Resonant Rusty Door

Inside an abandoned WWII bunker, a deteriorating steel door generates haunting, musical sound effects through various interactions, producing harmonics and tones shaped by decades of coastal rust.

Sound Files
87 files
Total Size
253 MB
Sample Rate
96 kHz
Format
Stereo
Metadata
Yes
Bit Depth
24 bits
Sold By : Alex Lane
Resonant Rusty Door

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Description

Recorded at an old bunker constructed near the Chebucto Head lighthouse (Halifax, Nova Scotia) during WWII, now derelict and covered in rust.

These recordings were a happy accident, discovered on the way to record something else. This large, heavy steel door has been rusting since wartime, and when I noticed it I immediately knew it would have a unique sonic character. When moved, it produces interesting almost musical tones, rich with harmonics and ripe for processing.

This library includes a variety of sounds generated by interacting with the door in different ways (scraping, punching, and moving at various speeds).

All sounds are decoded to stereo, normalized and processed minimally beyond noise reduction. Files are tagged with metadata in Basehead and stamped in iXML, bext and ID3 formats.

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