Slightly too spooky

posted by Rob on November 14, 2007 09:31 PM

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So, I tend to let my phone wake me up in the mornings. I had a terrible Nokia phone for a while that would play gentle, increasingly complex but softly tentative string sounds which I really liked - but that was the only thing the device was good for. My current phone is good in all the many ways the Nokia was bad, but it tends to wake me up with a bit less sophistication. So when I heard an interesting sound in a movie, I decided to try turning it into an alarm for my phone. You'd be amazed, or perhaps you wouldn't, at how easily one can turn a Hollywood DVD into a ringtone if you apply the right pieces of hackery (rather than just record the noise coming out of the speakers I mean). But it's no good; the sound that seemed interesting and pleasantly hooty in my living room seems troubling and creepy when I'm fast asleep. If anyone can tell me what the sound is they can win a glorious prize (which I will not name as it might be too much of a clue to the answer) The first thing I hear.

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Comments: 4


Is it the distress beacon from Icarus 1 in Danny Boyle's "Sunshine"? Nothing like a jolt of space-slasher adrenalin to get you up in the morning.


Hold on, maybe it's the ping emitted by the "face" structure that swallows Gary Sinise in "Mission to Mars"! Do I win?


Paul, your first guess is correct! But I'm afraid your second one is not, which brings the average down a bit. So that's an overall score of 50%. Will be in touch regarding glorious prize (or 50% thereof)


Takes a lot more than that to wake me up!

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