The Freesound Project — fairly well-known in the Creative Commons community — is a collaborative database of sounds contributed by users under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. Freesound deals only in sounds — for instance the most popular downloads at the moment include recordings of a heart beat and a thunder storm. They’re paired up with ccMixter, another Creative Commons audio site that focuses more on music samples and mixes.
A ways back Freesound put out an open invitation to a mass recording in Caixa Forum, Barcelona. It’s not clear how many people showed up but it sounds like a fairly large crowd, and they got some interesting recordings of things like mass kissing, mass orgasm-ing, and mass playing-with-cellphones. It’s a little creepy at first listening to a room full of sentient monkeys making a lot of seemingly intelligent noise, but it gets even better when these samples are remixed. A “Remix the People” contest was launched back in November — here’s a sample:
AUDIO [Remix the People, 1st entry]
The competition ends 31 December and word is spreading, so hopefully it will pick up; I’ll be following it to see what happens. Either way check out the results from the mass recording — all 450 MBs of it — at Freesound. More contest info and submissions in the forum:
AUDIO [mass recording results]
LINK/AUDIO [Freesound Forum, Remix the People thread]
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Funny, i got a mail from The Freesound Project at 07:20 this morning, turns out I’m a member. Just can’t remember why, when or how.
have you checked out cc mixter?
Ouch, they weren’t down when I posted.
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