{"id":17994,"date":"2018-10-11T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=17994"},"modified":"2018-10-11T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:35:11","slug":"hyenas-and-elephants-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2018\/10\/11\/hyenas-and-elephants-oh-my.html","title":{"rendered":"Hyenas and Elephants, Oh My"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tStrange discovery. I spotted a 4gb .WAV file on my phone, and figured I had left the voice recorder running by mistake. That’s happened a few times, and when it did I just deleted the file. Not this time. What happened was I was trying to record Joe Frank off the radio in the kitchen. I got tired and went to bed, forgetting to turn off the recording app. I go to bed and the phone picks up somewhat disturbing sounds of me sleep-thrashing, as I’ve been told I do. But I was also sleep-screaming, sounding like a fucking hyena at times, or maybe an elephant. I was screaming “NO!” and “WHAT?” and “OW!”. I equate the sound with some kind of self-strangulation, and it did not last just a little while. I went at it like this for over 5 hours until I finally get solid, softly-snoring sleep. It was not as constant or as rapid-fire as this very condensed audio makes it sound, but it was pretty fucking loud, enough for me to question if it woke the neighbors. Listen in to 5+ hours condensed to 4 very exciting minutes.<\/p>\n

Now, making audio of myself sleeping sounds like something I would do, and I’m reasonably certain I’ve at least attempted it. But this recording happened entirely without my knowledge, and makes me sound like some kind of deep sea creature begging for attention. I should make this my next Shoutcast radio.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strange discovery. I spotted a 4gb .WAV file on my phone, and figured I had left the voice recorder running by mistake. That’s happened a few times, and when it did I just deleted the file. Not this time. What happened was I was trying to record Joe Frank off the radio in the kitchen. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-hoarding","category-sounds","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-4Ge","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}