Destruction Zone library brings 1570+ HQ audio material, centered around debris and destruction sound effects. We spent great lengths of time recording on-site, in metal scrap yards and quarry mines, construction sites, and tank graveyards, and we had fun popping balloons, dropping firecrackers, and sending barrels rolling downhill.

In the studio, we recorded a wide range of materials, covering everything from dust and gravel drops to glass breaks and porcelain smashes and we even recreated volcanic rockslides!

The highlights of our Destruction Zone library include high car drops using cranes and clarks, car window breaks using sledgehammers (what a stress relief :) ), the reverberated pops of balloons and firecrackers in one of our beautiful local canyons, sounds of an old corroded metal barrel being thrown downhill and “meticulously vandalized” in order to capture larger than life rolling textures, metal impact, and loud squeaks.

In addition to those raw material-based sounds, we included a number of designed sounds of low-frequency impacts, rumble drones, and different types of ground movements and disaster scenarios, such as rockfalls, mud and lava flows, landslides, earthquakes, avalanches, building collapses, car crashes, and explosions - all you need to design the Second Coming and beyond...

Our motivation behind this collection is to offer opportunities for:

Creating your own mixture of debris sounds 
Using our pre-designed mixes unaltered to create the ambiance of weather phenomena, natural disasters, or structural failures and collapses.

What’s in the Pack

Material-based debris sounds of metal, glass, ceramic, gravel, dust, dirt, porcelain, plastic, cardboard, stone, boulder, marble, and volcanic rocks
Sweeteners: Blasts, Low-frequency Impacts, Low Rumbles
Pre-designed debris and natural disaster scenarios like building demolition/collapses, earthquakes, explosions with various types of debris falls, avalanches, and more.

Find out more:
https://soundexmachina.com/library/destruction-zone

#junk #soundeffect #sfx #sounddesign #sounddesigners #sounddesigner #debris #destruction #demoliotion #sounds #soundlibrary

Destruction Zone - Designed Sounds - Audio Preview

Destruction Zone library brings 1570+ HQ audio material, centered around debris and destruction sound effects. We spent great lengths of time recording on-site, in metal scrap yards and quarry mines, construction sites, and tank graveyards, and we had fun popping balloons, dropping firecrackers, and sending barrels rolling downhill.

In the studio, we recorded a wide range of materials, covering everything from dust and gravel drops to glass breaks and porcelain smashes and we even recreated volcanic rockslides!

The highlights of our Destruction Zone library include high car drops using cranes and clarks, car window breaks using sledgehammers (what a stress relief :) ), the reverberated pops of balloons and firecrackers in one of our beautiful local canyons, sounds of an old corroded metal barrel being thrown downhill and “meticulously vandalized” in order to capture larger than life rolling textures, metal impact, and loud squeaks.

In addition to those raw material-based sounds, we included a number of designed sounds of low-frequency impacts, rumble drones, and different types of ground movements and disaster scenarios, such as rockfalls, mud and lava flows, landslides, earthquakes, avalanches, building collapses, car crashes, and explosions - all you need to design the Second Coming and beyond...

Our motivation behind this collection is to offer opportunities for:

Creating your own mixture of debris sounds 
Using our pre-designed mixes unaltered to create the ambiance of weather phenomena, natural disasters, or structural failures and collapses.

What’s in the Pack

Material-based debris sounds of metal, glass, ceramic, gravel, dust, dirt, porcelain, plastic, cardboard, stone, boulder, marble, and volcanic rocks
Sweeteners: Blasts, Low-frequency Impacts, Low Rumbles
Pre-designed debris and natural disaster scenarios like building demolition/collapses, earthquakes, explosions with various types of debris falls, avalanches, and more.

Find out more:
soundexmachina.com/library/destruction-zone

#junk #soundeffect #sfx #sounddesign #sounddesigners #sounddesigner #debris #destruction #demoliotion #sounds #soundlibrary

Destruction Zone - Raw Sounds - Audio Preview

Recorded in Germany by Daniel Meuser for Systematic Sound.

Nightingale.WAV

Eurasian Wren

Pentecost Saturday bells of the Berne Cathedral (Berner Münster), recorded from the square in front of the church on 22 May 2021 with a pair of Røde NT-5 mics - omni capsules - on a MixPre-6 recorder. 48kHz / 16bit (original 96kHz / 24bit)

Berner Münster: Glocken am Pfingstsamstag

Frogs in the lowlands of the Cascade Mountains in Spring. A rain shower approaches and some birds start calling.

Cascade Frogs - Approaching Drizzle

A stereo ambience of a seaside nature. It is recorded around 5 am. 
Gear used: Sound Devices 833 and Neumann KM184 in ORTF configuration. You can download and use it for any project.

Seaside Nature Ambience

Audio teaser for the SFX library UI SOUNDS: MUSICAL

A collection of 300 sound elements ranging from subtle to glitch and juicy vibrant sounds ready to use in any kind of electronic user interface environment (smartphone, tablet, desktop app, web based app or site), smart TV app, wearable device app, UI demonstration videos, infographics, as well as in your games.

