Dear Freesounders,<\/p>\n
You maybe didn’t know this yet, but Freesound has just turned 10 this month! The project started out as an all-red website<\/a>?back in the days. It was built on rather shabby technology and has by now grown way beyond its initial goals. Way back in 2005 I took?Xavier Serra<\/a>‘s idea of “having a website where composers can exchange sounds” for ICMC 2005<\/a>. I hacked together?something rather rudimentary?and?invited some of my friends over. We started adding a few sounds and very quickly Freesound unexpectedly exploded into a massive sprawling community.<\/p>\n Freesound was rewritten from scratch to support the high demand and by now I’m no longer involved in Freesound on a fulltime basis:?other amazingly capable people at the Music Technology Group<\/a> have taken over while I moved a bit more to the background. I still keep an honorary position in Freesound as the?”Self-Proclaimed Benevolent Dictator for Life” which is probably why I’m writing this happy post…! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n So, what about the next 10 year? Well, many plans are brewing!!?As you might know, a lot of research is being carried out in the Music Technology Group<\/a>, including plenty of research related to?Freesound. Work is being done to?improve the way in which sounds are stored, analysed and described. Improvements in searching and browsing would be a first result from this work. Improvements in?uploading and describing sounds a second. The Freesound Team is also?starting collaborations with third parties and preparing really exciting new research and development projects that will support Freesound in the coming years.?Stay tuned, future looks promising!<\/p>\n So, what about some fun nerdy statistics?<\/p>\n In order to celebrate this joyous day, one of our moderators who you all know as?AlienXXX<\/a>?has created a new “Freesound Dare”<\/a> that matches the 10 year anniversary?theme! We dare you to join it!<\/p>\n Best Greetings,<\/p>\n Bram<\/strong> -?in the name of the Freesound Team<\/strong><\/p>\n PS:?have you freed your sound today??!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Freesounders, You maybe didn’t know this yet, but Freesound has just turned 10 this month! The project started out as an all-red website?back in the days. It was built on rather shabby technology and has by now grown way … Continue reading \n