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Freesound Hacks at Music Hack Day (S?nar Festival 2012, Barcelona)

Posted on June 18, 2012 by frederic.font

Last week took place the Music Hack Day in the context of the S?nar Festival in Barcelona. The Freesound team was present and showing some new functionalities we have been implementing for our API (check the developers page if you … Continue reading →

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The Sound Museum

Posted on May 12, 2012 by crodrigues

What if there was a place where sounds could be stored for future generations, like objects in a museum? Wait a minute… There is such a place: Freesound! I could ramble on and on about this but I won’t. Please … Continue reading →

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Sons de Barcelona (Sounds of Barcelona) wins one of the EngageU awards

Posted on April 27, 2012 by sonia.espi

We are very happy to announce that the project Sons de Barcelona (Sounds of Barcelona) has been selected as one of the winners of the ?EngageU awards?, a European competition looking for best innovations in university outreach and public engagement, … Continue reading →

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Freesound Survey

Posted on March 20, 2012 by frederic.font

Hello everyone, as most of you will know Freesound is a site that was started six years ago in the context of the?Music Technology Group?of the?Universitat Pompeu Fabra. One of the aims of the project was to create an open … Continue reading →

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Our friendly competitions (the Dares) roll on…

Posted on March 18, 2012 by crodrigues

This is really a short post aimed at anyone who has not yet heard of the ‘Dares’. These are friendly competitions that I run once a month. The themes change with every dares, essentially you are asked to do something … Continue reading →

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New Freesound T-Shirts!

Posted on March 2, 2012 by frederic.font

Hello everyone, We’re glad to announce that we have updated our Freesound t-shirts with the new logo! As you can see in the picture, new t-shirts are available in three different colors, men and women versions. They look amazing! Don’t … Continue reading →

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Looking for: movie/video work using freesound (with correct credits)

Posted on February 16, 2012 by bdejong

Hello all, On the 23rd of March I will be talking at the?International Film Forum?in?Udine-Gorizia, Italy. My talk will be about freesound in general and its usage in Film/Video. I’m looking for additional examples of correctly credited Freesound usage in … Continue reading →

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Dare 10 “The minimalist half-dozen ” is now open!

Posted on February 8, 2012 by crodrigues

At the moment the votes for dare 9 are being counted and considerable computing power is being used to calculate the points for each participant (what a complicated points system that was!) While this takes place in the background, the … Continue reading →

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Meet the daredevils !

Posted on January 7, 2012 by crodrigues

Dear Freesounders, We have recently closed dare 8. It was the first dare to hold a vote for the best entry. Here are the results: 1ST schluppipuppie 67 points 2ND hoscalegeek 63 points 3RD Thatjeffcarter 59 points 4TH afleetingspeck 58 … Continue reading →

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Freesound Christmas Special

Posted on December 21, 2011 by frederic.font

Dear Freesounders, It’s christmas time and the Freesound team has been working hard to bring some presents in the form of new functionalities and bug fixes to celebrate the occasion. First of all we implemented a couple of new features … Continue reading →

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