ‘Vox 5’
Trevor Wishart
(The Vox Cycle)

5) ‘Vatnajokull’
Chris Watson
(Weather Report)

6) ‘Presque Rien N°2, Ainsi Continue La Nuit Dans Ma Tête Multiple’
Luc Ferrari
(Presque Rien)

7) ‘XEH10013350’
U.S.O. Project

8) ‘Bewegungen nach entfernten Orten’
Christina Kubisch

9) 'Milano Fashion City'
Various Artists [*]

10) ‘03’
Fabio Orsi
(Winterreise)


[*] This piece is based upon the soundwalk along the neighborhood "Isola" in Milan, during the workshop 'Movement of acoustic images' by Alessandro Massobrio and Fabio Orsi

Sonic Screens - pt.2 (binaural)

Designed for sound designers with a taste for the supernatural, this library effortlessly bridges the realms of the living and the otherworldly. Whether for horror films, atmospheric games, or projects seeking the essence of spectral memories, Whispering Spirits offers a unique auditory experience that stands apart.

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Whispering Spirits [USO014]

Introducing “COSMIC CHARGES,” an innovative sound effects library meticulously developed by Matteo Milani at U.S.O.‘s headquarters. This collection represents a major advancement in our commitment to crafting distinctive audio assets that that reinvent our approach to sound design. “COSMIC CHARGES” uniquely specializes in tonal blasts and impacts, each thoughtfully created from the ground up to ensure unmatched creativity and originality in your projects.

Designed to enrich a variety of media, such as video games, films, TV series, and more, each sound in “COSMIC CHARGES” integrates musical elements, providing a unique sonic identity that can intensify emotional resonance, enhance dynamics, and add richness to your works.

Discover the features of “COSMIC CHARGES”:

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sound-library/cosmic-charges/

Cosmic Charges  [USO015]

Transmission Apparatus is Unidentified Sound Object’s new recombinant construction kit for creating a broad range of communication sounds, from real to “alien” broadcasting signals. The library contains more than 2 GB of data, delivered in 373 files of unique sound material, including radio samples, unintelligible voices and Kyma-synthesized noises.

Available on https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Transmission Apparatus [USO004]

3Dimensional Printing is the multicolored result of different recording sessions of a couple of 3D printers (the Sharebot NG – Next Generation and the DeltaWASP 20 40) at Fabb and at FabLab Milan between 2014 and 2015.
All the sounds were recorded directly as uncompressed .wav files through both a RME Fireface UCX and a Zoom H6 Portable Recorder.
Duration ranges vary from 1 to 5 minutes, with the most sonically interesting excerpts from full printing cycles. Lots of pattern and sequences are available for selection and transformation.
Five different transducers were chosen to capture all the sonic details of these mechanisms:
– C-SERIES pro contact microphones, hand-made by Jez Riley French;
– Barcus Berry 4000 Planar Wave System (Piezo crystal sensor+4000XL Piezo Preamp);
– Piezo Film Tab Contact Microphones by Cold Gold Audio;
– Custom Induction Coil Pick-up (also used to create the Unseen Noises collection);
– Zoom MSH-6 MS Capsule (the stereo image of the Mid-Side recordings is rendered as balanced stereo LR files).

Available on https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

3Dimensional Printing [USO005]

This small sound library contains all the original CPU fan and hard disk noises emitted by the following vintage Apple MACs, each with its own unique texture:

Power Macintosh 4400
Power Macintosh 6400
Power Macintosh 7200
Macintosh Classic
Macintosh Mac G4
Macintosh Mac LC 475

I recorded them a few years ago for a brilliant short movie by Alessio Fava called "Project Genesis". Here’s the movie and the (very short) article I wrote about it:

http://usoproject.blogspot.com/2013/02/project-genesis-sound-design-story.html

The material contains a lot of mechanical noises and different startup chimes, plus a lot of boot sequences with all the hard drives/fans spinning and whirring. I wandered around the chassis with a condenser microphone to find interesting spots for constantly evolving sound colours.
Induction coil pickups were also used to record the electromagnetic fields emitted by the computer components.

And one more thing:

Many thanks to Alessio Fava and Lorenza Negri for permission to use an original frame of the movie as the sound library cover!

