His nephew, Professor Taru Ifukube, inspired by his uncle, is the composer of the official NHK (state broadcaster) earthquake alarm sound, created to be audible to a wide range of hearing, even in noisy situations and across long distances. The tune is also deliberately so unpleasant and nasty sounding that no human would play it deliberately or as part of other music. You can hear it orchestrated as an experiment here. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f719140a6c1d6fbce1151b0f2a4b0c4769ef5cc2137b889fec7b5f4e5b03dcab.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/86dbf7f42d4a14b179da0a162abbe15911b0ee84df634dbc23cadbc53e6ea3fc.file

Akira Ifukube (1914-2006) is best known in the West for composing the score to the movie Godzilla, but in Japan he is the author of 管弦楽法, the canonical textbook on orchestral composition. A musical autodidact who trained as a forestry engineer, he wrote most of it during his war service and later in hospital recuperating from radiation poisoning. In 1946 he packed the almost finished manuscript and all his notes into a trunk that fell of a train, forcing him to walk along the rail track to recover what he could of the scattered pages. The accident set him back five years. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6010844230af6d9846d7115ab985d8b12b9a4740a46769b40d175c41aceb69b8.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/19602e3944c6f57b4ea69045dcde54ab466661260c7cf0c20e7ed7b1803fb0dc.file