My Retina Macbook Pro is making this weird noise

My recently purhcased 2.7 Retina Macbook Pro has made this noise a few times from awaking the computer from sleep. Does anyone know what it is?
http://www.sendspace.com/file/prlzhh

How do you turn them down or off? I don't even know how they turned on to begin with. They have never turned on before and I've had my Mac Pro for 3months. I just turn my Mac off it starts doing it again when I turn it back on

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I'm not at all experienced with getting inside a computer so I don't think I'll try touching it myself but it's good to learn what could be making the noise.
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Before begining, i appologize for gramar or spelling mistakes since I am French and English is not my first language.
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