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?
recording of that time the US tried scaring the Viet Cong with scary ghost noises
:fedposting: hueuhahaehuaehheuauaeheau. ok let me add some sound effects to that, this'll surely scare them
edit: this paragraph lmao
An example of the ghost tape being used effectively, was when the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion[4] mixed an authentic tiger roar during a time when North Việt Cộng soldiers were being attacked by tigers near a mountain. The 6th PSYOP got their information from a Việt Cộng defector by the name of Chiêu Hồi. With this information and a new recording, they sent soldiers behind enemy lines up a mountain passage with the task of playing this new ghost tape. After the 6th PSYOP played this recording, reportedly 150 Việt Cộng soldiers decided to leave their position on the mountain in fear of being killed by tigers. That is just one of many examples of the ghost tape being used effectively.[citation needed]
motherfuckers are literally being attacked by real-ass tigers and these fucking nerds think that they left because of a fake tiger and not the real ones
assuming the story is even remotely based in anything that happened, considering it has no sources at all. you'd think if it were totally made up though they'd make up a story that doesnt make them look fucking stupid lol
the ghost tape allegedly never worked to make the Viet Cong abandon their positions, instead they'd just open fire on the Americans lmao
probably because uhhh the Vietnamese soldiers realized the sounds were audio broadcasts from speakers attached to boats or helicopters. American soldiers thought so little of the Vietnamese they thought enemy soldiers would hop out of their shoes and say zoinks g-g-g-ghosts and then run away with a little dust cloud. America was so racist they made continual severe tactical mistakes against a smaller, less technologically equipped army and then lost :uncle-ho:
isn't esoterica difficult to search for by definition?
maybe check if your local library has any interesting archival material
I just went there and one of the top posts is that time in 1996 everyone at the DNC did the macarena. This is the only good subreddit now
One guy on that sub uploads stuff to the Internet Archives, too - the guy who just did the Classical Loon 2 post. That might be worth checking out.
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.
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.
A lot of surrealist films have fantastic soundtracks. Eraserhead was groundbreaking for its experimentation with sound.
Oh hell yeah, David Lynch is really good at finding musicians to collaborate with. I love the stuff he did with Angelo Badalamenti.
Lynch released an album in 2007 called "Polish Night Music" that's really good, if you wanna check it out
I'll have to check it out. I love listening to that type of music
I want to recommend UbuWeb, which is an archive of mostly avant-garde art and theory. There's a lot of early electronic music and 60s performance art on there, but also speeches by Soviet and other Marxist intellectuals. It's maybe not all that eerie, but I feel like it's a lot of stuff that's already interesting on its own.
Oh this is exactly the kinda thing I was looking for. This is rad. Also sorry tangent question, are you named after the lady from Vampire: the masquerade bloodlines?
Have you tried making friends with record nerds? I'm told that a lot of early rap artists sampled whatever records they could get hold of, you might find some interesting stuff.
