""When I was growing up - [and] I think about this all the time - if a David Byrne interview or a Mark Mothersbaugh interview came on the radio or whatever, I really consumed every word of it,""
""It was as important as whatever they were promoting. I already had the album, but I wanted to hear what went into this record.""
""It was a feeling of something that was missing,""
""I just remember sound effects - or specifically haunted mansion albums were just around. It was a little bit of a nagging whim. Like, 'Huh, whatever happened to those? Where do the new ones live? Where do people get sound effects now?' I'm sure there is a place, but it didn't feel like there was a hard-copy version. I'm sure there are sound libraries you could go to online, but I was like, 'Where's the actual album?' It ju""
Fred Armisen is a veteran comedian known for long runs on Saturday Night Live, Portlandia, and a role in Netflix's Wednesday. He created 100 Sound Effects, an album that catalogs highly specific noises from settings such as music venues, stores, airplanes, and haunted houses. Track titles include detailed, situational labels like an employee ejecting patrons and overhead compartment closings. Nostalgia for haunted-mansion sound-effect albums and a desire for a tangible, hard-copy collection motivated the project. Armisen values interviews and sees conversations about creative work as meaningful extensions of the release process.
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