whooshes

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In duet, sounds play off of one another in an electro-acoustic sparring contest, moderately dense scraping, whooshes, plinks and prods that are among the liveliest of the set.

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  • Bleak windy effects and cosmic whooshes bring up images of a strange alien landscape. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • After one ... two ... three deep breaths his field of vision expands, broadens until he can see the note beside the cuffs, can recognize the messy scrawl and then the air whooshes out of his lungs and a knot of tension breaks lose. —  Wraithbait
  • The air whooshes out of my lungs as I double over. —  Futurismic
  • Categories within the Blastwave FX collection include ambience, animals, impacts, guns, science fiction, whooshes and everything in between. —  PRWeb
  • It whooshes by so fast that you can't grasp what is really happening until everything is over. —  Daily Campus
 

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