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With an increasing popularity for making Home Movies comes a need for suggested background music, here collected in 1964. As the liner notes describe: "A moving-picture, whether it is of the... more

With an increasing popularity for making Home Movies comes a need for suggested background music, here collected in 1964. As the liner notes describe: "A moving-picture, whether it is of the... more

What could be the sound of heavy industrial machinery is in fact the noise produced by the famed San Francisco cable cars, a "living sound relic" as Shoshana Wechsler says in the detailed liner... more

Emory Cook gives listeners a tour of high fidelity recording, demonstrating techniques that enhance the sound quality and using musical performances, orations and sound effects to make his points.

Did you know that the ionosphere makes noise? Or that that noise is actually possible to record? This recording shows that the ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere that is ionized by solar... more

Recorded and annotated by Harold S. Ludlow in 1958. The album intersperses the Steam Locomotive sounds with spoken explanation by Ludlow of what each sound is. He opens the album stating that: "This... more

This special collection of 19th-century music boxes, carousels and hand organs yields not only the delicate bell-like tingle we associate with the music box or the huskier sound of hand organ... more

Longing for another go on the carousel? Relive the sound experience with tunes played on the calliope. The light-hearted music for organ has entered popular memory, with thanks due to our childhood... more

This eerie album opens with high pitched sounds followed by crackling and rustling noises. While what produced these noises is not identified, they are assigned possibilities such as "Sound of... more

This compilation of sounds from the city is divided into two categories: outdoor and indoor sound. Recorded in 1958 by Tony Schwartz for the purpose of using the noises for radio, TV, theatre and... more

Cook Laboratories promises authentic, real sound effects recorded on-location for superior sound quality. Need a rail station train departure announcement, the squeal of a power saw or burble of... more

This 1955 recording opens with several tracks of Merry-Go-Round music followed by interviews and noises from other fair rides. The sounds were collected by a group of students from the Chicago... more

This compilation of sounds from the city is divided into two categories: outdoor and indoor sound. Recorded in 1958 by Tony Schwartz for the purpose of using the noises for radio, TV, theatre and... more

This mysterious album opens with banging and creaking and could be mistaken for a minimalist sound piece. It is in fact the sounds of an office from 1964. Rustling papers, drawers closing, typing and... more

In 1957 Vinton Wight recorded and collected the sounds various different Steam Locomotives. He explains that "Stack Music" is "that delightful sound caused by super heated steam, exhausted from the... more

Green sounds of the tropical rain forest: black howler monkeys, toucans and chachalaca dominate the dry season while tree toads, Bufo marinus (South American toads) and parakeets accompany the rainy... more