Here the ears do the work: a guide to pointing a small recorder at things that don’t announce themselves, a spoof whose joke rests on getting a Moog modular, a Jupiter-8 and a CS-80 right, a 1987 single carried into a voice that never sang it, and a pond where every quack is synthesized as it happens.
A Mac app that gives your keyboard mechanical-switch sounds
→ tryklack.com
Eight woodland creatures, none of them recorded, playable in your browser
→ zaghaghi.github.io
Twelve mallards, no recordings, every quack synthesized live
→ celphase.github.io
A wind-up timer that plays Mozart instead of buzzing
→ kikkerland.com
Homer with the pitch accent put back
→ openculture.com
Building an alien tongue out of notes, then asking linguists if it holds
→ scientificamerican.com
A field guide to recording the sounds nature doesn't advertise
→ yalebooks.yale.edu
Three synth lords save Earth from Halley's Comet, judged on sheer coolness
→ youtube.com
Need You Tonight, sung as Let's Dance-era Bowie
→ youtube.com