In 2015, I released many themed “packages” of ASMR ringtones, including sounds for different kinds of notifications and alarms. With a ringtone package, a user could customise her phone so that all of its sounds followed on a theme.
My 2015 themes included:
- BITS BLISS
- CRYPTONES
- INB4 SHUSH
- NORMIE TONES
- OBJECT-ORIENTED ALERTS (OOA)
- SHUSH ALPHA
- SHUSH SPA
- TONAL QUESTIONS
- VENTURE TONES
In 2017, I re-released my initial ringtones, along with several more themes:
- BAYESIAN SHUSH
- RARE EARTH TONES
- SHUSH BASILISK
- SHUSH VULN
- SHUSH YOKE
- TRUTH TO SHUSH
Some of my favorite tones are below as .mp3s. They’re licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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“MY NEW STARTUP ON THE BLOCKCHAIN” (2015)
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“SUMMONING, SUMMONING” (2015)
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“inb4 CONSCIOUSNESS” (2015) (intended as alarm)
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“MY MONARCH, ELON MUSK. OUR MONARCH, ELON MUSK, AND HIS BODY. ELON MUSK, OUR MONARCH, OUR LEVIATHAN” (2015)
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“SOFTWARE IS EATING THE WORLD” (2015)
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“TOO BUSY TO BUILD THE HYPERLOOP” (2015)
I’ve had many people tell me that ringtones “aren’t a thing any more”, but on Android you can customize your notification sounds with almost laughable granularity – why not give it a try? I hope to re-release SHUSH TONES in the future, but in the meantime, if you’d like some additional soothing sounds for your phone, please write me.
For reference, the wayback machine has a semi-functional version of the original SHUSHTONES website (sans some functionality and styling) availble here. The website was built in 2015 and revisited / redesigned in 2017 for an exhibition at Panke Gallery, Berlin. [press]
12.31.17