Freesound Project Mass Recording

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]