Hi everyone!
The Freesound Day is getting closer, and we are now able to announce the programme. For those who don’t know, the Freesound Day is an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Freesound, and which will feature both the Freesound team and members of the community. Participants will share their personal and professional experiences with the platform, as well as highlight various projects that have emerged around it. It will happen on the 28th of October 2025, at the Sala Aranyó of the Campus del Poblenou of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Even though the event will take place physically at the campus of our university in Barcelona, we are organising it so that online participation is possible.
The programme has been configured over the last months, and includes both invited talks and also the talks resulting from the Call for Talks announced in the Freesound blog some months ago. For those who can’t attend on the 28th of October, we’ll also make the talks available online later this year. The programme also includes a listening session of a selection of pieces from the Freesound 20th anniversary composition contest that was also announced earlier this year.
We hope you’ll enjoy that day and join us to celebrate Freesound!
How to attend?
- If you are attending the event in person, please register following this link: https://eventum.upf.edu/139645/detail/freesound-day.html (attendance is free). The event happens at Sala Aranyó of the Campus del Poblenou of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, Spain.
- If you are attending remotely, all you need to do is to join this Zoom meeting room: https://upf-edu.zoom.us/j/93968998691 (the room will be open 15 minutes before the start of the event)
Programme
Session 1 (10h-11:40h CET)
| Frederic Font, Bram de Jong & Xavier Serra (frederic.font, Bram, xerra) | 20 years of Freesound: past, present and future |
| Alastair Porter (alastairp) | Freesound: under the hood |
| Sadiquecat (sadiquecat) | Freesound moderation |
| Panagiota Anastasopoulou (allholy) | Navigating sound collections: Implementing the Broad Sound Taxonomy in Freesound |
| Laura Llaneli (sonsdebarcelona) | Sons de Barcelona |
| Carlos Casas (BESTIARI) | BESTIARI |
Session 2 (12h-13:30h CET)
| Mohammad Balawneh (sounds_from_palestine) | Palestine in Field Recordings |
| klankbeeld (klankbeeld) | The art of general noise |
| Félix Blume (felix.blume) | A starting point for a listening journey… |
| Kevin LUCE (kevp888) | My journey with Freesound |
| Simon Law (Eldoodereeno) | Sounds in the key of life |
| Anna Xambó Sedó (sensingtheforest) | Sensing the Forest: Exploring Climate Change Through Soundscape Datasets from DIY Streamers at Alice Holt Forest |
Session 3 (15h-17:20h CET)
| Craig Smith (craigsmith) | Preserving & Sharing Classic Hollywood Sound Effects |
| Joan in B flat (jn.) | Salir de la caja: remplazar todo tipo de vst como Omnisphere por samples mas personalizados |
| Jordi Pons (idrojsnop) | Stable Audio Open |
| Gorka Egino Arroyo (Asmatzaile) | Soundpot – a playful interface powered by Freesound |
| Jeff T Byrd (jefftbyrd) | Listen To The Planet: EARTH SONG, a sonic playground based on the Freesound API |
| Sergi Pastor (hnnygold) | Hathor: the musical inspiration engine |
| Miguel Buendía (_RemezclaTuCiudad_) | Rethinking our cities through sound |
| Gerard Erruz (clucs) | Freesound in mixed music composition and improvisation |
| Dr. Matthew A. Bardin, PhD (DSHS_STEM) | Using Freesound to Create Future Artists |
| Rutger Muller, Nikolai Gillissen, Ricky van Broekhoven (RutgerMuller) | Soundsystem for Silence – Creating Immersive Spaces with Emergent Patterns |
Note: Some of the talks will happen live at the university campus, some others will be live through the Zoom meeting room, and some others will use a pre-recorded video. All of them will be streamed through the Zoom meeting room linked above.
Freesound 20th anniversary composition contest listening session (20h-21:30h)
The listening session of the Freesound 20th anniversary composition contest will feature the winning pieces of the contest, and a selection from the other submissions.
| klanbeeld | River and village in 12 months |
| Ivan Manov | The Forgotten March of the Survakari |
| Beatrice Cioni | Risonanze Italiane |
| patnea | Echoes in the Fold |
| Edvina Fahlqvist and Christos Papasotiriou | Tierra Eterna |
| Victor Riera | Earth’s Lament |
| Bernardo González Castro | Relojes musicales |
| Christos Alexopoulos | Her Interplay |
| Sean Kinnear | Our Attempts (Leaves) |
| Diego Martinez | Sucesos irrecordables (Pouvoir tout dire) |
| Timothy Schmele | 1972 |
| Stefano Calvanese | MEMORIA CONDIVISA (Collective Memory) |
| TECNOBAITA | Free Peppino Sound |
| The Saucer Pilots | Waves of Memories |
The listening session will NOT be streamed, but we are working on making all submitted compositions available online at a later time this year.
Great and great! BTW I’ve been to Barcelona this year and fogot to record audio–just took pictures. So the idea next door is now to turn the pics into sound but this will destroy any meaning. I’d love to see the other way round now: soundscapes of Barcelona turned into visual pictures. ; )