Non-instrument sounds used in music
M.I.A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y
Kraftwerk:
Tour de France, use of bicycle/human sounds as part of a song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTe7U92ecX8
Autobahn, which I talked about but we didn’t listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DO-Ddqbqgs
Art of Noise is another band that used sampling to bring non-instrument noises to music:
Another song using the orchestral hit, Close (To the Edit): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU
German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten uses found objects for percussion and background tambre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfOahWNT_A
Cultural conflation
M.I.A. has western/asian drifter culture as part of a video shot in Morrocco in support of a movement to let women legally drive cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yuqxl284cg
Environmental sound
why is this machine so quiet?
what is all the computation happening in this machine?
how is this different from a Trader Joe’s microwave-meal-box?
Colorblind simulator
Maria asked a question about how to express color as sound. One place to start this sort of research is a colorblind simulator: https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator