Links

Closely related

1. Soundsnap.com
   http://www.soundsnap.com/
   A collaborative free Sounds-library that started of with 30.000 thousand quality sounds from people working in the field who belive that sounds should be free. The sounds are not public domain but still pretty "openly" licensed.

2. the freesound project
   http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
   The shining example of a collaborative database of creative commons licensed sounds with thousands of participants. Several ten-thousands sounds available and since recently affiliated with ccmixter. The sounds are creative commons licensed.

3. FindSounds.com
   http://www.findsounds.com/types.html
   FindSounds.com is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. Note, that you don't know anything about the sounds license / author rights.

4. Wikipedia Articles
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundscape
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_recording
   Wikipedia links in turn with many wonderfull links about soundscapes/fieldrecordings.

5. opsound.org
   http://opsound.org/pool/tag/
   open-eared listening, field recordings, ambiences, experiments, strange noises, bedroom laptop, microsound, generative, glitch dub, idm, minimal techno, blip hop, psychedelia, noise, free jazz, avant-anything

6. soundtransit.nl
   http://soundtransit.nl/search/
   Online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. Book acoustical flight-tickets from location to location then get yourself seated to listen.

7. phonography.org
   http://www.phonography.org/comp01.htm
   List of phonographers and many beautiful fieldrecording examples to be found.

8. extreme synth weirdness project
   http://www.keyssynthsandsamplers.com/weird/
   Synthesizer Love and Madness.

9. phonophilia.com
   http://phonophilia.com/cms/?q=tags/field_recordings
   Fieldrecording blog of Steev Hise. He is a true soundwalker.

10. fieldmuzick.net
    http://www.fieldmuzick.net/index.phtml
    Blog of Marcus Obst about enviromental recording.

11. ccmixter.org
    http://ccmixter.org/media/view/media/samples
    Creative Commons Sample Library.

12. archive.org
    http://www.archive.org/details/audio
    Archive's collection of audio recordings - 127.000 items.

13. Guide to Sound Effects
    http://www.epicsound.com/sfx/
    Long list of examples from foley artist.

Loosely related

1. librivox.org
   http://www.librivox.org/
   The mother to pdsounds. A booming collaborative project dedicated to produce free public domain volunteer read audiobooks of classic literature.

2. textosolvo.net
   http://textosolvo.net
   Blog of Hugh McGuire, the founder of Librivox. "Musings on open collaborative projects..."

3. furthernoise.org
   http://www.furthernoise.org/
   Acoustical artists and noisemakers. Endless source for discoveries, poetic experiences...

4. sonicpostcards.org
   http://www.sonicpostcards.org/project-info
   Sonic Postcards is a unique and innovative national education programme which explores these issues and encourages participants to “open their ears”. The project enables pupils from across the UK to explore and compare their local sound environments through the composition and exchange - via the internet - of sound postcards with other schools.

Rescources

1. audacity - free sound editing software
   http://audacity.sourceforge.net