I like the sound of leaf cutter ants trying to eat the windsock of my microphone.
I like the sounds of tons of frogs mating.
I like the sounds of really fucking bad Latin pop music being blasted at epic volumes through utterly distorting homemade speakers sitting outside shop fronts.
I like quietness.
I like the sound of lightening storms in the jungle at night and the hissing roar of distant howler monkeys.
Like the sounds my friends make, when their making music, and when their not making music as well.
I like the many sounds you hear while inside a bus going fast on the motorway.
I like sounds I cant identify.
I like the sound of things breaking and the sounds that are mistakes.
I like the sound of sound recording equipment and media itself.
I like the sounds of my body and other people’s bodies to.
I like the sound of stones.
I like the way things sound at really high altitudes, if they sound any different at all?
I like very low sounds and very high sounds and I like sound between very long and very high sounds as well.
I like sounds beyond human hearing range like bats and other insects, electromagnet and radio phenomena from the magnetosphere and beyond.
I like the sound of empty rooms.
There’s a bird, I think its called Orioles, which build hanging nests in tall trees in the Amazon region, and I like the sounds they make to.
I like the sound of the desert wind.
I like really really loud sounds, which I like even more when they are produced without the aid of amplification, like bagpipes or the sound of thousands upon thousands of squawking parrots, but amplified loud sounds are ok to.
I like the sound of a musician makes when they completely loosing themselves in it.
I like the sounds make when cooking good food, as well as the sound you hear when you eat good food.
I like how sound sounds when you’re anticipating hearing it.
I like sound that makes me feel happy, and in turn I feel happy about liking sound.
I like the sound of speakers.
I like the sound of sounds once they have being through about the place.
I like the sounds of insects and owls.
I like the sounds of leafhoppers, both they loud sounds they make and the quiet vibrations they send through the leaf trigs they sit on.
I like the sound of people who 'cant make music' making music and loving it.
I love the sound of the sub bass rumblings of some action movie coming through the wall while your watching another movie in a cinema next door and it happening at a really funny moment in the movie I am watching.
I like the sound of strings.
I like the sound of tuning instruments, especially the tuning of an orchestra; it’s my favourite part of going to see a classical orchestra play.
I like the sound of tuning an instrument using your ear and not a fucking tuning pedal until its pitch perfect and I like the sound of all the harmonic variations in between each set note in a conventional scale. I like the sound of a musician who doesn’t give a fuck about tuning.
I like the surprising sounds.
I like the sound of computers that sound like they are taking control of themselves.
I like the sound of dirty potentiometers and rattling tweeters.
I like the sound of objects in the room rattling when you play music to loud.
I like finding the resonating frequencies of things.
I like walking and how the sounds around you change as you walk and the perception of your surroundings you gain from sensing these changes in the sounds.
I like the sound of night-time.
I like the sound of things slowed down and I also speed up.
I like sounds in mono and in surround sound.
I like the sound of homemade synths and home made distortion pedals.
I like the sound of people being nice to other people.
I liked the sound of the old Brazil cafe coffee machine in the late morning when I come in for a coffee.
I like the variations in sound quality between two seemingly the same instruments.
I like the sound of cheap electric guitars.
I like the sound of motorcarros (motorbike taxi's), especially sped up.
I like the sounds make when its really windy in Myers park and you can hear these 4 whistling tones coming from the air conditioning vents of the fire station and also the sound of the old st Kevin’s arcade grill at 3am in the morning.
I like the sound of the fire alarm echoing through st Kevin’s arcade.
I like the sound of old airplanes with propellers instead of turbo engines.
I like the sound of smoking a cigarette.
I like the sound of rain, anywhere, anytime.
I like the sound of fire.
I like the sound of cartoons.
I like the sound of donkeys.
I like the sound of market places.
I like the sound of galactic pulsars; especially the super fast ones that make you feel dizzy thinking about them.
I like the sound of microphones being through around the place or swung round and round and round.

But what I really like most of all is the sounds of electric guitars and amplifiers :)

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Sam Hamilton is an experimental musician and artist from Auckland, New Zealand. His work ranges the gamut between joyful meaningless free noise music making chaos through to Expanded Cinema like explorations into live performative cinema with antique film equipment, rich textural electronic music to deconstructive improvisations with acoustic objects.
his enthusiasm for a large range of mediums and forms of musical expression have led him to work and collaborate with a diverse range of musicians, artists, scientists, film makers and other such good peoples of the world.
He is Currently working on a 4 month long project making field recordings in various regions of the Amazon forests and other ecological regions of South America through Brazil, Columbia and Peru.
Sam is also an active member of the New Zealand experimental music and art communities where he is very involved with organising a great number of diverse events and festivals which has included directing festivals and programs of experimental music, experimental film and live cinema plus many other activities involving many different parts of the New Zealand creative community.