In the early days of hip hop, break dancers would perform on flattened cardboard boxes to beating boom boxes. Fast-forward a few decades and check how German art director Bartek Elsner has combined ...

This sound captures the tactile moment when a cardboard container opens, starting with a distinct mechanical click as the stiff flaps disengage. The initial snap is sharp enough to punctuate a ...

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Look at any one of Zimoun’s sound installations, you’ll see much of the same thing. Lots of cardboard, lots of motors and a drug store’s worth of cotton balls. Every so often there will be water or ...