Give a warm welcome and say hello to the <a href="http://soundcloud.com/soundcloudheroes">SoundCloud Heroes</a>. Find out more about them at http://blog.soundcloud.com/2013/01/17/heroes-2013/

Heroes are inspirational leaders in the community who cultivate and engage unique communities through sound. Heroes connect and help other SoundClouders connect with each other. Connect, create and discover together.

Interested in building connections with other SoundClouders, or becoming a Hero? Participate in their planned projects that will be announced shortly.

Introducing our SoundCloud Heroes

Introducing the SoundCloud Heroes...

Tea Leigh is a musician based in Boston, MA and originally from Texas. She's playing a show with a few other SoundClouders in Central Park on Saturday, April 14.

Read her full introduction here: http://blog.soundcloud.com/2012/04/12/boston-soundcloudhero-tea/

Boston SoundCloud Hero: Tea Leigh

<a href="http://soundcloud.com/zefora">Zefora</a> is the SoundCloud Hero for Portland. Get involved with her for SoundCloud meetups and activities in Portland!

Read her introduction on the blog here: http://bit.ly/HXaxnB

Portland SoundCloud Hero: Zefora Alderman

<a href="http://soundcloud.com/alliedee">Alison Doyle</a> is a composer who works in the tech industry in Seattle. She creates her own piano compositions but also uses the mobile app for found sounds. She will be organizing the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Soundcloud/Seattle-WA/672912/">Global Meetup Day in Seattle</a> on May 17 so get in touch!

Read the rest of her introduction on the blog here: http://bit.ly/HDl84y

Seattle SoundCloud Hero: Alison Doyle

<a href="http://soundcloud.com/willcoley">Will Coley</a> is one of the SoundCloud Heroes in Los Angeles. He helps non-profits use audio and other social tools to promote social justice and has gotten numerous organizations started on SoundCloud to do so. 

Come out to the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Soundcloud/Los-Angeles-CA/672482/">Global Meetup Day in Los Angeles</a> on May 17!


Los Angeles SoundCloud Hero: Will Coley

Matt Flynn is a musician who goes by the name <a href="http://soundcloud.com/shiftyteeth">Shifty Teeth</a>. In a city so vast, Matt is interested in establishing a creative hub where Los Angeles SoundClouders could look to for support, collaboration, inspiration, or networking.

Global Meetup Day is on May 17! http://www.meetup.com/Soundcloud/Los-Angeles-CA/672482/

Los Angeles SoundCloud Hero: Matthew Flynn

Hi! I'm Oliver Sadie, and London is where I spend my days.

For a living, I do 2 jobs. I crunch numbers all day long in a Finance job but by night I compose, perform and produce music professionally for film and tv. My number 1 instrument is the piano, which I've played all my life and features heavily in my work of many genres.

I've been on SoundCloud for 3 years now and have had an incredible time of it. It's no co-incidence that my time on SoundCloud has been the formative part of my musical career - I started as a bedroom musician with an iPhone and a piano, but it is the community of passionate music makers which keeps drawing me back every night to make more and hear more music, and encourages me to learn more and improve my craft. I use the platform to the max, and those tracks you see on my profile are a tiny fraction of the tons of private tracks on there which I use for collaborations and for sharing work in progress with the film & tv directors I work with.

It's hard to pick a favourite collaboration or community activity on SoundCloud, I've been involved in so many great ones it's like trying to pick your favourite child. But some highlights include my SoundCloud Sinfonietta mass collaborations, the 2nd of which is nearing completion, and my YourTune project where I turned 20 second melodies into full pieces. 

My favourite sound in the whole world is the glug-glug of the pouring of the first dram of a fine single malt whisky with friends. Music to my ears. Mm. 

Anyway, back to SoundCloud. I'm thrilled to be part of the Hero programme, although I think that's an incredible title to live up to. Maybe I'll save some baby pandas from a crocodile before actually calling myself a Hero, in the meantime, I'm just Oliver Sadie and doing what I normally do anyway - having fun collaborating with the incredible talent right here, and that probably includes you. Well, I might not have heard you, maybe your singing sounds like a baby panda being eaten by a crocodile, but hey, that's what I'm here for.

