Sound recordings selected for Shakespeare Off the Map 2016, a UK higher education videogame competition organised by the British Library and GameCity.

The winning entry for Shakespeare Off the Map 2016 was The Tempest by Team Quattro (De Montfort University): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lzpEFgpk3Y

Off The Map challenges budding designers to use collections from the British Library as inspiration to create exciting interactive digital media.

Shakespeare Off the Map

Environmental

Ambient

Sound recordings selected for Off the Map Gothic 2014, a UK higher education videogame competition organised by the British Library and GameCity.

The winning entry for Off the Map Gothic 2014 was Nix by Gothulus Rift (University of South Wales): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESieZO4VHw 

Off The Map challenges budding designers to use collections from the British Library as inspiration to create exciting interactive digital media.

Off the Map Gothic

From crashing waves to chattering seabirds, here is a selection of seaside recordings from the British Library and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Sounds of the Seaside

Listen to a selection of natural soundscapes from the British Library and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Wild Places

SoundScape Collection - Sounds, music, noises recorded live as an audio file, "on the fly". Short format, regardless of their style. We can use it in order to describe or illustrate articles or short video.
! Please contact us for all need of utilisation.  

Collection SoundScape - Des sons (tous genres confondus) pris sur le vif au hasard des chemins et qui rendent une ambiance particulière - De formats courts, nous pourrons les utiliser pour décrire ou illustrer des articles ou des petits objets multimédias.

SoundScape Collection

Credit to http://soundcloud.com/obacyan for the loan of the didgeridoo sample please check out his other recordings!! Art work "Elements" by Ian Jensen. Copyright Tai Inoue at Nature Sounds 2013

Soundscape - Elements

OCEAN WAVES
We cannot move forward in our lives and create the best part of ourselves if our energy is still held in the past. The purpose of this guided mediation is to create conscious change by releasing what no longer service your highest well-being. (TRACK TIME: 20:17 min.)


Ocean Waves-Music

Los Gritos de Mexico, soundscape of Mexico City is a 30min sound piece by Félix Blume. 
http://www.felixblume.com/losgritosdemexico
A shorter version is available on Arte Radio. 
https://soundcloud.com/arte-radio-1/los-gritos-de-mexico
Download in Wave 48kHz 24bit on Freesound 
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/260680/

This piece receive a special mention during the "Bienal of Radio from Mexico" and has been broadcasted on more than 30 radio, web-radio and on the Radia Network.

RESUME:
Mexico City: more than 20 millions people gathered making noise!
A noisy city for most; I would like to transform it in a sonorous city.

The street sellers make the voices of the polyphonic choir, the small bell from the ice cream seller substitutes the triangle from the orchestra, and the hammering of the protesters on the metallic wall are the percussions.

In Mexico City, people shout to be heard, they shout their rage against the cops, they shout at the ‘lucha libre’ fights, they shout together ¡ Viva Mexico ! to feel united, and during a demonstration they also shout ¡Viva Mexico ! People shout in church, they pray together or alone, whispering in the silent night.

The thunder booms: nobody can shout at the storm, and the rain cleans the silent city.  A solo voice after the rain, and the choir resumes gradually. 

People sing to forget and the shouting starts again, louder, so that the others don´t forget.

The water flows under the city, the forgotten lake is mourning; it remembers when the city was an Island… On the top, it is too noisy, underneath, the water keeps in silence the secrets of the past.

INTENTION
Most of the people in the world live in cities. The daily soundscape is in most of the case a continuous sound of traffic, close or distant. Mexico City has a series of sounds added to the background which make the specificity of the city: the cries and sounds of the street sellers are in most part responsible.
In the past, most cities had their own cries (as some classical music can testify, like ‘Les cris de Paris’ from Janequin). In Mexico City, this tradition has persisted until today,  but the government and general opinion is not in favour of them: street sellers are each time further away from the touristic center, advertising campaigns are done to make them disappear from the subway, and police operations block their access to the streets.

I would like to pay tribute to these Criers through a soundscape of Mexico City, that will become a sonorous memory of a time that sooner than later will disappear.

Los gritos de Mexico

A sonic journey across the sacred landscape lorded over by a warrior god. His mountain abode, Kawakarpo is a traditional pilgrimage site for Tibetan Buddhists.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Related Stories:

http://www.npr.org/series/5161424/geography-of-heaven-kawakarpo


http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2001/jan/010129.yunnan.html


http://www.npr.org/series/5222677/himalayan-healing-plants


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7316356




Tibetan Songscape (binaural/headphones)

A group of five Carrion Crows in the trees, before roosting, during a blustery force 6 wind. Recorded in winter at Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire by Richard Margoschis.

British Library reference: 1CD0091587 D2 BD9

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/forest-sky-winter-landscape-r%C3%BCgen-584354/

Woodland In Winter

Scottish woodland at dawn recorded by Richard Margoschis. A chorus of several Chaffinches and Wrens singing, a Blackbird and Rooks, Woodpigeons singing, loud Crows and wing whirring from a Pheasant, a distant cockerel and Jackdaws.

British Library reference: 1CD0091587 D1 BD8

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/bluebell-wood-flowers-springtime-905626/

Woodland In Late Spring

Thunder recorded in the Tanat Valley, Wales on 6th July 1989 by Eric and May Nobles.

British Library reference: 022A-WTHUNDERXXXX-0301M0.WAV


Thunder, Tanat Valley, Wales, July 1989

Babbling brook recorded in Kynance Cove, Cornwall on 1st March 1996 by Paul Duck.