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

ACM(E) - [USO006]

A filmic sound construction kit for teasers, trailers & promos

‘Warped Choir’ is the latest state-of-the-art sound effects library from U.S.O. which continues to cross the border between music and sound design.
Warped Choir provides a wide range of meticulously crafted stereo and 5.1 surround sound elements ready to be pumped in your trailer, video game or other audiovisual projects. It contains more than 200 massive dynamic impacts, transitions, soundscapes, epic vocal rises and whooshes, all designed from scratch using a choir concert recording as the unique waveform source in the Symbolic Sound Kyma workstation (thanks to La Coral Salvé - Laredo, Cantabria | www.coralsalve.com). When it comes to creating new musical ideas, video and sound editors, sound designers, but also composers, can find inspiration in this intriguing must-have collection.
Here is what you get in "Warped Choir":

Folders
Crescendo (37 items)
Ghostly (29 items)
Impacts (47 items)
Soundscapes (20 items)
Stingers (52 items)
Swells (34 items)
Raw Samples (28 items)

Comma-separated values file (.csv)
Excel spreadsheet (.xls)
License Agreement (.pdf)
Artwork - by BoombangDesign (.jpg)

Available in two flavours:

Stereo
Audio Format: Broadcast Wave Files (.wav)
Sample Rate: 96 kHz
Bit Depth: 24-bit
Download Size: 1.05 GB

Surround 5.1
(this archive contains both the stereo and the surround version)
Audio Format: Interleaved Broadcast Wave Files (.wav)
Track Layout: L, C, R, Ls, Rs, LFE (Pro Tools default)
Sample Rate: 96 kHz
Bit Depth: 24-bit
Download Size: 4.74 GB

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Warped Choir - [USO007]

24-bit/48kHz Royalty-free Sound Design Collection

Unseen Noises is the second sound effects bundle created by sound designer and composer Matteo Milani.
Electromagnetic informations are invisible and omnipresent. In every city, especially in the big ones, an infinite number of electromagnetic waves is hidden: we can't hear them, but they're everywhere! We explored this "invisible" noise pollution transducing electromagnetic fields into audio signals with a telephone pickup: it acts like a radio antenna for hum and weird electromagnetic noises.
We plugged it into a SONOSAX SX-R4 recorder, moving it close in to electrical devices - like a stethoscope - to locate interesting and curious sounds, just like LCD television, internet antennas, lighting systems, transformers, game consoles, tablet, electronic security systems, scanners, computers monitors and hard-drives, printers, navigation systems, fax machines...

Audio Format: Broadcast Wave Files (.wav)
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bit Depth: 24-bit
Size: 2.43 GB
Download size is 2.2 GB (compressed .zip archive)

Available on https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Unseen Noises [USO002]

Insectus is a special Ambisonics sfx library: it’s been in the works for more than a year. We’ve been through lot of experimentation in that time with different approaches regarding the best way to deliver this bizarre package of sounds. So what is it exactly? It’s not a ready-to-go ambience collection: instead, just think about the sound-designed material as a background sweetener. We’ve called it Insectus not only for its Latin roots, but also because it comes from the fusion of two word: Insect+Tinnitus. We used the higher octave of the spectrum in an odd way, mimicking insect vocalization and biophony sounds in Symbolic Sound Kyma by layering a lot of synthesised stream of small band of very high frequencies (hence the inspireful source name Tinnitus).
You’ll find 100 loopable variations of FOA FuMa/ambiX interleaved files (4 channels), with a duration of 30 seconds each.
Do you want to add a bit of mystery, depth, tension or peacefulness to your ambience stem and influence the emotional state of the listener? Now you can create soundscape by layering, rotating, expanding and shrinking the FuMa/ambiX file. You can also re-construct the 360° sound panorama from binaural up to 7.1 surround.

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Insectus - [USO008]

Immerse yourself in the second library of the Ambisonics series by USO. These “Runaway Trains” were recorded with a Senneheiser Ambeo and a Sonosax R4+ in and around the Milano Greco Pirelli railway station, which is part of the so-called “Milan Circle Line,” a railway loop which circumnavigates the city.
The library contains a lot of passing trains and ambient sounds recorded very close to the railway, both by day and by night. There has been no further processing, although I did carefully remove all the Italian announcements, to make life easier for the editors during the sound montage.
A useful bonus, too: you will find some ready-to-use backgrounds as “airfill” between the passing trains to create continuity in a longer scene, if need be. The ambient sounds are also great as a standalone!

