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Retail Pneumat

By disquiet on January 2, 2026 2:46 am

I've been experimenting with taking field recordings and reworking the material by repeating and layering small segments, as well as applying light effects, notably pitch-shifting. That's what this is. I use various tools. In this case, I did it all just in Audacity. The source audio is something I recorded in an office supply store on my phone. You can find the original here:

https://freesound.org/people/disquiet/sounds/838457/
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/retail-phase
https://disquiet.com/2025/12/16/retail-phase/

Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)

Nice sound collage.

No ice cube rattling in a glass? Disappointing!

I kid, I kid. This immersive piece is a nice palate cleanser between the stuff I've heard so far for W1. Like, my only complaint is that at 01:06 this is barely a postcard from the place. But I'm known to complain about short durations.

Another suggestion is to withhold disclosing what it is we're hearing. You might be surprised how differently people might interpret what the field that you recorded was.

RPLKTR wrote:

Another suggestion is to withhold disclosing what it is we're hearing.

Oh, that's a very good point. Yeah, I'll share a link in the future, for the curious, but not state the source material outright. Ambiguity is the way.

actually cool. reminds me a bit of @suhpos tracks (and workflow)
i was gonna say dis track quiet

nice sounds!

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