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Keeping the previous Dares of the 'friction' theme open so people can continue th upload sounds, if they wish.

For the next challenge, I propose that we record cardboard.
I included paper also, for completeness, but really I think cardboard is where the interesting sounds are.
Why?
Because I realized sometime ago that cardboard is surprisingly resonant. Hitting, tapping or rubbing a cardboard box or even just a cardboard panel can often produce a sound with more resonance and sustain than one would initially expect. These sounds can be useful in themselves, but they also lend themselves to further processing.

Paper is generally not so able to resonate so the range of sounds is more limited, but can offer some variety in terms of thickness, hardness and texture.

RULES:
- We are looking for unprocessed (i.e., natural) recordings. Processing is not allowed.
- Record sounds created by friction between 2 objects where at least one of the objects is made of paper or cardboard.
- Please tag your uploads with "Dare2025-10" and "friction"
- In the description include as much detail as possible about the material (e.g., "thick cardboard box" or "thin cardboard sheet") and what objects you used to rub against it (e.g. "fingers", "polished stone", "rough stone", "coin" . Remember that the type of surface is important so you may want to describe surfaces (consider words such as soft, hard, polished, dry, wet, rugged, grooved, etc).
- Consider describing where you rubbed the object (e.g. outside, inside, edge)
- You may want to do more than one take with the same object in the same recording, and variate a parameter. Explain this in the description, for example "rubbing a round polished stone on a thick cardboard box. Rubbed the edge, then the inside and then the outside of the box."
- ANYTHING NOT SPECIFICALLY FORBIDDEN BY THE RULES IS ALLOWED.
- ANYTHING NOT SPECIFICALLY REQUIRED BY THE RULES IS NOT MANDATORY.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: OPEN DARE = NO DEADLINE

Kidding, but
https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/809153/ Paper rubbing bass guitar string.
https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/810422/ Cardboard rubbed by a beyblade
One step ahead

Here are a few contributions

https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/812966/ Cardboard and paper rubbing.
https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/813167/ Cardboard and nails
https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/812964/ Rubbing a cash note.
https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/812963/ Freedsound's business card handling noise.

Cheers!

https://freesound.org/people/luamoon/sounds/813134/
i have no other cardboard object so i rubbed a pencil against a cardboard pizza dominos box

orange juice

Processing is not allowed

Is any of the following okay?

• adding metadata to the file
  
• encoding without data loss (Zoom H2n 24bit 96kHz WAV to 24bit 96kHz FLAC - I hope I'm not opening a can of worms here)
  
• normalizing the recording
  
• cutting away stuff (touching mic, moving around) at the start and end of the recording
  
• cutting away stuff in the middle of the recording

I think processing here means adding effect.
Including compression limiters filters etc...
Gain and trim doesn't really affect the sound, id imagine WAV / FLAC or even MP3 to be the same kind of deal.

Cheers!

Great! I'm throwing my box into the race:

Grinding Friction Foley

I genuinely miss our dares. Someone needs to analyze what happened. Ola partner AlienXXX.

Hope not to speak too much on their behalf.
But recently there wasn't that many participants and uploads, so why organise a thing in a vacuum?

Some dares are still open, Alien had a project with the friction series of Dares to sound design from a mixture of the friction series.

Dare 2025 10 ( Friction paper/cardboard) https://freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/45084/
Dare 2025 09 ( Friction Metal ) https://freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/45047/
Dare 2025 08 ( Friction Fabrics) https://freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/45024/
Dare 2025 08A ( Sound design from dare 0 https://freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/45049/

I think, monthly dares may be too much to be engaging given the number of people there is.
I may pick up a tri monthly dares I'll need to discuss with Alien a bit more.

Feel free to leave Dares ideas too !
Cheers!