The Free Sound Project

While looking for some sound for my video installation soundtrack I came across this site. Its search functions are fantastic and the sounds are generally of high quality. This is a nice project which was started in the context of ICMC 2005 (international computer music conference of Barcelona), and is a website for creative-commons licensed audio material exchange. It’s the Flickr for sound samples.



The Freesound Project

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs.
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to:

• browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing and more
• up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
• interact with fellow sound-artists!

We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research. Many audio research institutions have trouble finding correctly licensed audio to test their algorithms. Many have voiced this problem, but so far there hasn't been a solution.


URL: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php