Sonar
Here’s some sonar, baby. Click the notehead below to ping it. This is a classic sonar ping in E as heard in Hollywood movies. Sonar today sounds more like a moog synthesizer with rising and falling tones, squirrely pitch-bends, like an electric bird, but back in the day, the sonar was a simple tone. The […]
Netflix Sound
Below is the infamous Netflix sound. Click on the black stemmed noteheads to listen. A percussive double tap of D’s, Pavlovian chime, and Manchurian trigger all rolled into one. Inspired by the Law & Order sound, the Netflix sound was first heard in the original series House Of Cards when Kevin Spacey knocks twice on […]
The Common Loon Tremolo
In our last post, we covered the famous wail of the Common Loon. But that’s not the only haunting sound these birds make. Click the score below to hear the tremolo. When slowed down, you can hear the interval of a Minor Seventh. The loon starts around an F#, fires off odd tuplets of a […]
The Common Loon Wail
What has a black head, beady red eyes, and cries like a banshee? It’s the Common Loon! Drag over the noteheads to listen. The Common Loon sings an interval of an imperfect fourth, usually from E to A. This is a much wider interval than most birds, who commonly sing thirds. The mysterious wail of […]
Bluebird of Sadness
They come in threes, yes? After the first squirrel, there was bound to be a second, more horrific than the first, and the inevitable third dud of a chipmunk. When the blood smears out there’s always a bubble. Why a bubble? Three times I dragged them by the tail to the side of the road, […]
