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Sound!
Category: Media
Posted on: February 11, 2007 2:59 PM, by PZ Myers
Here's a site full of interesting noises: freesound. You can search for anything, and it will return Creative Commons licensed sound samples; if you want the sound of a phone ringing, or wind chimes, or throatsinging, or thunderstorms, or someone being tortured, or a good laser death ray, there it is. I started looking for more organic things, like whale songs, crickets chirping, frogs croaking, bird songs, etc., and it's amazing—all kinds of stuff turns up.
One creepy thing, though, if you have squeaky mattress. You'll also discover that people are recording what their neighbors are doing late at night.
It's very addictive. Now I have to get back to work on composing that genetics exam…
(via jill/txt)
Comments
Do you compose a new exam each semester? Or do you recycle the stuff?
Posted by: Ed Darrell | February 11, 2007 3:17 PM
Very cool, I'll check it out. Always good to have sound clips that I can use for my show.
Posted by: Inoculated Mind | February 11, 2007 3:25 PM
I make the back exams freely available, so I have to make new exams every year. I figure that it's worth it -- they have to work through the old problems and the new ones, so they get a double dose of genetics exercises.
Posted by: PZ Myers | February 11, 2007 3:29 PM
Some people sound like they are having quite a fine time in the sound clips!
Posted by: Odonata | February 11, 2007 4:35 PM
no howler monkeys!?!?!!!!111one
Posted by: jamie | February 11, 2007 4:55 PM
wow, thx a bunch. Comes in very handy for me right now.....
Posted by: lo | February 11, 2007 5:06 PM
A little OT, but speaking vaguely of other websites, has someone hijacked your facebook account, or are you getting all ironic?
Posted by: Carlie | February 11, 2007 9:17 PM
Just...spying.
Posted by: PZ Myers | February 11, 2007 9:26 PM
Yay I am going to have so much time playing around on this site.
Posted by: Udonman | February 11, 2007 10:51 PM
Freesound also hosted the first CC-licensed sound clip to be used in a major studio film. You can see it in the credits to Children of Men.
Posted by: grendelkhan | February 12, 2007 9:59 AM