British Library reference: W1CDR0000199 BD11

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/water-drop-rain-falling-pouring-275938/

Babbling Brook, Cornwall, England, March 1996

Light rainfall recorded in Amacayacu National Park, Colombia on 1st September 1988 by Richard Ranft.

British Library reference: W1CDR0000524 BD5

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/water-priroda-drops-rain-815271/


Light Rainfall, Colombia, September 1988

Morning in an old forest in Gloucestershire at springtime recorded by Richard Margoschis. The shrill notes of a Wren and nasal calls of a Nuthatch, gentle cooings of Woodpigeons, Robin song, a Pheasant crowing and bees humming. Rooks cawing, scolding notes of a Jay, a Blue Tit calling and singing, drumming from a Great Spotted Woodpecker. Also the songs and calls of a Blackbird, Cuckoo, Willow Warbler and Coal Tit.

British Library Reference: 1CD0091587 D1 BD3

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/tree-support-tree-moss-forest-log-505041/

Old Forest In Spring

Moderate sea on rising tide breaking onto steep sloping stony beach at 100 paces. Distant perspective. Recorded in Norfolk on 17th October 1992 by Richard Margoschis.

British Library Reference: 022A-WWAVESXXXXXX-0604M0.WAV

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/water-lapping-stones-lake-219761/

Waves On Stony Beach, Norfolk, 1992

Rough sea falling onto a pebble beach. The sound of shingle moving and waves crashing at a very close perspective. Recorded in Slapton, Devon on 21st September 1993 by Richard Margoschis.

British Library Reference: 022A-WWAVESXXXXXX-0902M0.WAV

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/sea-wave-spray-ocean-atlantic-254639/


Strong Waves On Pebbles, Devon, 1993

A cold and overcast Autumn afternoon on a Welsh heather moorland. A strong wind blows over the crags. Distant sheep, mewings from a Buzzard overhead and the calls of a Meadow Pipit and Raven can be heard. Recorded by Richard Margoschis.

British Library Reference: 1CD0091587 CD2 BD7

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/tree-heather-moorland-purple-blue-943247/

Mountain Moorland

Recording on a heathland with trees and bracken on a foggy, dark and very calm autumn evening. Fallow Deer are rutting: the pig-like grunts are from the bucks, the quiet bleats are the does. In the far distance, a Tawny Owl hoots.

British Library Reference: 1CD0091587 CD2 BD6

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/fallow-deer-herd-park-females-597550/


Ancient Chase

Rough sea with heavy surf on large sandy beach after storm, large breakers, close perspective. Recorded at Whitesand Bay, Cornwall on 28th February 1996 by Paul Duck.

British Library Reference: W1CDR0000199 BD8

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/beach-ocean-sea-sand-sandy-coast-412760/


Lapping Waves, Cornwall, 1996

Rough sea with heavy surf on large sandy beach after storm, large breakers, close perspective. Recorded at Whitesand Bay, Cornwall on 28th February 1996 by Paul Duck.

British Library Reference: W1CDR0000199 BD4

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/clovelly-sydney-australia-ocean-286568/


Waves after the Storm, Cornwall, 1996

Above the pounding of waves at the foot of the cliffs, a cacophony of the seabirds colony: Guillemots, Kittiwake, Fulmars, Gannets and gulls. Light rain starts to fall. Recorded at Bempton Cliffs, North Yorkshire by Richard Margoschis.

British Library Reference:  1CD0091587 CD1 BD5

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/cliffs-rock-water-nature-coast-404051/

Sea Cliffs

Harbour with Black-headed Gulls, recorded at Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk on 16th March 1991 by Richard Margoschis

British Library reference: W LARUS RIDIBUNDUS R2 C10

Image reference: https://pixabay.com/en/boats-marina-marine-row-boat-water-271347/

Harbour Atmosphere, Norfolk, March 1991

Waves recorded from a clifftop in Sutherland, Scotland on 21st May 1993 by Richard Margoschis. 

British Library reference: 022A-WWAVESXXXXXX-0803M0.WAV

Image reference: https://pixabay.com/en/waves-water-shore-cliff-rocks-1209370/

Clifftop waves, Scotland, May 1993

Lapping waves recorded at Kynance Cove, Cornwall on 1st March 1996 by Paul Duck.

British Library reference: 022A-WWAVESXXXXXX-0803M0.WAV

Image reference: https://pixabay.com/en/rocks-coastline-cornwall-sea-wave-1317719/

Cornish cove, Kynance Cove, Cornwall, March 1996

Collection SoundScape - Des sons (tous genres confondus) pris sur le vif au hasard des chemins et qui rendent une ambiance particulière - De formats courts, nous pourrons les utiliser pour décrire ou illustrer des articles ou des petits objets multimédias. 

Enregistrement pris sur le quai de la ligne 6 station Place d'Italie dans le métro parisien. Se succèdent bruits ambiants des personnes présentes sur le quai, bruits du métro qui arrive et repart, sonnerie de fermeture des portes et musique de jazz joué au saxophone ce jour là par un musicien non nommé.

Metro Jazz Paris (April 2015)

Collection SoundScape - Des sons (tous genres confondus) pris sur le vif au hasard des chemins et qui rendent une ambiance particulière - De formats courts, nous pourrons les utiliser pour décrire ou illustrer des articles ou des petits objets multimédias.

Enregistrement du son des cloches de l'abbaye de Lambach en Autriche sonnant l'angélus.

Bells Sound Austrian Abbey (August 2013)

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