I'd also like to take the opportunity to bring more light to professional composer communities like <a href=http://www.scorecastonline.com>SCOREcast:Online</a>.

Thanks, see you on the 'Cloud!

<I>(Background track: Edited version of "Feed It, Free It", from my original soundtrack to an Austrian sports series, hear more about it here: https://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/svendecker-ost ) </I>

FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/oliversadie.music

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Oliver Sadie, Composer — A Personal Introduction

A Heroic Hello from Jay Stansfield

Hi. My name is Marc Weidenbaum and I was invited to participate in the SoundCloud Heroes project, which SoundCloud has described as a collection of individuals "who bring people together around sound by cultivating and engaging unique communities." It's an honor to be included. I write about music and I work with musicians on collaborative projects, such as the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/instagr-am-bient"><i>Instagr/am/bient</i></a> compilation and the ongoing <a href="https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/">Disquiet Junto community</a>.

I've created this little introduction at the request of the folks in the SoundCloud Community department. The audio provides a bit of autobiography — who I am, where I am, what I'm up to — and I've embedded related links. I recorded this at home in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, January 13, 2013. 

More of what I'm up to here:

My website: <a href="http://disquiet.com/">disquiet.com</a>

The SoundCloud group I moderate: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/">Disquiet Junto</a>

My Twitter account: <a href="http://twitter.com/disquiet">twitter.com/disquiet</a>

The Disquiet.com Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/disquiet.fb">facebook.com/disquiet.fb</a>

Marc Weidenbaum (What I'm Up To)

Hello everyone. . . . I'm Rónán Kearney :)  I've been asked to say a bit about myself and why i like Soundcloud. . . .they made me a 'Hero' . . . . . but I'm not. . . .I'm pretty happy all the same. Thanks so much to all the kind humans that give me warmth on here. I love ye's all. Onward and upward. :)

https://www.facebook.com/ronankearney01 - friend me
https://www.facebook.com/RonanKearneyMusic?ref=stream - fan page

Rónán

Rónán Kearney - A Personal Introduction

SoundCloud Hero Personal Introduction

https://soundcloud.com/ian-melvin/audiobiography-ian-melvin

All the songs on this cloud are original compositions of mine.  Sometimes in collaboration with other SoundClouders.

Music is a kind of kaleidoscope, although it manifests itself on an incomparably higher level of ideality. Music produces beautiful forms and colours in ever more elaborate diversity, gently overflowing, sharply contrasted, always coherent and yet always new, self-contained and self-fulfilled. Eduard Hanslick 1854

I am a married father of two, grandfather of four, fine arts graduate and polymath.

I had been asked to commit my songs to recording for the benefit of my offspring, and also I guess before I go completely deaf (Yes. I am one of the 1 in 7 severely deaf people in the UK) so begins this project. 

However, as I have gotten into it I realize that I have a lot of new stuff bursting out all the time, much of it inspired by you good people on Sound Cloud. 

Collaborating has been a revelation and I want to do more and as much as I can, so if you hear anything of mine you like and/or have any ideas about production etc just drop me a line anytime.

My collaborative name is Eight Zeros and can be found here: http://soundcloud.com/eight-zeros and on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/eight8zeros

I would at some point like to work with someone to develop my own and hopefully your songs as an acoustic vocal duo so if you are geographically near and interested please get in touch.

Recordings were made first on a Boss Micro BR, then on an iMac running Garageband'11, inputting through a Behringer 1204 USB mixer and using a Rode NT2A for voice (Behringer C1 condenser mic for voice up to April 2013) and an AKG1000S for guitars. From January 2013 I have upgraded software to Logic pro 9. My weapon of choice is a Martin 00015M, with Martin SP Light's mostly recorded open though sometimes via Fishman Rare Earth Blend. 

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SoundCloud Hero Personal Introduction

Ian Melvin