Sonic Events
Early Edison Recordings
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Some of Edison's earliest sound recordings, which range from beautiful, to strange, to terrifying—and in some cases all three.
1up
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What is now commonly referred to as "Chiptune music" grew out of a generation raised on 8-bit computer games and consoles. The minimal yet catchy music born out of Nintendo and the like took a limited palate of bleeps and bloops and provided the soundtrack of a generation.
Sound Off
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Born out of the cassette tape culture of the 1980s, the Tellus series was an audio magazine created in the Lower East Side of New York City.
More 80s Than 80s
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Behold, the latest Hotel St. George sonic challenge: obscure but authentic pieces of music recorded in the 1980s.
40 Years of Polish Experimental Radio from Studio Warsaw
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'It's not an official material but several tunes for 40 years of Experimental Studio of Polish Radio in Warsaw'
The Conet Project
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Not much is known--or at least few people are willing to talk about--what purpose these "number stations" serve or what messages are being conveyed.
Guessing Game
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Do the following come from a) a shofar; b) a Bruce Nauman sound installation; c) the robotic dog from Dr. Who?
Inner and Outer Space
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Ah, space. The following items (all but the last) were excerpted from various archives of interstellar recordings. Many of them are strangely beautiful and really quite unnerving. How is it that solar winds penetrating magnetic fields could sound like wolves howling? Or that the frequency of ambient plasma is indistinguishable from a Theremin? Or that the Northern Lights sound like the echoey chirps you might hear in a tropical rain forest? Or that the lightning on Saturn make noises like sliding pennywhistles?
Aleatory
by James Sizemore, Rama Gottfried
MIDI piano, transistor radios, and Billy Joel. Must be heard to be believed.