the sound thread... add your own sound

[β cyg]

wind

something i almost recall
some hunting bird
skimming low over the road
and vanishing

[trisherina]

sleep

Ah, sleep.
The whir,
the beep.
The purr, the creep,

Asleep.
The deep,
a sweep,
the beep.

[lukkucairi]

the forest fire creeping toward me.

[zero]

quiet

in the quiet of early dawn
the wild raspberries you gathered from the light
crumple and fold in the basement, crumple and fold
to sweet solent, perfect
gravity.

[Stephi_B]

^ that's beautiful, Mr Zerö :)


keyboard

somniferous clack clack clack clack clack
tripping clackaclackaclack
energetic CLACK
slow c l a c k c l a c k c l a c k
staccato clack clack clack

[Superweevil]

Morning

Hummingbirds and
honeysuckles,
beetles breeze by
small feet running
on dawn-gleaming dew.

[brightpearl]

the slight rustle of clothes and pop of the wrist at 7:30

[β cyg]

clock

tick
setting her homework aside
she stops to listen
alone in herself and thinking in the lull
of all her future lives: newlywed; old
or travelling on somewhere
to a fresh beginning
tock

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

onomatopoeia (http://cougar.eb.com/soundc11/o/onomat03.wav)

[zero]

,
night : i'm 11 : a short wave radio is hidden under my pillow

static. faint voices. seven slow, monotonous tones. a pause. suddenly, you hear music—one of those children's wind-up songs played by an ice cream van. the melody repeats three times. a pause. suddenly, you hear a female voice counting off the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 in german. a pause. she repeats the numbers. a pause. the toy melody returns..... (http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/disc%201/tcp_d1_1_the_swedish_rhapsody_irdial.mp3)

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

♫ (http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/whale/movies/humpbacksong.mov)

[lukkucairi]

the quintessential victorianness of the ophicleide (http://www.melbarecordings.com.au/mp3s/OblivionTr1.mp3)

[GodlessPinko]

de kerschrunk kempftuflet kremptschlittingly recknovum.

it did i tell you.

[Brynn]

black ice in a white-out.

The passengers in the car inhale sharply together, as if for the last time.
The soft swish of slush, a 360 spin into oncoming traffic.
Hearts thud in slow motion.
The driver murmurs "wheeeeeee."

[zero]

birdsong

mingling with rain
echoes in the sky behind our eyes
lost in speech and silence, blackbird
darker than windfalls
soft as the dimming of embers.

[trisherina]

The ring of the shovel blade as it clears expanses of exposed aggregate in the otherwise unearthly quiet of a frozen winter afternoon.

[xfox]

equine stirring of straw
at breakfast
the grain scoop in the sack
words of love,
sometimes.

[zero]

port lligat '94

all afternoon the sung world comes to its senses:
flickers of light in the trees,
pixels of warmth,
skitter of geckos crossing a dry stone wall.
i find the threaded pebble and the listening shell.

[Stephi_B]

construction site

background humming, clanging, pounding, shouting,
creating the golden monstrosity in slow motion.

[zero]

yew glade, kingley vale

where gas-blue eyes close
upon this country of mile-deep woods
and all thinking has stopped
like the calm at the edge of a snowfall

[Stephi_B]

Loudspeaker Announcement Lady of Ostbahnhof

I know you are a recorded voice
mixed together in fragments by a computer
but you sound lovely and warm to my ears
if I were a man or lesbian I'd want to marry you right away
you sooth me whenever trains are 20 minutes late or fail to go at all
it's simply nice to know you and I know you're beautiful!
- ah well, maybe not so sexy than the real-time Announcement Lady they sometimes have at Ostkreuz, but that's OK.

[T.I.P.]

* ZING !! *

[T.I.P.]

POW !!

[T.I.P.]

//// GGZZZZzzzztttzTT ///

[Jack Flanders]

^^^ street work? or what? :(

[T.I.P.]

^^^ street work? or what? :(

nah, someone getting zapped with an electric stun gun

[zero]

mute

cob and pen,
burnes abandoned boatyard.

slack water,
when the god of silt and shipwrecks murmurs across the ebb tide.

nightfall,
and the gloaming on the slipway settles down
to just that shade of blue
where everything that's lost is rendered
visible.

[Frieda]

road trip
sun in my eyes
radio's playing tunes

on the asphalt
zooming in my car
vrooming in 5th gear

and i am singing

[β cyg]

pause

living caesura. more than the sum of my parts. i'm waiting for the limbo of a life that goes without saying, in a circle in the sand of blackened wood where someone has stopped before now to light a fire. the angel of the roads maybe,or the panic of standstills.

[brightpearl]

Home. (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/wwwsounds/birds/hardy84sh.wav)

[Frieda]

dawn

soft cold damp air on my skin, cows greet me
the sky turns red, shadows appear in the reeds
the trees, the cows, then my own

good morning, let us greet each other.
the river never stops.

[β cyg]

bush crickets call
katy did, katy didn't;
in the world of small things,
big things can happen.

[Frieda]

ROOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RR


~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~


*wuh? wah?*

[lukkucairi]

camp & leutwyler - space cadet (http://www.we7.com/public/trackDetails/Space-Cadet?trackId=447248)

[zero]

my three coins strike tin in the honesty-box at black dog nursery

[brightpearl]

The distinct thudless expanse of the other shoe not dropping

[Frieda]

sudden, exciting chatter of jackdaws in the big tree across the street

just as sudden, flapping wings

and silence

[trisherina]

The white sussuration of the furnace fan at the registers

[β cyg]

break off two icicles
percuss them together
listen
icicles sound twicicles as nicicles

[trisherina]

the soft drawn-out splash as the goose makes landing on water

[Coffee]

Opening day on the bay; Intermittent diesel thrum and twin-screwed cavitation underscores the yacht club cover bands echoing through the hull.

[Frieda]

the dry squeaking of rice crackers being gnawed into eternity

[Bman]

E7 #9

you are the sound of

all the things i want to do

that will get me in trouble

[trisherina]

surely they don't expect me not to laugh at a good melodic klaxon

[Frieda]

the shrill cries of swallows criss crossing the rainbow sunset sky

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

the early morning assaying sniffings of a stopped-up nose

[Frieda]

the ppeeoiiiiieooeoeoooeeeeeeeeeeebloeips of a hungry belly

[MoJoRiSin]

: ) ^ that's a good one Frieda!

[Frieda]

the shrieks of gulls chasing each other's tailfeathers in the sunday morning fog

[Bman]

Tuba practice.

[Coffee]

pfudafudafudafudaphudaphudaphuda click ! phweeee sigh pfudafudafudafudaphudaphudaphuda click ! phweeee sigh


^warm cat on slowly warming lap during a freezing cold marina morning as space heater cycles on and off.

[trisherina]

puppy snoring, facefirst into chair mat

[Frieda]

kadung kadung from a poorly balanced washing machine