I think I can...

The piece that I chose to listen to for this exercise was Bahnhof Auschwitz in der Nacht by Marcello Mercado.

As I am listening to this, I hear what sounds like water in a car wash. It gets louder and louder until I think it reminds me of a washing machine. I envision an open washing machine sloshing water and moving clothes around within it. I also think of teeth being brushed in a circular motion. Now the sloshing sound stops and begins to sound like water running in a shower, and makes me think of a shower even more when a man starts to sing to himself all of a sudden. Now all I hear are squeaking noises and a low beeping noise below it. The squealing reminds me of when my ears are ringing. It has now faded out.

I finally just allowed myself to scroll down in the information section, and in it, Mercado says that these were the sounds of the trains in the Auschwitz station at 11:30 at night. My mind is blown because I really thought that water had to be involved in it. I was so certain that bubbles were involved somewhere. What sounded like a clearly hygenic piece turned out to be a train station. It's so cool how very different, yet very similar sounds can be.

Here, go hear for yourself! Get some laundry done to it. Play with your old toy train. Brush your teeth. Whatever. Here's the link..just click on Marcello Mercado!

http://soundlab.newmediafest.org/index21.html