With many starting a new school year and returning to classrooms, I wanted to curate and assemble a part 2 to help you with studying, focusing, relaxing, or sleeping. My part 1 post can be found here.Like my first masterpost, everything’s been hyperlinked for your convenience and credited to the original creator. There’s also no talking or people like in traditional ASMR videos. Instead, they’re carefully layered sounds with accompanying audiovisuals. Please be sure to support the original creators by checking out their channels, subscribing, liking, commenting, becoming Patreons, etc! Let me know if this masterpost was useful for you and I’ll make a part 3 in the future, enjoy and happy listening ♡
ComposerJohnnyrandom breaks new ground with musical compositions made exclusively from everyday objects. His debut single, “Bespoken”, explores the full potential of sounds generated from bicycles and their components, transcending the role of traditional instrumentation as the accepted method for creating beautiful and thought-provoking music.
Andalite who plays with mouth sounds not by going “Bunzuh. Bunnnzuuuuhhhhh.” but instead plays with them like “Humid. Human. Humidor. Humus? No, humus is a different sound. Huuuman. Huuumid. They must be related somehow… Humidifier. Makes things huuumid. Humanifier? Ew. Who would want to be human? But then humidor…”
You think different andalites have favourite mouth sounds?
Andalite 1: Sussspiciouss! Ssand! Ssssalty
Andalite 2: I like that sound too! Zzzesty! Zzeeebra!
I am in love with the sounds that spill from eager lips. The cries, the groans, and the moans. The gasps, the sighs, the audible glisten when your tongue slips over your lips. The sound of a minuscule bubble breaking as you open your mouth, cracking the air with a hairline fracture. The clatter of your teeth against a ball gag.
You may ask, then, with your eager hand thrust towards the ceiling, desperate anxiety on your face, why, then, I enjoy the gags so much, why I would muffle and mute those sounds that I have so professed my love for. And it is a good question. You may sit back down now.
It’sprecisely because it mutes and muffles. These sounds I obsess over, spend such time eking out of your body. So to be able to manipulate and alter them, produce new sounds to listen to… why on earth would I not? To hear that tiny cry you make when I lay my hands on you, only to have the sound submerged behind a gag? Pure ecstasy, beautiful girl.
So even when you’re lying there, blind and mute, always know that I am listening. My ear to your mouth. Ready to drink in the sounds that I force from your body.
Ideophones are a word class (part of speech) that occur independently in some languages, mostly in Africa and in Asia. They can be quite extensive, like nouns and verbs, or they can be a small class. Ideophones are words which exhibit sound symbolism, are iconic, can involve onomatopoeias, and are frequently used in narrations, frequentely reduplicated, and show moods, states, forms, colours, movements, etc. They differ from interjection by the sound symbolism and non-isolate distribution (unlike interjections, which can stand alone like “ouch”).
Japanese is a good example: doki doki (ドキドキ) — heartbeat: excitement kira kira (キラキラ) — glitter shiin (シーン) — silence niko niko (ニコニコ) — smile Jiii (じ-) — stare
If you know more languages that use ideophones, please let me know, because there’s relatively few literature about this. Be aware that not all onomatopoeias are ideophones, though.
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According to the website:
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Just take a brief look at what the index page provides:
There’s something for EVERYONE. And it’s all for free! It’s been for free for years, and it is the creator’s wish that it remains accessible to everyone who might need this kind of aid in life. I am using it to write this post right now. Though if you read some of the above index, you may have noticed that the support for the website has been very low lately.
Which brings me to the reason I’m making this post. Mynoise is curated and maintained by a single person:
