There is this spot at work, outside an open doorway where they keep fax and copy machines, and there is an electronic singing sound that comes out of there that makes me see rainbows. I walk out of my way every time I leave my desk just to walk through this shimmer of sound. (If you want to hear something very like it, listen to the static in the first 30 seconds of (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan, by DNTEL.)
There is also a glorious noise at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, when the table that tells you what track the trains are on changes. It is an older table, and instead of being digital, it is a bunch of little character cards that flip. When it changes, they all start to flip real fast then slow down until there is only one left. People who think rainsticks are cool would really enjoy that noise. It is one of my own personal favorites.
And since it is winter time, if you happen to be over Robbie and Stephen J.'s house, they have a kerosene heater that, when you turn it on, makes this amazing bendy metaly whale sound. Oh man! It is all curved and echoing, like listening inside a shell. But it only does it for less than a minute, so you have to be there at the right time. I think it is one of the most beautiful sounds in pretty much the entire world.
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