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• Antique Radio Museum
  The museum is the largest collection of antique radios and televsions from the early 20th century.
• Audio Arts
  
• Audio Reversal
  Let's get academic about the devil.
• Bati! Ethiopian Music Archives
  "With the popularity of Ethiopiques series, here's a streamable version."
• Bits and Pieces
  A cool web project that randomly searches the internet for sound files, samples them, and then rearranges them into a new audio collage.
• Blue Pages
  The Encyclopedic Guide to 78 R.P.M. Party Records
• Building Binaural Microphones
  Small binaural microphone pairs are popular for unobtrusively recording musical and other events.
• CD Oddities Page
  This set of pages is dedicated to exploring the violation and manipulation of the CD Standard to hide audio tracks within regular audio CDs or otherwise cause CDs to act in a way not intended by the creators of the audio CD standard
• Cell Phone Symphony
  You are listening to a symphony and a cell phone rings. You shoot the offending phone owner a menacing look. The musicians on stage contemplate murder. "Cell phones are the enemy to a classical musician," said Richard Reynolds, a French horn player at the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra in California. "You're sitting in a very quiet moment and then someone's damn cell phone goes off. You think, 'That idiot.'"
• Chesky Records
  Look for JD037 which includes the LEDR speaker test which is 3-D audio from 2 speakers.
• Clyde Tunnel
  Sound installation in Glascow Scotland.
• Create a Fart
  What can I say?It's funny.
• Cylinder of the Month Archive
  "Streaming examples of old, old music on cylinders."
• Dead Recording Media
  
• Demos From Hell
  
• Flexi/Oddity records
  
• Internet Nuseum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Records
  Once bound by cereal boxes, held in the pages of a magazine, wrapped up in envelopes sent through our postal system or given away casually with some product, these bits of paper and plastic yearned to be set free to fulfill their destiny as...
• Jelly Roll Morton Retrospective
  
• Language Removal Services
  Anyone who's edited dialog for long periods of time will enjoy this.
• Laughing and Crying Records
  A collection of records with laughing of crying on them.
• Mars Microphone
  What does Mars sound like?
• Miserable Music
  Celebrate the Misery!
• Modulator Sound Web Ring
  
• Museum of Sound Recording
  
• Pioneers in Electronic Music
  PDFs of the complete exhibit catalog for Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt (Pioneers of Electronic Art), held in Austria in 1992. Includes an excellent essay on the history of electronic music, plus tons of bio-profiles, articles, essays, etc. etc. Not just music, mind you, but video too. (There's even a 17 page essay on "Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback"!) Very cool.
• Satellite Systems of the Car
  
• Secret Museum of the Air
  
• SleepBot Environmental Broadcast
  Turn on, fluff up and fall asleep
• sound era archive
  An Alternative Guide to Music in Movies
• Sound Path Labs
  SERVING COMMUNICATION OF ARTISTIC INTENT
• Sound Portraits
  Established as a non-profit organization in 1994 by MacArthur Fellow David Isay, Sound Portraits Productions is an independent production company dedicated to telling stories that bring neglected American voices to a national audience. Whether on the radio, in print, or on the Web, Sound Portraits is committed to producing innovative works of lasting educational, cultural, and artistic value. Sound Portraits's radio documentaries (broadcast on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition) are audio profiles of men and women surviving in the margins. Told with care and dignity, the work depicts the lives of Americans living in communities often neglected or misunderstood. Sound Portraits frequently collaborates with people living in these hard-to-access corners of America, giving them tape recorders and microphones and helping them tell their own stories.
• Sound System 7
  "On our site you can remix music and send mixes to your friends. We have developed our own interactive music format to allow you to "play" with music, rather than just listen to it. Mix solo or mix with your friends."
• Sounds of Aurora Borealis
  These are examples of ELF-VLF radio phemonena which can be heard in middle-latitudes (30-60 degrees north geographic latitudes) by anyone with an audio-frequency ELF-VLF radio receiver at ground level. Similar recordings to these have been made by satellite-based receivers in Earth's orbit, such as the POLAR-PWI spacecraft (please see links at bottom of this page). Those data recordings lack the ever-present lightning static present when listening with ground-based receivers.
• Thai Elephant Orchestra
  Elephants that play music!
• The Vinyl Anachronist
  "Collection of articles about vinyl, it's reproduction and it's asthetic value."
• Theater of Sound
  
• Theremin Lesson
  Quicktime file of professor Theremin giving a lesson on how to play his instrument
• Turntables
  Scratch simulator.
• Underwater Audio Monitoring
  Click on Sounds under Multimedia to see spectograms and hear the sounds of the sea.
• Voice of Music
  www.thevoiceofmusic.com is dedicated to fostering the interest in collecting and restoring V-M products, and to preserve the memory of V-M Corporation's role in history.
• Whitney Museum - Bitstreams
  
• Wolverine Antique Music Society
  Wanna know something about shellac? Look here.
• Zappa Patio