Someone aimlessly flipping through the pages of a book. It is fast and pointless, at the end they slam the book closed. This is done in a library set up, note the ambience.
Recorded sand on a large piece of paper being dragged across a rubberized dance floor (marley). Space had a twenty foot ceiling. Recorded with a tascam im2 stereo condenser microphone and ipod touch. This version has shorter, tugging drags.
Me tapping a series of objects on a block of heavy, toothy paper. A pencil eraser, metal nail file, empty straw wrapper, a metal hole-punch, and a crinkled wadded up paper.
A sound made by running my finger nail over a sheet of notebook paper. While no paper was torn, it sounds surprisingly like tearing paper and could be suitable for that.
The end of a lead synth i made in ableton as part of my track "venture". The rise in pitch at the end is quite nice, i think. Hear it in the track here:http://youtu. Be/cncgyp7ta0y?t=1m43s.