Frequency-optimized, for both mobile and high-end speakers
Meticulously trimmed and calibrated to sound about as loud as each other, all sounds created to make developers' lives easier and delivered in .zip format, ready to be reproduced both in mobile and high-end speakers.

Great variety, multicultural touch, unique approach
Inside you’ll find catchy melodic elements from Indian strings, hand drum percussion and Tibetan bowls to warm analogue electronic tones, experimental synthesized sounds, complex evolving sequences and everything in-between.

Suitable for:

Buttons
Alarms
Notifications
Selections
Menus
Switches
Feedback
Navigation
As well as for other systems or game plays.

Technical Specifications:
300 files royalty-free
24bit/96 kHz in Stereo Wav format, mp3 (320-VBR), Ogg Vorbis (Quality=7)
Library size is ... MB
PDF, XLS files included
All files embedded with metadata

UI Sounds: Musical

UI Sounds - Musical [Audio Preview]

For the full article, please visit http://www.juliantreasure.com/5-ways-that-listening-can-change-your-life/

5 ways that listening can change your life

Water falling in a metal bucket with a nice circular reverberation.

#soundeffects #soundeffect #fieldrecording #sounddesign #sfx #soundfx #sounddesigner #water

Water falling in a metal bucket (circular reverberation)

Listening to Country: Exploring the value of acoustic ecology with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in prison.

The aim of ‘Listening to Country’ is to explore the value of acoustic ecology in promoting cultural connection, maintenance and wellbeing among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in prison. In early 2019, an interdisciplinary team of researchers worked with women in Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre (BWCC) to produce a 1-hour immersive audio work based on field recordings of natural environments (of country) for the purpose of stress relief and relaxation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are overrepresented in Australian prisons. The majority are mothers, experiencing the trauma associated with separation from family, community and country. 

‘Listening to Country’ represents an innovative and creative approach to promoting cultural maintenance and wellbeing among mothers, daughters, sisters, aunties and grandmothers in prison. The research use principles and processes from acoustic ecology, Indigenous storywork, dadirri (deep active listening), and arts-led inquiry to explore notions of cultural connection and maintenance for the participants, and the effects of the project on their wellbeing.

This project responds to a direct request from a group of Aboriginal women at BWCC to create a culturally appropriate sound recording for the purpose of reducing stress and connecting to natural environments and to country. It has been built on a strong foundation of previous creative engagement and consultation with women incarcerated in Queensland. The project team consists of two Aboriginal and two non-Aboriginal researchers working in collaboration. Dr Vicki Saunders (Gunggari) is an emerging scholar who works using arts-led and poetic enquiry in the field of child protection and family wellbeing. Dr Bianca Beetson (Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi) is a visual artist and curator, and Director of the Contemporary Indigenous Art Program at Griffith University. Dr Sarah Woodland has been developing creative arts-based approaches to wellbeing in Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre (BWCC) for the past seven years, recently finding radio drama, audio recording and soundscape to be highly effective in engaging the women. Dr Leah Barclay is a sound artist whose work investigates the value of acoustic ecology as a socially engaged, accessible, interdisciplinary field that can inspire communities across the world to listen to the environment. This team is supported by an advisory group that includes members of the Brisbane Council of Elders, Dr Claire Walker, (Director of the Murri Dhagun cultural unit of Queensland Corrective Services) and criminology expert Professor Andrew Day from James Cook University.

The pilot project in BWCC has enabled the researchers to develop and hone this approach to wellbeing among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in prison. It is anticipated that the ‘Listening to Country’ model might be transferable into a number of different wellbeing contexts, including with at-risk youth, Elders/seniors in care or off-country, women transitioning from prison to the community and more. The pilot will inform further development of the approach with additional groups in the community, with capacity development and knowledge translation activities occurring in Mitchell, Sunshine Coast and Cherbourg, Queensland to explore these possibilities in 2019.

This soundscape is a short excerpt from the 1-hr immersive audio work produced with the women during the pilot phase in prison in early 2019.

Visit the website for further details: www.listeningtocountry.com

Listening to Country (soundscape excerpt)

Field recordist, sound effects creator, founder at Sound Ex Machina - an SFX design studio producing context-based sound effects for motion picture, games, apps, audio drama and theater plays.

I've worked with clients and studios to craft audio storytelling experiences across a range of audiovisual projects such as short films, animation, mobile apps, sound logos and art exhibitions.

When I am not creating audio for media I produce ambient electronic music under the names @mahindrawaves and @innersonar.

SOUND DESIGNER: Portfolio
http://behance.net/loukovikas

SOUND EX MACHINA: Sound Effect Libraries
http://soundexmachina.com

COMPOSER / PRODUCER
http://innersonar.bandcamp.com
https://mahindrawaves.bandcamp.com

Thanks for taking the time to check out my site. Feel free to contact me with your suggestions, ideas, comments or business inquiries.

Water falling in a metal bucket (circular reverberation)

Kostas Loukovikas