What kind of sounds make up London’s oldest and top multidisciplinary university? Take a look at our audio panoramas:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0413/190413-sounds-of-ucl-winners-panoramas

We ran a competition for audio recordings from across UCL, related to work, research, studies and extracurriculars. We’ve uploaded the best of these sounds, and we’ve published most of them under Creative Commons. You may download, remix and sample these recordings in your own work – just be sure to credit the sound recordist and UCL. And let us know what you create. We’ll like and repost your track.

Sounds of UCL

My take on Chopin's saddest little prelude.  Two and a half minutes of ache.


Chopin Prelude No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 28

Sonata XII - "La Follia" - Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

live performance with Julie Andrijeski and Danny Mallon - September 25, 2010

La Follia - Vivaldi

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, first movement. Wayne Lee, violin; Emely Phelps, piano. Recorded Fall 2010 in New York.

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, first movement

Antonio Vivaldi "La Stravaganza" Concerto No.2 RV.279

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041

Thomas Gould, violin
Senesino Players

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor: 1.

Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - III. Anitra's Dance

Markus Gottschlich- piano
https://www.markusgottschlich.com/store/of-places-between-album

Schubert Impromptu Op.90 No.3

A. Vivaldi - Concerto for Two violins, Cello and String Orchestra: Third Movement

*Second place winner of the Sounds of UCL competition*

This recording is capturing the sounds of the passing shelving trolley and the trolley used by the Library Porter when distributing an internal post within the UCL Libraries. The location is the Flaxman Gallery, Main Library Building. This recording was made by using 4 microphones placed along “St. Michael Overcoming Satan” statue, to emphasize the Flaxman Gallery spacious and circular character. It was done early Monday morning when the Library is closed for public. The only human inhabitants of this space are shelvers, Library porter and UCL cleaners.
Sound recordist: Daniel Kordik

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This track is part of our Sounds of UCL, a series of audio recordings from around the university created by our staff and students. For more sounds, check out the full set here:
https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/sounds-of-ucl

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Sounds of UCL  (2nd place): Library early morning - Shelving trolleys and post delivering

*Joint winner of the Sounds of UCL competition*

Dr Kevin Drake, Department of Mechanical Engineering: 'WAVES AT MIDNIGHT'

A regular wave of 0.75Hz frequency breaking on a sloping beach in the UCL Ocean Towing Tank, with Dr Kevin Drake on eight course renaissance lute, playing 'Mr Dowland's Midnight' by John Dowland (1563-1626).

One of my colleagues thought at first that I might have placed a pre-recorded lute track alongside the sound of breaking waves during multi-track editing. Please note that it was a live single track recording with me playing the lute beside the beach.  Indeed, the repeated musical phrase at the ending was improvised on the basis of visual observation to synchronise the last chord with the last wave and then to follow through with a bass note.

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This track is part of our Sounds of UCL, a series of audio recordings from around the university created by our staff and students. For more sounds, check out the full set here:
https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/sounds-of-ucl

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Sounds of UCL (joint 1st place): Mechanical Engineering wave tank with lute

*Third place winner of the Sounds of UCL competition*

Room of refrigerators - Andrew Dehany, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

This track is published under Creative Commons Attribution, so you may download, use and remix, but you must cite the sound recordist and UCL as the source.

This track is part of our Sounds of UCL, a series of audio recordings from around the university created by our staff and students. For more sounds, check out the full set here:
https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/sounds-of-ucl

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Sounds of UCL (3rd place): Institute of Ophthalmology - Room of refrigerators

*Joint winner of the Sounds of UCL competition*
Mechanical Engineering Wave Tank - Kate Oliver
The ocean towing tank can reproduce the waves found in deep water, and is often home to ship models, prototypes for extracting tidal energy, or sea-bourne structures. Engineers use this facility, under the Engineering café, to test their designs and get the information about how water moves around and through them that computer models still aren't good enough to give. Controlled by computers that determine the size and frequency of the waves, panels push and pull hundreds of litres of water into a working model of the ocean.

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This track is part of our Sounds of UCL, a series of audio recordings from around the university created by our staff and students. For more sounds, check out the full set here:
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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Sounds of UCL (joint 1st place): Mechanical Engineering wave tank

Harry Griffin, UCLIC, ILHAIRE – The Science of Laughter
 
The ILHAIRE project (www.ilhaire.eu) brings together Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction to investigate how we can incorporate laughter into our interactions with computer-generated characters. Capturing different types of genuine, spontaneous laughs was an essential first step in modelling how laughter can be integrated naturally into conversations with artificial agents. Encouraging laughter in an experimental setting with lots of video, audio and body-movement recording equipment was a challenge. As you can hear from the clip of our participants playing Pictionary, a playful task combined with an exhilarating sense of urgency seemed to work! www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/

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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Sounds of UCL: ILHAIRE - the Science of Laughter

Attention DJs: Remix and sample our Sounds of UCL under Creative Commons

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/sounds-of-ucl
At UCL we recently ran a competition for people to record sounds around the labs, libraries and corridors of the university. We’ve now uploaded the best of these sounds and we’ve published most of them under Creative Commons. So if you’re a DJ, you may download, remix and sample these recordings in your own work. 

Feel free to use our sounds – just be sure to credit the sound recordist and UCL. And let us know what you create. We’ll like and repost your track.

There will be more sounds of UCL coming up, including many more from the arts and humanities recorded by our very own students.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Remix & sample our Sounds of UCL under Creative Commons

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Chopin: Balladen

Fantaisie-Impromtu in C Sharp Minor, Op. 66

Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor op. 66

Solo Violin: Ainhoa Galvany
Violins: Laura Torcal & Raquel Paleo
Viola: Isa Juarez
Cello: Queralt Garcia
Harpsichord: Ilil Danin

Recorded at the Fentener van Vlissingenzaal
Recording: NanoGrammophon

June2013
Utrecht

J. S. BACH - Violin Concerto in D minor BWV 1052. IIl. Allegro

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