Every pop-culture sound-design element gets its 15 minutes of fame, and sometimes even more. On the 25th anniversary of the *Law & Order* TV series, the show’s famous “clang,” or “chung chung,” has been stretched to 25 minutes by sound artist John Kannenberg. Kannenberg is pursuing a PhD focusing on the role of sound in the museum, but he’s clearly aware the that the court is just as fertile a bed for audio research as the art gallery. To listen to this stretched to such a length is to go inside the sound and peruse its details. The shimmery lattice of sound is akin to *The Matrix*’s bullet time crossed with an electron microscope. You get a sensory experience of every tiny undulation.
The original is archived at [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Clang_(from_Law_%26_Order).ogg).
Here as a bonus is a 20-minute talk Kannenberg gave recently on “Why Listen to Museums?”
Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/johnkannenberg](https://soundcloud.com/johnkannenberg/law-and-order-25). More from Kannenberg, who also runs the fine Stasisfield label, at [johnkannenberg.com](http://www.johnkannenberg.com/).