Audio Sources
NEW YORK STATE & CITY
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand video
NYC
Scanners, live feeds
LiveAtc.net
National and international air traffic controller feeds.
NATIONAL NEWS
Under C-SPAN’s copyright policy a license is generally not required to post a recording of C-SPAN’s video coverage of federal government events online for non-commercial purposes so long as C-SPAN is attributed as the source of the video. (You could just use the audio or the video.)
Senate Video Floor Proceedings
US CENSUS: PROFILE AMERICA PODCAST
PORTALS
THE INTERNET ARCHIVE:
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS:
http://commons.wikimedia.org
Speeches, Famous Quotes
Free Info Society Speeches, sound effects.
Hank Aaron, Spiro Agnew, Malcolm X , Huey Long: Share the Wealth, Maya Angelou: Presidential Inaugural Poem
American Rhetoric: Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two. Example: Rhetoric of Terrorism
Governmental sources
Library of Congress
LOC: American Memory
LOC: Moving Image Research Collection
Example: Presidential recordings
The Presidential Recordings Collection is made up of two distinct types of presidential speech: public speeches made by U.S. Presidents and secret recordings made in the White House between 1940 and 1973. Example: Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover on assassination
United Nations
Music
PROJECT GUTTENBERG (Free, Audio Book Recordings, Music):
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/3
FREESOUND:
http://www.freesound.org/
YOUTUBE:
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary
FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE:
http://freemusicarchive.org/
http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/Video/
iBEAT: CREATIVE COMMONS SAMPLE ARCHIVE:
http://ibeat.org
CC MIXTER ($ and Free):
http://dig.ccmixter.org/
AUDIO SOCKET ($8-$200):
https://www.audiosocket.com/
SOUNDCLOUD (OFFERS CC SEARCH OPTIONS):
http://soundcloud.com/
MOBY GRATIS (150 Free Tracks for Film from Moby):
http://www.mobygratis.com/
AUDIONAUTIX (FREE, NO COPYRIGHT)
http://audionautix.com/
JAMENDO ($ and free):
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
GETTY MUSIC SEARCH ($):
http://www.gettyimages.com/Music
ROYALTY FREE KINGS ($, ROYALTY FREE):
http://www.royaltyfreekings.com/
AUDIO PRODUCTION NETWORK ($):
http://us.audionetwork.com/
PURPLE PLANET (Free):
http://www.purple-planet.com/
PUBLIC DOMAIN MUSIC & SHEET MUSIC RESOURCES:
http://imslp.org/
http://www.pdinfo.com/
https://musopen.org/
The Cylinder Archive [www.cylinder.de] – Collection Site
The cylinder recordings available here are an online project started in 1998 by Norman Bruderhofer, a phonograph collector and audio preservationist from Berlin.
78 RPMs & Cylinder Recordings
Listen to this collection of 78rpm records and cylinder recordings released in the early 20th century. These recordings were contributed to the Archive by users through the Open Source Audio…
Netlabels Central database for worldwide free netlabels
Sound Click has Creative Commons licensing as an option, and you can search through those files only here
http://www.sonicsquirrel.net/ – curated netlabel aggregator
OLD TIME/HISTORIC AND POSSIBLY PUBLIC DOMAIN:
The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings — many are in the public domain. “Includes transfers of 78 rpm discs in the collection of the National Library of Canada, in mp3 and RealAudio formats. All recordings offered on this site have some connection to Canada, but this covers more than you might think (for instance, any ensemble including the Canadian-born performers Harry Macdonough or Henry Burr”
First Sounds is an informal collaborative of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, scientists, other individuals, and organizations who aim to make mankind’s earliest sound recordings available to all people for all time. Licensed CC-by
Tinfoil.com Glenn Sage’s Cylinder of the Month — At the start of each month, Glenn posts a new cylinder transfer on his site’s home page. To go straight to the archive of past Cylinders of the Month (there are over a hundred of them at this point), click here. Recent items in mp3 and RealAudio formats; earlier items only in RealAudio.
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry—Includes transfers of over 100 Berliner discs in the collection of the Library of Congress, in mp3 format. To go straight to the recordings, click here. *They provide copyright info, and it’s up to us to determine whether the recordings are in the public domain, this is a Library of Congress project.
http://www.phonozoic.net/listening.html –> links to many sites with digitized eary recordings
NOT CREATIVE COMMONS, BUT FREE:
[LittleWonder] 100 mp3s, Merle Sprinzen
ON THE FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE:
Oddio Overplay links to free mp3’s throughout the web (some are CC or public domain)
Existing Online Collections:
Indian Classical Carnatic music archive (some self-recorded, others digitized)
Lieder Sound Archive Lieder and other classical vocal pieces
http://old.hellosurprise.com/ Swedish pop, many downloads made available through the artists/labels themselves
All About Jazz 1500 free downloads, limited to their page. They require outside sites to host them. They keep track of download-count as a statistic. Contact them once we can offer hosting and embeddable player.
Sphere of Hip Hop a bunch of d/l’s from artists like Pigeon John
OnClassical mp3 previews are cc-licensed. Their “perfect cd-quality fully copyright protected” .wav files are not. They are collaborating with Jamendo link to article
Magnatune Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, especially good classical
Pennsound 8,000 files…
Avant Garde Project
For non-commercial, educational use only.
UCSB Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
- 6,000+ cylinders have been transferred and are available for listening
- 78 rpms have not been transferred
touch radio: 34+ freely downloadable podcasts from People Like Us, z’ev, Stephen O’Malley interviewing Dylan Carlson, Skull Defekts, Philip Jeck, more.
Climax Golden Twins’ Victrola Favorites
Gilbert Gil’s Brazilian folk preservation project
Open Directory: Samples and Loops
Find sounds
Sounddogs.com
Sound library
Free Soundtrack Music
TRIBE OF NOISE:
http://www.tribeofnoise.com/
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS
PODINGTON BEAR (FREE FOR NONCOMMERCIAL USE/PAID:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/
http://podingtonbear.com/?page_id=2
JARED C. BALOGH (CC/PAID DEPENDING):
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Balogh
http://www.alteredstateofmine.net/
CHRIS ZABRISKIE (CC/PAID DEPENDING):
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/
http://chriszabriskie.com/
JOSH WOODWARD (CC, Custom Song Options):
http://www.joshwoodward.com/sharing/
KEVIN MACLEOD (CC):
http://incompetech.com/
Literary
Librivox: Recordings of books in the public domain
Poets.org Some of these poems may be free to use, or may just require permission.
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