An audio engineer and composer living in Brooklyn, Charles Van Kirk tells stories with sound. Whether that's with household items or glaciers moving through Iceland; if it's for sample packs, films, or advertising, he leans on his intuition, inspiration, and musical ear to capture the hidden sonic qualities of any experience.
Household Percussion
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Musical textures from everyday items
Companion Packs
Office Percussion
In 2019, Splice sound designers recorded the sounds of the Splice HQ office in New York City, featuring tape dispensers, sugar packets, paper cutters, staplers, and more. The...
B-Spoke - Wheelchair FX
The things that make you different are your superpower. Those are the things that are not meant to be hidden, but expressed and shared with the world. B-Spoke Wheelchair FX i...
Home Quarantine Percussion
Percussionist Caleb Spaulding, while recovering from suspected Covid-19 related symptoms, explores the possibilities of field percussion while self-quarantining in his Brookl...
Car Sounds
Splice sound designers sampled the sounds of a classic 1991 Toyota Land Cruiser, recordings components inside and outside the vehicle using an AKG 414 and an x/y stereo pair....
Clocks and Alarms
ALERT!! WARNING! This comprehensive collection of designed and recorded alarm sounds covers all varieties of alarm: small and large, high tech, complex and simple, continuous...
Barn Percussion
Nature is full of rhythm, and it’s fun to get percussive with it. Recording tree tones, pond splashes, and rooster clucks in the Catskill mountains of NY state, Daniel Freedm...
Retail Sounds
This Field + Foley pack was recorded during the night shifts at hardware stores, grocery stores and fast food restaurants in Nashville, TN. The sounds capture the natural env...
Workplace SFX
This pack is a perfect compliment for any office, workplace or business scene. You’ll find the sound of printers, paper shredding, clocks ticking, telephones ringing, chairs ...
Human Nature
Splice sound designer Jonathan Rowden (Overworld Studio, California) presents Human Nature, a pack capturing humans in various states and spaces, with the specific goal of pr...
Indoor Gaming
This pack is an expansive collection of sounds from indoor games and sports. From cards, snooker, darts, and casino games, to sports such as basketball, boxing, training, hoc...
Tools & Machinery
This sample pack contains over five hundred individual tool sounds. There are plasma cutters, chainsaws, lawnmowers, hand tools and many, many others. These sounds were recor...
Household Foley
This extensive pack of 325 sounds features many sounds from around the house, from doors opening and closing, household machinery, toilets flushing, faucets running, cutlery&...
Jangleodean
Atop the Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles is Lovejoy’s Contraption Emporium. Founded by artist David Lovejoy, you’ll find eclectic creations throughout the gallery. Tuc...
ASMR Essentials
In ASMR Essentials, Splice teams up with Overworld Studios and Armenian folklorist, songwriter, performance and ECM artist Areni Agbabian. Areni, known for her work on highly...
Hotel Room Percussion
During the Covid pandemic when artists lacked the key ingredients to creativity of daily inspiration and human collaboration, Splice producer Josh Robertson and producer Cale...