104 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Duration"

A small, mechanical music box plays, slows down and stops. Synthesized sound with stereo light reverb effect. Duration 0'52". Three turns of a wooden boxed clockwork mechanical key followed by a bright, nonsensical music box tune. As the tune plays, the tempo slows down - gradually at first but becoming profoundly slower towards the end. Tune ends on a melancholic note mid phrase. Could be used as a standalone effect, or perhaps metaphorically as a cipher for the aging process and cessation of life. The clockwork key effect is a rapidly repeating single mechanical clock tick filtered to sound box-like. The sound of the music box tines was created with ni fm8 using four sinewave oscillators, one of which feeds back on itself to produce a hint of metallic ringing.

Made with free tuareg 1. 5 and cool edit pro 2. 1. This breakbeat sequence includes the hot pants break* and the amen break** (besides the four crashes added after exporting from tuareg, mixed with cool edit pro 2. 1). I applied some cuts and two distorsion levels to the last one (i always loved to distort breakbeats). I made it several years ago, i think originally at 120 bpm or 140 bpm. . . But i wanted to check out how does it sounds at 96 bpm and i liked. Anyway, this is acid-sized (its duration is exactly 41 bars at 96 bpm), so you can change the speed to any bpm you want. * http://www. Freesound. Org/people/bronxio/sounds/200173/** http://www. Freesound. Org/people/bronxio/sounds/200174/.

Classic hip-hop sample! if not mistaken, originally from the song u. F. O. By esg in 1981. Commonly used in hip-hop tracks in the golden era (mid-80's until mid 90's). This got also the original second bar compressed in duration before the beat starts, so it has 2 bars. Edited with audacity and magix music maker 5. As a a classic hip-hop sample, it's de facto public domain. It's been used so many times by so many artists through the years. Here you have a list of some songs those have it (ordered by release date):. · esg - ufo - 1981 (http://youtu. Be/0bss-qq99aq?t=14s)· dj chuck chillout & kool chip - time to rhyme - 1989 (http://youtu. Be/afniprh10z8?t=34m25s)· stezo - it's my turn - 1989 (http://youtu. Be/z8c7g5d7hsc?t=5s)· unrest - u. F. O. - 1991 (http://youtu. Be/glmmvkoklpk?t=3s)· miles davis - fantasy - 1992 (http://youtu. Be/fdbtwbqeq2s?t=18s)· notorious b. I. G. - party and bullshit (original mix) - 1993 (http://youtu. Be/6i5fgro2d38?t=10s)· junior mafia - realms of junior mafia - 1995 (https://www. Youtube. Com/watch?v=hcllk0ic0bw)· j dilla - geek down - 2006 (http://youtu. Be/70swratfghm?t=10s). Some other classic samples has been already uploaded to freesound. Org. You can check, for example, the amen break (extracted from the amen brothers by the winstons in 1969): if you make a search of "amen break" you'll find about 250 sounds (at the moment i wrote this description), original one and variations.

I made this recording of ambient backgroud noise directly beneath the eiffel tower. The shape of the eiffel tower creates a unique acoustic environment in the vicinity of the tower, especially beneath it. You can hear a much higher level of background noise than you would hear in an open area, and the noise is unusual. The tower is made of thin pieces of iron arranged into a complex and very large lattice, which reflects and slices and dices sound in a unique way. Thus you have a high level of very even and unidentifiable background noise as noises from the ground and the platform get bounced around and distorted by the structure of the tower. This recording was made from the ground, with microphones pointed straight upwards about 2 meters off the ground. Noises from the ground travel upwards and bounce around the inside of the tower, then drift back down. There are noises in the tower itself as well, such as elevator motors and people on the platforms. The first platform, at 57 meters, is open in the center, whereas the second platform, at 116 meters, is completely closed and flat on the bottom. Wind moving through the tower also makes noise, and again the open structure of the tower changes the noise in a way that is specific to the eiffel tower. There wasn't much wind at ground level for this recording, but i don't know what the wind speed was at higher levels in the tower. Some voices in multiple languages are audible in the recording, as the area beneath the tower is awash in tourists. Recorded hand-held with a zoom h4n and a mini windjammer, using built-in mics, in stereo 96 khz / 24 bits, then converted to mp3 at 320 kbps because of the size of the file. Duration is about two minutes.