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Chimney Wind with Ceramic Taps and Coffee Pack Textures

An experimental layered soundscape built from everyday acoustic recordings. The foundation is the haunting sound of wind resonating through a chimney, enriched with the textured scratching of Nespresso coffee capsules and delicate finger taps on a ceramic plate. Together these ordinary sounds transform into an evolving ambient organic composition with experimental textures, and an atmospheric character. Suitable for experimental music, cinematic sound design, ambient compositions, and electro

field-recordingabstractambient
0:49

Footsteps on Forest Summer Leaves Granular Drone

An experimental soundscape created from recordings of footsteps crunching through dry summer leaves. The original rhythm is looped three times, while a deep atmospheric drone provides a continuous backdrop. Granular fragments and glitch-like textures extracted from the footsteps drift through the background, transforming a simple field recording into an evolving organic composition. Ideal for ambient music, experimental productions, cinematic sound design, horror, and nature-inspired audio pr

ambientatmosphericcinematic
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apoteg loop02

ancient bits of sound I had rendered a long time ago for a friend's music project I secretly collaborated on ;) These are old programmed synthesizers with heavy effects, each one slightly different. And they're perfectly loopable if you want!

apotegambientcreepy
2:02

Electronic Minute No 25 - Beware of the Vactrol

feedback loop involving Jupiter Storm, A-147-2VCDLFO and A-101-1 VACTROL VCF CV injected from 2 x Sloth and Intellijel Quadra Expander in quadra mood some spring reverb After ~1min I switch "noise core disruptor" (jupiter storm) off evaluation of patch/sound one cycle is about 28 sec - good only short sounds - bad amplitude variation - good pitch variation - good timbre variation - good musical value - low to medium entertaining - high, or what? Merry Christmas! :-)

analogelectroelectronic
0:53

Three Fast Synth Sounds

A rhythm midi made at the keyboard then processed three times with DN-e1 virtual synthesizer in MAGIX Music Maker daw and the three voices stacked together.

atmosphereattention-gettingbeat
0:58

Electronic Minute No 299 - Tonic The Horse Loop

Atonal modular synth melody.

analogatonalelectronic
1:32

Gnarly Sounding Electronic Loop

It's gnarly broh

ambientatmospherecreepy
0:53

Delayed Drops

A rhythm midi made at the keyboard then processed twice with through DN-e1 virtual synthesizer in MAGIX Music Maker daw and the two voices stacked together.

atmosphereattention-gettingbeat
0:25

MUSCSmpl_The Opposite Feeling.The Rough Drone 2_EM

Another experimental pad. It has a precisely tuned loop. I ask you, if possible, to help this wonderful site (not me) stay afloat and develop further. Make a donation https://freesound.org/donations/donate/ if my sounds helped or liked you. Freesound remains free of advertising, let's appreciate it together. Enjoy it! I hope that my sounds and phonograms will be useful in your creativity. Feel free to leave your comments with ratings, even if they are critical. Note: audio quality is always bett

ambientatmospherebed
0:26

Aminor (Am G F E - 110bpm)

Spanish style guitar in A minor. Am G F E chords. Fingerpicking and sampling. For your loopable pleasure

110bpmacousticcosy
2:04

2018-12-11-2

Live Recording Using: Arturia Minibrute Arturia Drumbrute Korg M3 Novation Circuit

analogarturiabeat
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destroyed glitchy impact fx -003

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
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destroyed glitchy impact fx -007

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:06

dark verb impact 4

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:06

dark impact verb percs 17 by CVLTIVR

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:03

dark verb impact 1

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:03

dark verb impact 2

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:06

dark verb impact 5

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:03

dark verb impact 7

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:01

destroyed glitchy impact fx -001

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:04

destroyed glitchy impact fx -004

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:01

destroyed glitchy impact fx -005

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:01

destroyed glitchy impact fx -006

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
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destroyed glitchy impact fx -010

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:05

destroyed glitchy impact fx -011

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
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destroyed glitchy impact fx -013

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:04

destroyed glitchy impact fx -016

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
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destroyed glitchy impact fx -018

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
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snap crack perc fx with verb -glitchid 001

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap
0:01

destroyed glitchy impact fx -008

a collection of glitch percussion sfx made using a myriad of software vsts and programs such as reaper, fl studio, zynaptiq, minimal audio, cableguys, denise biteharder, and more

abstractalienclap

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