Natural overtones produced by wind blowing through a metal fence (shown in image) at Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, Indiana. Recorded on May 17, 2008, at 4:18 p.m. with a Samsung Digimax A7 digital camera. Volume envelope has been edited.

Prof. Trevor Cox of the University of Salford offers a probable explanation for this sound phenomenon on The Sound Blog: http://acousticengineering.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/why-do-railings-whistle-in-the-wind/

Jet-edge overtones, Falls of the Ohio State Park, Clarksville, IN (May 17, 2008)

(Drum Liners)

“What are we playing?” “Cadence.”

Source chronology: June 6, 2003; July 21 & 22, 2003

(Triton)

This is a test of the Uncivil Offense Network.

Source chronology: circa December 1998; November 13, 2000; December 26, 2001; May 21, 2003; June 14, 2003

(Stereogram)

“The first, uh, thing we’re going to do to test the stereo sound is—I’m going to…play this:”

Source chronology: circa Summer 1998; circa December 1998; February 1999; July 28, 2003

(Sausage Eating Robots)

Yeah, baby—Sausage Eating Robots, baby, rah-hah-ahhhhck.

Source chronology: November 26, 1998; December 3 & 6, 1998; June 28, 1999; October 21, 1999

(Swingset Drumset)

You squeeze ’em, and you put ’em in your ear. Here, I’ll show ya.

Source chronology: circa November 1998; June 17, 1999; circa December 2001

(Slide Rule)

x = (6 strings) / (1 ChapStick)

Source chronology: circa August 1998; May 29, 1999; December 31, 2000

(Bertha Fun Nation)

The Eructation of Mt. St. Bertha.

Source chronology: January 17, 1993; circa Summer 1998; September 25, 1998; circa October 1998; Winter 1999; June 18, 1999; January 1, 2000; May 21, 2003; June 2003

(Baby-Lawn)

This is the time I’m doing this voice.

Source chronology: January 17, 1993; November 26, 1998; circa May 1999

(Whinge Kids)

And don’t come back.

Source chronology: circa Fall 1996; circa March 1997; circa September 1998; November 13, 2000; Fall 2002; June 2003

(Pit Stop)

The thrilling Season 2 cliffhanger you won’t want to miss. (Listener Discretion Advised: Contains the one network-permitted F-word for the season.)

Source chronology: circa September 1998; circa October 1998; May 1999; January 1, 2000; circa February 2000; December 31, 2000

From 1993 to 2004 (age 7 to 18), I recorded hours and hours of audio tape. Songs, fake radio programs, actual radio noises, found sounds, and conversations with friends found their way onto dozens of cassettes. In 2009, facing the incipient degradation of the original tapes, I began to digitize and catalog them—and also to collect samples from them to arrange into new electronic compositions. 

The zyzzy78! project will comprise 78 different pieces, each exactly 60 seconds long. The tape excerpts are presented with alteration to amplitude (volume), stereo placement (left/right), and splicing only. I have made no changes to the playback speed or direction, and I have used no post-digitization filters to modify the sounds. All of the pieces are free to download and are licensed under a Creative Commons cc-by-nc-sa license. I welcome you to share them and adapt them under the terms of that license—and if you do adapt them, I would be glad to receive a link!

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