I like making weird noise music involving samples. Some of my favorites have been sample CDs from the 90s, and using archive.org to look through PSAs and old news broadcasts. But it’s really difficult finding anything good in the piles of just…local community radio and the mountains of college lectures. I like finding stuff that’s really eerie or odd, like that one recording of that time the US tried scaring the Viet Cong with scary ghost noises (which didn’t work lmao :uncle-ho-2: )

Does anyone else have a more streamlined approach or do any of y’all have any favorite media that’s esoteric/creepy?

  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    recording of that time the US tried scaring the Viet Cong with scary ghost noises

    :fedposting: hueuhahaehuaehheuauaeheau. ok let me add some sound effects to that, this’ll surely scare them

    edit: this paragraph lmao

    An example of the ghost tape being used effectively, was when the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion[4] mixed an authentic tiger roar during a time when North Việt Cộng soldiers were being attacked by tigers near a mountain. The 6th PSYOP got their information from a Việt Cộng defector by the name of Chiêu Hồi. With this information and a new recording, they sent soldiers behind enemy lines up a mountain passage with the task of playing this new ghost tape. After the 6th PSYOP played this recording, reportedly 150 Việt Cộng soldiers decided to leave their position on the mountain in fear of being killed by tigers. That is just one of many examples of the ghost tape being used effectively.[citation needed]

    motherfuckers are literally being attacked by real-ass tigers and these fucking nerds think that they left because of a fake tiger and not the real ones

    assuming the story is even remotely based in anything that happened, considering it has no sources at all. you’d think if it were totally made up though they’d make up a story that doesnt make them look fucking stupid lol

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      the ghost tape allegedly never worked to make the Viet Cong abandon their positions, instead they’d just open fire on the Americans lmao

      probably because uhhh the Vietnamese soldiers realized the sounds were audio broadcasts from speakers attached to boats or helicopters. American soldiers thought so little of the Vietnamese they thought enemy soldiers would hop out of their shoes and say zoinks g-g-g-ghosts and then run away with a little dust cloud. America was so racist they made continual severe tactical mistakes against a smaller, less technologically equipped army and then lost :uncle-ho: