Mixtape: The Wandering Soul
Radiolab
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The Sound of a Tiger Growling on the Street
Producers could go out into the world and collect sound. Some of them even hopped on a plane to bangcok because they got a zoo there to record the sound of a tiger growling. This is sort of an early iteration of sound ass in for the voices. They hired actors, or maybe you grabbed the secretary from down the hall, got them to read a script, slapped a little echo on there. And after much trial and error, they'd created a ghost captured on magnetic tape.
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