Which sounds/noises do you find tolerable vs. intolerable?

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yeees it masks things very well. I sleep with a white noise machine.




Do you listen to Steve Reich? His albums: Drumming, Music for 18 Musicians, Electric Counterpoint, Piano Phase. They are a clear 10/10, I love dissecting those layers. Like an auditory architectural treat.

1/10 the sound of someone writing with a marker and pressing too much
I don't know the reason but is worse than fingernails scratching a blackboard.

I love Atari sound (10/10) (note : the video is buggy, click to go straight 10 seconds forward):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKM3TSLXh4g[/youtube]

This one too :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp6OsOVx3wA[/youtube]

And the one I prefer, probably the best music in the world (just wait after the few notes of introduction and the horrible high note, after that it is just marvellous, so you can turn the volume down at the begginning or put your fingers in your ears, and when the music starts turn it up, again at the end put your fingers in your ears)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgcSunoUqAE[/youtube]

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1/10
paper tearing
nails on a chalkboard
2 different radios playing at the same time
music played through bad speakers
more than one person talking to me at once
kitchen noise in a restaurant
smoke alarms
people filing their nails

2/10
writing on a chalkboard
power saws
loud music played in stores
clocks ticking
sandpaper
booming bass "booty" music

3/10
writing with a pencil
whispering
a person talking too fast
scratchy violin music

4/10
doors or furniture squeaking
eating noises
registers beeping
loud planes flying over
cats washing themselves

5/10
tv commercials
fluorescent lights
breathing & nose whistling

6/10
cpu & hard drive sounds
water dripping

7/10
wind
windchimes
loud trucks or motorcycles

8/10
orchestral music
piano music
thunder

9/10
choral music
birds chirping
ocean waves crashing
rain
cello music

10/10
cats meowing, chirping or purring
harp, dulcimer or zither music
water fountain or creek


"Dry" sounds bother me the most, especially if my skin is dry.

I find the sound of those Chipmunks from those live action movies very annoying. I had no problem with the cartoon series & those CDs but the pitch of their voices in those action movies & those songs really aggravates my hearing for some reason

Jay,
This video you posted is one of the scariest things I've ever seen or heard.

I've never heard of this band. Freaky.

Sounds good to me (just a few of my semi-unique ones):

The crunch of stepping on fresh snow. And it feels cool too

Cutting paper with scissors

Crumbling paper

Pouring tea or coffee into a mug

And deep gravelly male voices

Edit to add: this one is a little weird: when I was little, I loved the sound of the vacuum cleaner when I was about to fall asleep. I always would hope my mom would vacuum when I was laying in bed.

No kidding. It's not a band though, and it's origin is also pretty freaky if your interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

The most famous number station is probably UVB 76: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76

Hear it live here: http://uvb-76.net/

Thank you for confirming that. After I watched/listened on youtube, I did a quick search on number stations....I've never heard of this before. Now I'm fascinated!

Check out/download the conet project: http://www.strangebeautiful.net/the-conet-project-full/

Awesomeness!
Thank you.

Too tired to think much about this but,

1: Fire drill alarm. This is just pure pain.
2: That horrible horrible noise before an emergency broadcast. This is what dying alone in a terrible manner sounds like.
4: The NOAA weather radio broadcast electronic voice. I'm pretty sure the voice has changed since I was a young kid, though. When I was 8 years old, this would have had a rating of -1. This voice was the most terrifying thing in the world to me. That voice meant instant hysterical fear. I couldn't have been more scared if I was looking death in the face. I've gotten used to it over the years, but I still don't like it. It kind of makes me laugh to think about it now though, because I have no idea what makes it scary at all.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about with the weather radio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pMFWOuoFPQ

I guess "his" name was Paul. Plus, another of my most hated noises is in there too.

1/10 fire alarm and my vacuum cleaner

That is how I feel absolutely. Similar to the dying animatronic robots and other cheap electronic modulated speech. Totally irrational. The feeling was also accompanied by the words "demented" and "mal function". I didn't know what they meant back then but that feeling produced a kind of forced association with those words. "Demented" still creates this image of a melting blob of a face on the floor flattening out more an more saying "la la...la?". Along with the blob face, I also associated this feeling/sound/vision with a lab tilt table like the ones they put a bag of donated blood upon in order to keep it from coagulating. All these come in a group. These feelings are kind of nostalgic at the same time which makes me want to listed to them, with hesitation. This happened so many times. A morbid mix-up of sensory signals. Does anyone identify with this?


And another creepy video for you I won't embed here. It's very odd.

read up on it here before viewing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headro ... _intrusion

the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cycVTXtm0U0

I apologize for bassicaly posting the most disturbing non-horror movie things I know, but I find it interesting to see what video links others post (both pleasant and non-pleasant). There are so many facets to "disturbing" and I've always wanted to exhaust any "oomph" they exert on me by watching/thinking/listening about it again and again just so I can transform it into something laughable.

1/10 The sound of someone touching polystyrene (makes my skin crawl and sometimes makes me nauseous).

1/10 The sound of laundry machines, dryers, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners and such. (I really can't stand to hear that sound and I can't concentrate on anything else if I hear it).

1/10 The low electric buzz of fluorescent lights, some other lights and certain kinds of electronics make. Sounds on that frequency really feel like someone is stabbing me in the ears. When I'm watching a DVD and need to pause for a bit, then I must make the TV mute right away, or else a really terrible, low buzzing sound will be coming from the TV.

2/10 Saxophone.

3/10 A lot of people talking at a time.

8/10 to 9/10 Most musical instruments.

10/10 Animal sounds of any kind.

10/10 Explosions (for example from fireworks or artillery).

I don't recall the exact number system, since I read this yesterday but here goes:

1/10 Baby-toddler crying or screaming. Produces anxiety/stress/panic attacks
1/10 EMT siriens. Can bring me to my kness (and has)
That was a tie..

5/10 Background chatter. As long as not in my ear, not bad..
2/10 Loud Rap "Music" UGGHH
3/10 Twangy country music. Bothers me, I don't know why
4/10 My Jack Russel barking & yipping. Truly a spoiled Brat!
6/10 Heavy metal. Not my style of Rock & Roll

I have many more, but don't really have the time.

Sincerely,
Matt