The phrase "sound random" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means that something seems haphazard or lacking a clear pattern or logic. Example: "His explanation for why he chose that course of action sounded random and didn't make much sense to me."
That might sound random, but as journalism professor George Brock often says, journalists "throwing spaghetti at walls" to find out what sticks will result in survival.
On paper, the images sound random but Vincent choreographs with such a specific attention to gesture, atmosphere and motive that in performance they feel part of a fully imagined world.
"Ersatz G.B.," out this week, is the Fall's twenty-ninth album, performed by what seems like its thousandth incarnation, and it's more of the same, in a sense: Mark E. Smith's brilliant grumbling, heard over jagged riffs that sound random at first and hypnotic soon enough.
By The New Yorker November 28, 2011 "Ersatz G.B.," out this week, is the Fall's twenty-ninth album, performed by what seems like its thousandth incarnation, and it's more of the same, in a sense: Mark E. Smith's brilliant grumbling, heard over jagged riffs that sound random at first and hypnotic soon enough.
"Once you saw the instructions — 'Incorporate silence,' or that everyone was to tune his instrument a little off-key and think about a certain thing, or in a piece of electronic music that hitting a particular key triggered a series of notes — it might still sound random or chaotic or like cats walking across a piano, but the means became fascinating to me," he said.
The materials sound random, dimensionless, adrift, like a wind chime.
As you move through the room, your motions set off sounds, random memories escaping its past.
Each leads to a darkened chamber with a surreal feature or special effect a mirrored floor; crumpled papers strewn about; a giant empty chair; electronic plopping sounds; random bric-a-brac (a toy revolver, a light bulb, rubber spiders, a Rubik's Cube) dangling from the ceiling that pertains to a period or to a theme.
Each leads to a darkened chamber with a surreal feature or special effect — a mirrored floor; crumpled papers strewn about; a giant empty chair; electronic plopping sounds; random bric-a-brac (a toy revolver, a light bulb, rubber spiders, a Rubik's Cube) dangling from the ceiling — that pertains to a period or to a theme.
I slid quite nicely, which sounds random, and I felt fine.
A single scene containing 3, 4, or 5 sounds (random across trials) was presented on each trial.
