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makes beautiful yet unsettling music
It’s just breathing. Sounds a bit wheezy. Maybe it has Covid? 
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It’s playing an E major interval, E to G# then back to E, across multiple octaves, with a particular harmonious upper octave E. I wonder if this is intentional by the designers, e.g. harmonic dampening.
Also, I would’ve loved to hear the death throes of the Tacoma-Narrows bridge!
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I used to live in Bayridge when I was a little kid. There was a park right at the base on the Brooklyn side that my dad took us to since you could walk there from our apartment (you could actually see the bridge from our apartment if you climbed the fire escape to the roof). I will attest to the fact that in high winds, that bridge did indeed sound haunted.
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That wobble gives me the willies. I mean I know they are made to do that, but still…
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Still not the craziest wobble. I think this one wins:
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I sense no dissonance. Oh, you sneaky bridge.
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It really sounds and looks like mits breathing. Spooky.
My facorite noisy structure is still the Beetham tower in Manchester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h12GbsLZNjk
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The song is “Tacoma Narrows Blues”.
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