The sound has a strange rhythm, like an otherworldly techno song. It clicks and chirps like an enormous insect making its was across the world. Faint whistles echo in the distance. An indistinct tune crawls slowly over the rest of the sound, almost as if coming from a dying radio. A pulsating electronic tone occasionally rises up like the excited squeals of a robot hoping to sing along the odd tune. The pace is zippy, never resting too much on one sound or another. A tapping noise, like the frantic typing of Morse code, is always present in the sound. A short piano tune occasionally escapes over the clamor of other noises. The way every sound works together (or in some cases, don’t) is what makes this work. Taken all together, the sounds could be interpreted as many different things; an enormous computer efficiently typing out messages to all of its clients; a platoon of soldiers attempting to decode a password and escape the enemy fortress as sirens blare at them; a group of astronauts communicating with an alien race as their vessel floats around in the vast space around them; a rat attempting to force its way through a futuristic laboratory. This sound is a beautiful hodgepodge of taps, whistles, squeaks, and many other sounds.
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