sounds for use
put up by larry polansky
dartmouth, bregman
(last update, 9/15/05)

These are mostly AIFF files, very short, for public use. There's probably a couple of wav and .sd2 files here as well. Use them at your own risk.

They conform to no known aesthetic standard. Thanks to, among others, Jin Soo Kim, Anne Perez, douglas repetto, Richard Lerman, Ileana Perez, Vanderlei Lucentini, Deborah Johnson, Travis Garrison, Tom Erbe, and others too numerous or anonymous to mention (LP)

You'll need to download them (Save this link...). There's no compression or anything. Some are stereo, some mono, most (I think) are 44.1.

breaking glass (not a wedding, thanks to jin soo...)
glasssparse.aiff
glassshot.aiff saxvoicemoving3.aiff
glass1.aiff
messybreak.aiff
highshot.aiff

 very short fortepiano sounds
chord
shortnotes

a great soprano singing two words of ruth crawford seeger
sacco vanzetti

 my trio for a few seconds (kui dong, christian wolff, moi)
improv blast
primates
monkeys

whatever
Grass.transient.aiff (Lerman piezo electromania)
low_ship_horn.aiff
NoyzeFieu.aiff
really_ugly.aiff
rollingiron.aiff
movingsaxvoice.aiff
shortbirdscreech.aiff
shortmorph.aiff
ugly electronic_morph.aiff
ugly(2) electronic_morph.aiff

whatever!.aiff

laugh.aiff

mandolinlick
empi singing
clarinet, kemanak, gender (me and dan goode)
retuned fender rhodes playing old bahaman folksong (?!?#)@(#??)

a few clarinet samples
clarinet 1
clarinet 2
clarinet 3

two nice monochord boings (thanks to sam torrisi)
long monochord sound, with long decay
same sound, much shorter, normalized a crotale extravaganza (from travis garrison)
a really beautiful set of single crotale note recordings, this is a wonderful resource. thanks travis!
some examples of one-minute pieces just using one of these sounds and a sound editor (mp3s)
(all of these were done in spring, 02)
(winter 03) (fall 04)