Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique concrète (1987)(mycpanel.princeton.edu) Musique Concrete is music made of raw sounds: thunderstorms, steam-engines, waterfalls, steel foundries... The sounds are not produced by traditional acoustic musical instruments. They are captured on tape (originally, before tape, on disk) and manipulated to form sound-structures.
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"You've Got " AOL sound files(aolsucks.org) In 1995, Wired magazine's AOL forum located Elwood Edwards -- whose voice recorded the sound file "You've Got Mail" -- and had him record ten additional sound files.
How the McLaren F1 got it's sound(soundcloud.com) Excerpt from panel discussion on "What makes a supercar?" held by Auto® 2012 automotive design conference in Zagreb, Croatia. Peter Stevens, designer of McLaren F1 speaks on how McLaren F1 got it's sound.