Subject: Re: [Icad] Pointers to snoring sounds? From: Milena Droumeva <mvdroume@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:08:10 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Bruce, I don't know if you mean the World Soundscape Project, but in case you didn't - it was an initiative in the 70s led by R.M. Schafer and Barry Truax...Barry still hosts the huge library of recordings of contextual, environmental sounds at SFU - a large part of it is digitized and available royalty-free, as well as indexed (so you can find specific instances of sound). If you are interested, I can probably help make the contact with Barry, of you could approach him directly at truax@xxxxxxxx Hope this helps - your project sounds interesting! Milena Bruce Walker wrote: > Auditory Community, > > I am looking for any pointers to collections or archives of real- world > audio or video clips of snoring. > > In fact, I will also be looking for all kinds of daily life sounds, > ranging from birds chirping to ambulances to dishwashers. > > The sounds or video need to be good quality, real-world, and royalty- > free. I already have collections of sound effects and foley sounds; for > this project I will need more "real-world" audio, and more variety. I > am particularly interested in ecological audio, where the snoring, > dishwasher, vacuum cleaner, fire engine, etc., is recorded in its > natural acoustic environment, complete with competing environmental > sounds. For example, snoring recorded in a bedroom at night, or a fire > engine siren recorded live on the street, with other traffic noise, > jackhammers, and so on. > > I recall a project a few years ago to capture sounds of the world...any > pointers/updates on that? > > Any help would be most appreciated! > > --Bruce > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Bruce Walker, Ph.D. bruce.walker@xxxxxxxx > School of Psychology (404) 894-8265 (office) > Georgia Institute of Technology (404) 894-8905 (fax) > 654 Cherry Street, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30332-0170 > Web: http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~walkerb/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Icad mailing list > Icad@xxxxxxxx > http://www.santafe.edu/mailman/listinfo/icad > >