This open caption generator produces the captions for sound effects. Similar to the Imaginary Color Name Generator, it asks viewers to imagine the subject of the text—in this case sound, rather than color. There are hundreds of thousands of unique combinations of images and text, resulting in an infinitely variable video of imagined sound effects and accompanying narratives.
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While living in Germany during the summer of 2023, I collected audio samples from the Berlin Wall by attaching a contact microphone to the exposed rebar of the original sections of wall and then hitting the rebar with my finger. The resulting resonant sounds resembled the bells that regularly chime around Europe. I arranged the sounds in intervals based on standard carillon peals used at times of celebration. This site allows individuals and groups to create their own cacophonous noise.
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