Freesound, a venerable repository of CC-licensed samples, has been up to a bevy of good work since
we last checked in with them. This includes developing a
beautiful successor to
wav2png, changing their name to
freesound.org,
teaming up with
Happy New Ears to develop an interactive sample machine aimed at children, and
launching Freesound Radio, an “experimental web-based system around collaboration and social interaction in sample based music creations.”
What many people don’t realize about Freesound.org is that it is an initiative of the
Music Technology Group at
Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. This means that outside of Freesound there are a collection of amazing students and professors working on understanding how music technology is changing at a rapid pace. One of these student, Jordi Janer, recentlly released his PHD
singing-driven interfaces for sound synthesizers as a
CC BY-NC-SA licensed
PDF download.