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Trace that noise !

Really Magazine's  part competition, part psychology experiment, part timewaster.

Can you identify ludicrously short audio samples ? We think you can.

Each few days ( or so ) we will progressively increase its length until somebody wins ( or until our legal affairs dept. flag a possible copyright infringement )

The first person to correctly identify the sample ( a.k.a. The Winner ) will receive - by e-mail - a poster-sized copy of their cartoon of choice - which can be printed out just about any size your printer can manage. They're unavailable from any other source !

Here's the last sample.   (uses Flash),   

If you think you know what it is, go here , fill-in your details, and, of course, your answer.

( if you do decide to enter, please note that only the winner will receive a reply )

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Competitition #9

Was won, once again, by  Linda D, whoose finely honed audio recgonition skills correctly indentified this from all the other billions of possibilities.

Competitition #8 No one guessed it.

Remember actor Peter Finch  playing ' UBS Evening News'  anchor Howard Beale  in the film Network ?

Watch the clip here

Competitition #7 No one guessed it.

What could it be but the iniminimiitable Tommy Cooper chuckle ( go here for the classic TC sketch from whence it came )

Competitition #6 No one guessed it.

It was of course Risset's Continuous Scale ( link here courtsey of the Acoustical Society of America )

Competitition #5 was won by Linda D  , who correctly indentified. one of these . . .

Competitition #4 was won by Sam M  , who correctly indentified just 130 miiliseconds of . . . this . . .

Competitition #3 was won by James D  ! who correctly indentified just a few miiliseconds of . . . this . . .

Competitition #2 was also won by Linda D  ! who receives a full-res cartoon file of her choice, for correctly indentifying just a few miiliseconds of . . . this . . .

Competitition #1 was wone by Linda D, who receives a full-res cartoon file of her choice, for correctly indentifying the first few miiliseconds of . . . this . . .