A friend once made a strange request. She wanted me to send her a recording of the sounds my door made when opening and closing it. Per her request, I promptly sent over this short masterpiece of found sound.<\/p>\n
I’d become so used to hearing it I forgot that it was, indeed, distinctive, and ultimately symptomatic of a tenuous connection that could have led to the door falling off its hinges. This in fact happened a long time ago, when I did not see it coming, so I was ready this time to pre\u00ebmptively do something about it.<\/p>\n
It sounds like a complaining animal of some sort, and reminds me of the time I put a CD-ROM disc of Microsoft Encarta into a regular CD player. I guess audio on CD ROM discs is organized differently than on regular music CDs, because in a regular CD player it played, simultaneously, sounds of hyena screams and elephant snorts at the same time as excerpts from Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. <\/em>Quite a jarring juxtaposition of sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A friend once made a strange request. She wanted me to send her a recording of the sounds my door made when opening and closing it. Per her request, I promptly sent over this short masterpiece of found sound. I’d become so used to hearing it I forgot that it was, indeed, distinctive, and ultimately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sounds","et_post_format-et-post-format-audio","et-has-post-format-content"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-6Oa","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174","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=26174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26176,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions\/26176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}