I like making weird noise music involving samples. Some of my favorites have been sample CDs from the 90s, and using archive.org to look through PSAs and old news broadcasts. But it's really difficult finding anything good in the piles of just...local community radio and the mountains of college lectures. I like finding stuff that's really eerie or odd, like that one recording of that time the US tried scaring the Viet Cong with scary ghost noises (which didn't work lmao :uncle-ho-2: )

Does anyone else have a more streamlined approach or do any of y'all have any favorite media that's esoteric/creepy?

  • Metalorg [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I used to use sound files from video games. In the late 90s and early naughties games just had all their wav files in folders. Particularly id3 engine games had pk3 files that could be opened by zips. I'd download demos of games and they'd come with hundreds of sound files. Maybe there's a modern equivalent. Or just download those old games. There were dozens made in the quake 3 engine.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah! That's always a good place to check around. Lots of people will rip files and convert them to wav nowadays. Fun story, I've been doing that for a few games and I've noticed a lot of them actually do use samples from older CD-ROM sample libraries. Like that spooky trumpet thing from the TV in Half-Life 2? It's a sample from a Zero-G library. The Silent Hill games are full of sampling too. It's kind of fun and also kind of ruins some of the mystery, but oh well lol

      Oh, and Dreamcast games also have their audio files in folders like that! You can just go into the .iso and look for anything with a .adx extension and you can resample to wav.