"The Freesounders Laptop Band" by Alessandro Perini - Explained

http://www.alessandroperini.com
http://www.freesound.org

How to play the Freesound Website by means of a browser.

Performance video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjr899pS1Xc&fmt=18

The Freesound Project (www.freesound.org) is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sound samples uploaded by users. By using the two main features of the Freesound Project search results page (preview and loop), The Freesounders Laptop Band is able to play the Freesound site, creating soundscapes and gestures from the sound samples provided by the community. This different way to exploit the website leads to a musical itinerary which depicts the different semantic areas that develop around the keywords used for the sample search feature. It can be thought of as a collaborative work in which the performer decides the structure and the Freesound community provides the content. The performance yields some copyright issues, since it is an improvisation on material provided by others. Being the sound samples free to download and available under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License, the performer must state every author of every file used in the performance: this is accomplished as long as the computer screen is videoprojected at the back of the performer and every sound preview already includes the name of the author. The Freesounders Laptop Band was premiered at Casa da Música in Porto (Portugal) on July 25, 2009, for the SMC2009 conference (Sound and Music Computing).

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Science & Technology

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• freesound
• performance
• electronic music
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• internet music
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great sounds, feels like pacman!