The unfields project at unfound sounds offers various audio field recordings for sampling under a Creative Commons license [sampling, attribution, no commercial use].
welcome to the first installation of the unfields series! the unfoundsound website's new addition offers a palette of downloadable field recordings at no cost. you are free to use these samples (under the terms described in this licence) to further your own sound experimentation and music production. the unfields are audio snapshots of the world that surrounds us, taken from the subjective point of view of the artist who recorded them. they are provided as is, without any processing, along with the inevitable imperfections which are inherent during this kind of recording procedure. the recordings are complemented by a series of pictures and a short text written by the author that illustrate the circumstances of the recording. please feel free to submit tracks created from the unfields for a possible release on foundsound or unfoundsound.
This un/found/field/sound thing is all very complicated, and all of the title tags on their various web pages include numerous typographical marks, repeated many times. Apparently foundsound is a Philly record label that specializes in vinyl techno/microhouse created out of sampled and ambient sounds. The unfield series is a web-based distribution system for field recordings that can be sampled; unfield is actually part of foundsound's web-distribution alter ego, unfoundsound ... gah, my head asplode.
[via PhillyTechno.org] (no, really; I'm not sure how I ended up there)
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