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

Natural sound

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

morning ritual

Home Planet Morning Ritual

17 soft chimes sound effects that can be downloaded for free at www.soundeffectsforfree.com

BELL 104

Flautando strings provide a bed for this slow-moving piece.

Lost Frontier

13 eerie ring sound effects that can be downloaded at www.soundeffectsforfree.com.

BELL 033

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

Bell

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

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

Beautiful dreamy piece that confuses times and spaces. You really just need to take a moment and listen to this one - because it is really cool. How cool? You should probably find out! There are a lot of extra synth things going on in it that are hidden in and amongst the piano, like one of those hidden picture books with 45 paperclips, but you can only ever see 7 of them.

Dreams Become Real - Full Mix

Sounds recorded in Tulum, Mexico for the Sound Escapes project. Find the corresponding travel article at http://sound-escapes.com/tulum-gorillas-in-the-mist/

The Caribbean Sea At Night II - Waves

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

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

Minimal and somewhat droney in parts, this has a beautiful calmness about it. You can use it to sell anti-depressants or high performance automobile parts. Also useful for time-lapse photography of the night sky... or maybe a rocket launch.

Immersed

Salton Sea Bombay Beach Small Fast Waves Sand

Remember that time you were lost in the woods and you were visited by the clan of  centaurs, and they were super suspicious of you, but decided to take you back to their settlement anyway? It never happened! That was a screen memory! There are no centaurs, and they wouldn't live in forest settlements! That was an alien abduction. The aliens planted the memory of the forest centaurs so your brain wouldn't implode with the knowledge of trans-dimensional beings... such as themselves. And... unrelated, but... what comes to mind when you think about the smell of wet cardboard and Sriracha?


Magic Forest

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

Nightdreams
54 bpm
Drums, Hang Drum

Are you still spending all of your money on shakra therapies that don't seem to work? Look no further - Nightdreams will do everything those therapies do and at a much lower cost! Presence is the truth of well-being. And no one can argue that to be well, one must first exist. Before you start listening to this piece, make certain that you exist. No one needs another one of those 'tree-falling paradoxes' messing up their lives... or their forests.

Spirit

Nightdreams

Close field recording of waves crashing on the shore of Kalundborg Fjord at Røsnæs, Denmark. Water cascading through small stones as it pulls back into the ocean. Very distant vessel. Recorded at 2 meters distance, 120 degree with Zoom H2 build in microphones.

Download 1GB of free field recordings from: http://www.luftrum.com/free-field-recordings/

Link to the same recording on the Freesound Project http://www.freesound.org/people/Luftrum/sounds/48412/

Ocean Waves Crashing

Sound sourced from http://www.freesound.org/people/3bagbrew/sounds/59564/

"The sound of gentle beach waves recorded in Jersey, (Channel Islands).

Recorded on a Sharp MD SR-40H mini disc with a Audio Technica ART25 stereo microphone."

This work is licensed under the Attribution License. This sound is being used for educational use only.

Beach Waves

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