A Rain of Frogs

A Rain of Frogs

Mark Twain in trouble

Freesound audio creative cooperative to the rescue

The effort of creating the sound clusters for a fantasy tale, Mark Twain in Milan, a tale of parallel worlds, antique technology and strange happenings in an abandoned subway tunnel—with lovers separated by two hundred years of shimmering parallelisms and Samuel Langhorne Clemens and an eighteenth century mathematician trying to keep themselves warm inside the wallpaper of a Mafia don in 1920s Greenwich Village—had me crying “Uncle.” The Freesound Project to the rescue.

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!”

The Freesound Project's sound samples are there for free, licensed under a Creative Commons Sampling Plus authorization. Here's what I used for Mark Twain in Milan:

 

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