Decay sound effects in both senses of the word. There's the ruined kind, abandoned houses and empty warehouses built into looping atmospheres with the odd strange sound turning up. Then the kind that fades. Gamelan bars and gongs get each strike recorded on its own, from the short decay of a saron to a gong's full, natural resonance.
In sound terms, decay is how a hit fades after it's struck, and the gamelan recordings show it well. Every strike is recorded on its own with the natural ring left on, so the tail can be trimmed short for a hit or left to run under a tense scene, and there's more struck metal in Tuned Percussion. The forest impulse responses add a different kind of decay, the reverb of a place, for putting a dry sound out among the trees. On the ruined side, the abandoned buildings suit a post-apocalyptic game or an empty house in a horror film. Whispers and unsettling vocal textures push that further, for a mind that is coming apart.
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