Reddit reviews The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
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You should check out The Sound Book, it's all about these types of locations. The author, Trevor Cox, goes and visits a bunch of places with weird echos or really long reverb times and has a bunch of cool analysis and discussion of them.
Art above is from Mike Franchina.
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Palla Grande commences. A bogatyr in a torn pink bathrobe many sizes too small hefts a folio of living flesh through an assembled mass of celebrants, largely unnoticed admidst the dark kaleidoscope of costumes and revelry. The bogatyr kneels before a cluster of debating Tzimisce awaiting the blood bath ritae, imparting the script to a horned, skull-faced zhupan in a long robe. The puzzled zhupan accepts the gift, leafing through the volume while muttering incredulously at the amazing passages of brilliance, and then gracefully excuses itself to adjourn to the rooftop. The volume is cast into a mote of flame, placed before the crescent moon vozhd playing the role of the “large ball” itself. The fire leaps and twists, but the practiced zhupan fights the urge to frenzy with the memories of fire dances felt through the centuries past. The screaming, charred flesh of the folio burns and the vozhd inhales the rising ash. The eyes blink out the scores:
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Actually following the rules of the contest (all entries should be submitted on the JustTzimisce subreddit):
MrWideside (breathes and wheezes loudly): 10
Indridkuld (pipe organ and Mongolian throat singing): 10
BloodOfVoids (clicks and grinding and flesh noises): 10
D20Lo (flrrrrrrpblt): 10
Superbestnotfine (as cited previously in the “Tzimisce Turbo” thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPnOrwE5jBs&feature=youtu.be&t=26m03s): 10
Asuritos (Never any sound): 10
Xedefer (Wheezing, clattering, sloshing of flesh): 10
TheTitanofApathy (Cracking bones and joints, grinding teeth, soft sobbing): 10
LaRoienJaune (wide variety of old-timey Barbershop Quartet songs): 10
Yuraiya (Mr. Sandman in three part harmony): 0
Darklordofbunnies (Meat dubstep): 0
Heliand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5sUEqzcp8): 0
Sallajin ("Are you my mummy?"): 0
TempestStrike (Irritated gurgling sounds): 0
m30wm30wm30w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RL3ArJVFSw): 0
Nick__Frost: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTFdO4a_ew): 0
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The skill and complexity of the fleshcraft required to make the vozhd consistently produce the sound:
MrWideside (breathes and wheezes loudly): 2
Indridkuld (pipe organ and Mongolian throat singing): 7
BloodOfVoids (clicks and grinding and flesh noises): 3
D20Lo (flrrrrrrpblt): 4
Superbestnotfine (as cited previously in the “Tzimisce Turbo” thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPnOrwE5jBs&feature=youtu.be&t=26m03s): 3
Asuritos (Never any sound): 8
Xedefer (Wheezing, clattering, sloshing of flesh): 2
TheTitanofApathy (Cracking bones and joints, grinding teeth, soft sobbing): 4
LaRoienJaune (wide variety of old-timey Barbershop Quartet songs): 7
Yuraiya (Mr. Sandman in three part harmony): 8
Darklordofbunnies (Meat dubstep): 7
Heliand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5sUEqzcp8): 6
Sallajin ("Are you my mummy?"): 7
TempestStrike (Irritated gurgling sounds): 2
m30wm30wm30w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RL3ArJVFSw): 7
Nick__Frost: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTFdO4a_ew): 5
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Thematic relevance to the occasion of All Hallows Eve (disturbing or disquieting or inferentially sadistic, like pug inbreeding):
MrWideside (breathes and wheezes loudly): 6
Indridkuld (pipe organ and Mongolian throat singing): 4
BloodOfVoids (clicks and grinding and flesh noises): 6
D20Lo (flrrrrrrpblt): 2
Superbestnotfine (as cited previously in the “Tzimisce Turbo” thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPnOrwE5jBs&feature=youtu.be&t=26m03s): 5
Asuritos (Never any sound): 5
Xedefer (Wheezing, clattering, sloshing of flesh): 6
TheTitanofApathy (Cracking bones and joints, grinding teeth, soft sobbing): 6
LaRoienJaune (wide variety of old-timey Barbershop Quartet songs): 2
Yuraiya (Mr. Sandman in three part harmony): 2
Darklordofbunnies (Meat dubstep): 3
Heliand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5sUEqzcp8): 7
Sallajin ("Are you my mummy?"): 8
TempestStrike (Irritated gurgling sounds): 6
m30wm30wm30w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RL3ArJVFSw): 3
Nick__Frost: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTFdO4a_ew): 2
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Bonus style points for scientific detail, lore, humor, timelessness through future centuries, or onomatopoeia:
MrWideside (breathes and wheezes loudly): 5
Indridkuld (pipe organ and Mongolian throat singing): 6
BloodOfVoids (clicks and grinding and flesh noises): 5
D20Lo (flrrrrrrpblt): 8
Superbestnotfine (as cited previously in the “Tzimisce Turbo” thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPnOrwE5jBs&feature=youtu.be&t=26m03s): 5
Asuritos (Never any sound): 4
Xedefer (Wheezing, clattering, sloshing of flesh): 5
TheTitanofApathy (Cracking bones and joints, grinding teeth, soft sobbing): 5
LaRoienJaune (wide variety of old-timey Barbershop Quartet songs): 8
Yuraiya (Mr. Sandman in three part harmony): 8
Darklordofbunnies (Meat dubstep): 6
Heliand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5sUEqzcp8): 4
Sallajin ("Are you my mummy?"): 4
TempestStrike (Irritated gurgling sounds): 6
m30wm30wm30w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RL3ArJVFSw): 6
Nick__Frost: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTFdO4a_ew): 6