Audio
Openverse: Creative Common Search
An updated Creative Commons search engine (sponsored by Wordpress). Much better.
WebModular
Old skool synthesis, pulling out and plugging in wires. Interesting because you can type notes using strange notation.
Tonespace
Tonespace lets you play one note and intelligently augments what you’re playing with chords and arpeggios.
It connects via Midi (so to a synth or Garageband) and plays musically similar notes. Because it generates midi, you can “record” it and then use it in whatever DAW you are using.
Freesound Timeline
Strange tool that takes the popular sounds from Freesound and turns them into an automatic soundscape.
Acoustic Atlas
Do you want to hear what your voice would sound like in the Temple of Love in the Taj Mahal? Of course you do. You'll need headphones for this.
Faust Playground
Start audio processing with a flow diagram like language in the browser. OMG! Amazing!
Web Audio Sequencer
Another strange tool. Search for sounds, add them, and then draw on the timeline grid to play them to create unusual beats and soundtracks.
Play Sound
Interesting tool that searches Freesound, and lets you create soundscapes by clicking samples repeatedly, or letting them loop.
Teleprompter
Lovely free, web-based tele-prompter, or autocue. Really helpful if you're recording a voice track.
It even has mirroring so you can hold a sheet of glass, and reflect onto it, looking straight at the camera. Nice.
In-G
Interesting sonification example that takes Github upload data and turns it into "music". See this article. NO LONGER ONLINE
Draw Audio
Really interesting audio tool where you draw kind of midi notes and and tweak effects and envelopes etc.
AI to Midi
Upload an audio track, get midi back. You might have to split audio in basic tracks into instruments with a different tool (maybe https://www.lalal.ai/ or https://www.audioshake.ai/)
Bespoke Synth
I'm in love. Bespoke Synth is a way to make music and sounds using a visual flow diagram metaphor. Never have I had more fun. This tool is fabulous and free.
People Like Us
There are also more inventive forms of audible storytelling like sound collage. Here’s a piece by Vicki Bennett (aka ‘People Like Us’) which takes bits of radio (including The Archers) and tells new stories with them.
Bartosz Ciechanowski Explains Sound Waves
Incredible resource explaining how sound works, with lots of interactive widgets.
Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room
From Wikipedia: I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece composed in 1969 and one of composer Alvin Lucier's best-known works.
The piece features Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the tape recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies (e.g. different between a large hall and a small room), the effect is that certain frequencies are emphasized as they resonate in the room, until eventually, the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself.
Sound of AURORA BOREALIS 2 | SOUND OF SPACE
Auroral radio emissions are associated with the Northern Lights or Aurora. The most intense of these emissions is a phenomenon called Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR). It is produced in the auroral zones at an altitude between 3000 and 20 000 kilometres.
5 Artists Who Are Masters of Glitch Music
One of the strange aspects of technology, whether analogue or digital, is its tendency to glitch. The ghost in the machines, as it were. With music software in particular, glitch and error have become desirable ingredients in sound design and musical composition.
Ishkurβs Guide to Electronic Music
Large visualisation. Zoom in and listen to each genre, from Musique Concrete to Glitch Hop
AudioCommons
Collection of really interesting audio projects that make use of Freesound.org's archive of sound files.
Data Sonification Archive
This curated collection is part of a broader research endeavour in which data, sonification and design converge to explore the potential of sound in complementing other modes of representation and broadening the publics of data.
REVEIL 24+1
Lovely project where on one day people all around the world will stream the sound of the dawn chorus where they are.
Sound Effect Story
Simple but wonderful example of telling a story using only sound effects from Freesound.org
YouTube Audio Library
YouTube has bots that check your videos to make sure you haven't used a copyrighted music track in your video. All these tracks are free to use on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram & Twitch without copyright issues.
This guide shows you how to download tracks from the Audio Library.
There are also lots of sound effects to download too.
Pay special attention to attribution requirements, with any audio user ever.
