I think they're a real treat, and every time I find a new spot I let out a joyous noise akin to a schoolboy's pubescent sqwark.
To begin with, the sound seems to be a live recording – sea birds, a white noise akin to the sea, a shock wave and the blast of the explosion itself, aeroplane engines.
The sounds were described by the Bureau who were based at Observatory Hill, next to the southwest pylon of the Bridge, in 1947 as a "terrific noise" akin to "several trains ... passing over [the Bridge]".
They also enjoy a good siesta on a handy branch, and when they are happy, they emit a cute little noise akin to a piglet's snort.
I nod seriously, but inside my head there is nothing beyond a light pinging noise akin to the sound made by a smoke detector with a low battery.
The upper left panel shows an array of random numbers called white noise, the upper middle panel shows numbers in a fractal pattern called pink noise, and the upper right panel shows brown noise, akin to one-dimensional Brownian motion.
Hacking a melon with a pick axe will give you the perfect squelchy noises akin to a Necromorph's skull being caved in.
Recently, our three-year-old Cuisinart coffee maker started making noises akin to a strangled parrot, and then ended its life with a theatrical puff of smoke, like a magician's finale.
At full throttle, the cream puff makes a conspicuous noise, something akin to the Daytona Speedway on race day.
In 1948, Claude Shannon famously produced a diagram (Fig. 2) that depicts six boxes: an information source (later referred to by others as "sender" or "actor"), a transmitter (which produces the signal), a channel, a noise source that impacts the channel, a receiver (akin to sensory receptors), and a destination (later referred to as the "receiver" or "recipient").
