How are sound effects created?
After a fair amount of informal research, I believe most popular sound effects are created and spread spontaneously. One person starts a sound effect, one or two observers note the effect and like it, so they begin using it, and as others notice, general usage increases. (Much like that annoying series of shampoo commercials many years ago “…and THEY tell two friends – and so on, and so on, and so on…”) Each sound effect has its own story of origin. I happened to be present at the time and place a relatively recent sound effect – “My peas are frozen!” (for the A2 call,”Mini Busy”) – came into being. The origin of My Peas Are Frozen! In July of 1999, at the IAGSDC Convention in Los Angeles, I was dancing in the C1 hall with Joe & Jenny Dadek from Stanford Quads. We three tend to be a bit boisterous when we’re having fun (who, me?). The C1 room and the other dancers were fairly quiet during that particular session, as it was early in the morning. Joe, Jenny and I were getting bored (
