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guywithganja t1_iu2ennx wrote

Reply to comment by itchy_008 in TIL about anti ninja floors in Japan. They were purposefully made to squeak as to alert people of intruders. by tpb01

The famous sound effect from Law & Order, "The Clang" is supposedly made up of the sound of (among other things) 500+ Japanese monks walking across such a Nightingale floor.

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DonutCola t1_iu4rqc5 wrote

Do you not realize how stupid that theory is?

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MyNameIsRay t1_iu4u0qy wrote

It's not a theory, it's what the composer (Mike Post) says he did to create it when interviewed about it.

”Post synthesized his chung CHUNG electronically, combining six or seven different sounds to get the right dead-bolt effect. One of the eeriest adds: the sound of 500 Japanese men stamping their feet on a wooden floor. ”It was a sort of monstrous Kabuki event,” he says. ”Probably one of those large dance classes they hold. They did this whole big stamp. Somebody went out and sampled that.”

https://ew.com/article/1993/02/26/law-orders-tune/

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DonutCola t1_iu4y300 wrote

Yeah bro there were “6 or 7 different sounds synthesized together” and ONE of the 7 sounds was 500 dudes stomping. That’s like 15% of the sound lmao. You’re 15% right and I’m 85% right. Rip.

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Penquinn14 t1_iu55j53 wrote

You corrected them when they already said that there were other sounds used as well as the 500 men

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MustacheEmperor t1_iu6p9af wrote

> is supposedly made up of the sound of (among other things)

100% a dunce. Go get your pointy hat.

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