free the sounds... and you free the music
free sounds + free samples + free loops + free songs + free recordings = free (as in freedom) music
free the sounds... and you free the musicfree sounds + free samples + free loops + free songs + free recordings = free (as in freedom) music
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This website exists to faciliate the grand movement towards non-proprietary sounds, samples, loops, songs, recordings and musical compositions in the public domain. This "free and open" movement was - to a great degree - started in the world of free software and has since been growing into many other areas including music and art.
Those who come to Free the Sounds come for a variety of reasons. 1) To share their sonorous creations with all, manifesting a higher understanding of the importance of freedom through collaboration for all humans. 2) To collaborate from anywhere in the world with Internet access by creating groups within the portal and communicating with each other by exchanging samples, loops, recordings, patches, etc. 3) To download music that is free and open for their listening pleasure, knowing the artists create this music for mutual enjoyment. 4) To gather snippets of sounds and loops to use in the music-creation process. All sounds on this site are licensed under one version or another of a license provided by the Creative Commons project, and are hosted at The Internet Archive. How to Use the Free the Sounds WebsiteSubmitted by admin on Tue, 2005-11-15 00:23.Free the Sounds exists to allow musicians and sound sculptors from around the world to have a home for the creations that they wish to distribute and share for fun or collaboration. The website provides the free tools for users to have their own blogs, groups, forums and much more. Quick note! You do not need to create an account to download the music here. Simply browse the categories or use the search function, find what you are interested in and click on it! This will take you to the download page. Web space is costly. There exists a service called The Internet Archive which is a public archive for material in the Public Domain. Free the Sounds does not host the sounds themselves. Rather we provide the community with a place to interact and share and explore. We use Archive.org to host the sounds. This means that when you want to post a new sound in your free account at Free the Sounds, you will use tools to upload the sound or composition first to http://archive.org and then link to it for download on Free the Sounds. Here is what you need to do to get going on this site: 1) Create a free user account on this site. 2) Download the free Creative Commons Publisher. 3) Use the Creative Commons Publisher to upload your sounds to The Internet Archive. Info on how to do this. (You can find alternative methods for uploading your content here.) 4) Once the upload is done a link will appear on the next screen of the publisher tool. Simply plop that link into your posting here on Free the Sounds! 5) Remember, when you post the sound on your site, you will choose the Creative Commons license you want to protect it with. You can customize your own license, use the CC Sampling License, use the CC Music Sharing License, or view all audio licenses to learn more before choosing one. That is it! It is all free and your sounds will always be available both here at Free the Sounds and also at the Internet Archive. If you really want to get into it, you can create and update your own artist info page with a bio, maintain your own free blog about your music interests and creations, create groups here and collaborate with other users you encounter, update your songs and sounds as frequently as you like, and much more. All for free. Good luck and keep the sounds free! Guidelines for Licensing your Sounds and MusicSubmitted by admin on Sun, 2005-01-30 10:30. Licensing GuidelinesNew to all of this? No problem! You'll be up and running in no time. The process is very simple and quick. Here's how you choose and implement a license for your sounds: 1) Visit the Creative Commons Audio License Section and read their introduction to what the Creative Commons is about and how it protects your music while enhancing its flexibility. 2) Once you understand what they (and we and you!) are up to, choose a license for your creations from within the audio licenses section. Related Links for Free MusicSubmitted by admin on Sat, 2005-01-29 22:58.Here are some great links for free music and free music information on the internet. Nobody is doing exactly what we are doing here, but there is so much out there that we felt it necessary to lead people to more free sounds and more free music! Informational Links: Get Free Music Now Links: Open Source Record Labels: Other Free Music Related Links: Free Music Torrents: pornSubmitted by qass on Tue, 2007-11-06 19:57. Americana | Public DomainpornSubmitted by qass on Tue, 2007-11-06 19:55. Attributionafrique porno » 9 comments | read more
emurhfkqSubmitted by emurhfkq on Sun, 2007-06-24 10:45. A Capella | Attributionhydrocodone without rx palette and boat  Frozen Elephants Music / NetlabelSubmitted by frozen elephant on Mon, 2006-11-27 15:24. Ambient | Artist Info Pages | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike | Experimental | Instrumental | Licensing Guidelines | Other | UnclassifiableWe're a non-profit collection of audio works focusing on new and dedicated approaches of electronic composition, improvisation and listening experiences, featuring an internatonal range of artists. Frozen Elephants Music is an online platform for the presentation and diffusion of these works, also hosting a concert series. We think, musical experimentation, analog and/or digital, is they way to explore future paths of music and sound making. We are also interested in closing the gap between electronic music and electroacoustic composition, since their production techniques are becoming more and more approximate to each other. » 10 comments | read more
Crazile Releases Robots in SpaceSubmitted by crazile on Mon, 2006-01-30 01:17. Ambient | Chill Out | Downbeat | Electronica | House | Meditative | Meditative House | SongsAnother housey, ambient, synthesizer-heavy, crazileque tune. Here are the link for Robots in Space: Click here to view this song on Internet Archive. Right click this link and save to your disk to download. Click this link to stream the song in your web browser. Click here for stream this song with your preferred streaming application. Crazile Releases Programmed SpacemenSubmitted by crazile on Mon, 2006-01-30 01:00. Ambient | Chill Out | Downbeat | Electronica | House | Meditative | Meditative House | Songs | Space OutSo here is another one - an ambient, housey, chillout, synthy, spacey and groovy song. There are plenty of spaces in there that can be cut up nicely. Click here to view this song on Internet Archive. Right click this link and save to your disk to download. Click this link to stream the song in your web browser. Click here for stream this song with your preferred streaming application. Creative Commons Publisher Working AgainSubmitted by crazile on Mon, 2006-01-30 00:53.I am now working again with Creative Commons publisher and all is OK! The Internet Archive is even accepting the songs and posting them right away rather than the previous waiting period of 24 hours or so. Nice one! |
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