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#HangoutsonAir: The New School's Mashup Culture class with guest speakers Chris Burke & Tamara Yadao. Guest speakers Chris Burke & Tamara Yadao mash up filmmaking, music and video game technologies. Chris & Tamara did a tutorial demonstrating how they use sound objects in the video game LittleBigPlanet to create immersive electroacoustic spaces that can be "played." Google Hangout on Air: 7 April 2013.

Huge library of geotagged sounds from all over the world. All downloadable and free.

Thanks for this... it will definitely be useful for me outside of class as well.

Just a ton of online fun sound and music projects. User friendly and interactive.

Audio Festival in NYC, April 19-21, 2013

Audio/Video Mashup

Cool web-based music sequencer

very nice!

Josephine--this is absolutely phenomenal. The background sounds are very much like grains of sand dripping onto a floor and crackling, shifting--giving an overall impression of a 'sand dancer' that can dance--or just as easily be blown away. I get an impression of both fluidity and fragility. I'm also reminded of the powerful, anthropomorphic sand-spirit that appeared in "The Mummy"; Do you know if they were similarly produced? Thanks for sharing!

@Rebecca - I know, it's hauntingly gorgeous, right? The sand-spirit animation in The Mummy was produced using motion capture as well, but I think with more 'traditional' methods of motion capture, i.e., using reflective balls and/or other reflective gear that is placed on the body that enables motion tracking (like this: http://flic.kr/p/8MJyW ). The actor Arnold Vosloos, who plays the mummy, said, "They had to put these little red tracking lights all over my face so they could map in the special effects." (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1999_film)#Special_effects) - A major difference between this method & the technique used to create the sand dancer mentioned in the article, is that the sand dancer was created using the Kinect, which doesn't need gear to be placed on the body in order to achieve motion tracking. Basically, the Kinect was a huge step in consumer versions of motion sensing because it enabled the user to move around and capture movement in 3D without an extra interface (no reflective balls or lights needed -- the body becomes the interface).

Cut is a netlabel providing free music with an emphasis on quality. Our aim is to show you that free music can be as valued and highly regarded as any other.

Milestones in sonic marriages over the past 104 years