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Runaway Trains [USO009]

Mexican Seaside is a unique Mid-Side collection of ocean sounds gathered during the summer of 2017 in the Yucatán Peninsula - Mexico. It contains sandy and rocky beach ambient sounds, with no human activity. These sounds were recorded at sunrise (on various days) with a Zoom H6 on a Joby GorillaPod and a MS capsule (MSH-6) covered by a Rycote Mini Windjammer. Mid-side allows you to actually adjust the width of the stereo image after it has been recorded. It provides total mono compatibility for recordings that may eventually be played back in mono, such as TV broadcasts.
The package contains a MS-RAW folder plus a LR folder with all the files decoded to stereo for quick use.
Here is what you get in “Mexican Seaside”:

MS-RAW Interleaved Files (stereo versions is included as well)
Comma-separated values file (.csv)
Excel spreadsheet (.xls)
License Agreement (.pdf)
Artwork – by Boombang Design (.jpg)
_Extras (Photos)

• Audio Format: Broadcast Wave Files (.wav)
• Bit Depth: 24-bit
• Uncompressed size: 4.95 GB

The "left" channel contains the unidirectional MID element , while the "right" channel contains the signal from the bi-directional SIDE pattern.
To obtain stereo from this requires M/S matrixing software: Left => MID + SIDE, Right => MID - SIDE (wherein the apparent width of the stereo field is controlled by the ratio of MID/SIDE).

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Mexican Seaside [USO010]

The Monaco Grand Prix 2018 is a genuine sonic document of the 76th edition of the Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco, the world’s most glamorous race.
If you’re looking for unique and modern race engine sounds and ambiences to use in your commercial, movie, television or game projects (please let us know where you’ll be using them), here you’ll find lot of sounds with different perspectives to start building real and tactile sport soundscapes.

We made use of two favourite Ambisonics microphones: the Sennheiser Ambeo and the classic Soundfield SPS200, recorded across our Sonosax gear (SX-R4+, SX-R4, SX-M32) and their amazing preamps, which digested the high SPLs of the high-performance cars.
But that’s not all: you’ll also find extremely accurate stereo recordings made with a Sanken CSS-5, an A-B Stereo Technique configuration with a couple of omnidirectional DPA 4060 and, last but not least, a custom MS rig based on a Schoeps MK 41 supercardioid capsule (Mid), plus a MK 8 figure-8 capsule (Side), amplified by their respective CMC 6 units.

Looking for radical transformations? We recorded everything @ 96 kHz, so if you want to turn a pass-by into a dramatic spaceship pass, you’ll be free from any sonic artifacts.

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Monaco Grand Prix 2018 [USO011]

Kyma Ambiences vol.2 contains 100 abstract and evolving ambiences created with our beloved Kyma sound design workstation.

Due to the increasing demand of spatialized content for game and VR/AR project, this inspiring collection has been entirely designed as a spherical representation of sound natively in 3rd Order Ambisonics by generating all the Sounds in Kyma and mastering them in Pro Tools through a custom analog setup.

Create a truly immersive and dystopian atmosphere with the 2nd volume of the classic Kyma Ambiences sound effects library.

Find out more: https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Kyma Ambiences - vol. 2 [USO012] | 96kHz

Back and Forth was born of an idea of Matteo Milani and Lorenzo di Tria, thinking on how to build an intuitive and great sounding music tool for contemporary producers and sound designers. Based on Lorenzo’s experience on the art of turntablism and Matteo’s ability to produce distinctive sound effect libraries, this collection is now an easy way to add real scratch and turntable performances to your musical and audiovisual projects, and finally make them sounds better then ever before.

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Back and Forth [USO013]

24-bit/96kHz Royalty-free Sound Design Collection

Kyma Ambiences is the third sound effects bundle created by Matteo Milani. The generation of these "Artificial Reality Ambiences" starts entirely in Symbolic Sound Kyma from the processing of white and pink noise by filtering - in the time/spectral domains - and convolving these sources with custom FM, additive and granular synthesis. The composition’s resource of sound material is drawn solely from these processed stochastic sound elements: coloured noise is a raw material already full of life and can be sculpted into a variety of temporal forms, movements and textures. The interaction with Kyma was typical of a composer who explored a device’s potential for sound transformation like a musical instrument. The goal was to obtain an organic and acoustic quality using only a restricted sound source, in order to evoke real spatial characteristics attached to each invented sound.

Kyma Ambiences is not only available in these two packages, but also as dual-layer separated "Elements", suitable for recombinant stratification, varispeed and spatial positioning in the surround field:

Available on https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/unidentified-sound-object/

Unidentified Sound Object

Popular tracks