For other versions of the logo, check these urls:

• adobe illustrator:  http://media.freesound.org/files/logo/freesound_logo.ai
• pdf: http://media.freesound.org/files/logo/freesound_logo.pdf
• adobe photoshop: http://media.freesound.org/files/logo/freesound_logo.psd
• small png (needs tweaking): http://media.freesound.org/files/logo/freesound_logo_small.png
• large png (needs tweaking): http://media.freesound.org/files/logo/freesound_logo_large.png

The PNG version were made by me and still need tweaking to get the best result. The designers will make new PNG versions especially for web-use.

you can now follow freesound 2 development on twitter, just follow the user freesounddev: http://twitter.com/freesounddev/

If you’re not a developer you might not understand everything, as there are so called “commit messages”, but you might see things flying past you recognize

- Bram

Eric from nibblesoft wrote me a while back that he was working on a freesound application for the iphone / ipod touch. We’re quite happy with the pplication, it’s fun to see the first custom application on a handheld device! Have a look at the page on nibblesoft’s website, or alternatively, go directly to the itunes store. The application isn’t free, but Eric has promised us that he will donate part of the income to Freesound, which makes us very happy!

Some information about the app… Features Include:

• Search freesound.org and listen to sounds.
• Request any freesound.org sound to be emailed to you as a ringtone.
• Record your own sounds and submit recordings to freesound.org over WiFi.
• “Loop” sounds during playback.
• Rate a sound.
• Email a link to a sound.
• Over 150 sounds come “pre-marked” as favorites.
• Search your favorites list or recordings list.

Here are some screenshots:

I will be one of the tutors in the Sound and Music Computing (SCM) Summer School on Interactions with Environmental Sounds. It will take place at the Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, from July 18 to 21, 2009. The topic of this summer school is audio/field recording and processing/analysis of those sounds.

The main teachers will be Joel Chadabe (Electronic Music Foundation), Marcelo Wanderley (McGill University, Montreal) and Xavier Serra (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain). Other tutors include Jean-Julien Acouturier, Stephan Baumann, Eoin Brazil, Federico Fontana, Luis Gustavo Martins, Rui Penha and Stefania Serafin.

Students can register to participate to the upcoming SMC Summer School by making an application. Summer school student grants will be provided by the COST Action IC0601 on Sonic Interaction Design.

Application deadline: 24th April.

More info: http://smcnetwork.org/summerschool/porto2009

“The Music Technology Group (MTG) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona started in 2008 the project Sons de Barcelona (Sounds of Barcelona) in order to offer to everybody a database of sounds of this city created in a collaborative way, with the contribution of the citizens themselves and integrated into the international project freesound.org, also from MTG. The sounds are recordings of acoustic environments of Barcelona or different sounds generated in very different ways by the users, and published under Creative Commons License (so they can be freely re-used again). The Sounds of Barcelona team conducts workshops addressed to different collectives in order to propagate the use of audio technologies, to teach how to take advantage of all their possibilities, and to awake an interest towards working with sounds.

The aim of this call is to activate, to promote, and to support works related to the sound sphere of the city of Barcelona and it is addressed to everybody interested in make their projects known. “

http://media.freesound.org/files/newplayer/

This is the player that will be displayed in the “single sample view” page. You will need flash 10 to see it: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

Please let me know your opinions, and if you find any bugs… I’d like to hear about those as well.

For those of you interested in seeing the source code (GPL license!), you can do that right here:
http://github.com/bram/freesound/tree/bae1763d1abe9b4d09ed994ba413d68c4fac5412/sandbox/flash10player

The front page, dynamic version. Contains live updated news items from the blog, etc. TODO on this page: the sound player is just an image, the star rating isn’t real yet. Latest uploads (not seen here) is working but might need tweaking). On the top you can see what a logged in user sees…

The html draft of the simgle sample page. This page is a static HTML page, i.e. straight from pixelshell. The user avatars are missing, the colors need tweaking, the download button needs to be yellow, … but the general layout is there. This one also features the new and awesome “huge” sample player we’ve developed and will be shown to the community soon.

The forum front page. The little text bubbles light up if there are new posts since you last visited. This is a dynamic version, no a static html page. As you can see we’ve gone for a very minimal feel.

Forum threads. Sticky threads are red and stay on top. The minimal pagination you see at the top will be used everywhere in freesound. Again a live page, fully functional.

Forum posts. TODO on this page: only the user avatars… Smileys are very simple and minimal (you can see one at the bottom), the whole style is very “light”. You can quote a post by clicking the quotation marks right next to it.

Message inbox. Functional page, but no design yet! The message “outbox” from phpbb has been removed (as it created much confusion!). We now have inbox, sent messages and archive. Messages can be either archived or deleted.

Without further ado, here is the freesound 2 ticketing  service: http://freesound.lighthouseapp.com/

Please only use it for future freesound 2 tickets, not freesound 1 tickets.

I thought you might be interested in coming to this summer school!

Best regards,

emilia

We are pleased to announce the 2009 Summer School in Sound and Music Computing & SID Training School on Interactions with Environmental Sounds.

It will take place in Casa Da Música, Porto, Portugal, July 18th-21st, 2009, just before the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference.

The theme of this summer school is Interacting with Sounds of Porto. This summer school will explore the potential of recording, processing, sharing and interacting with city sounds.

During 4 days, the program will include lectures, as well as hands-on practical sessions under the supervision of tutors who will provide one-to-one mentoring on artistic and/or scientific projects focused on interactions with sounds that reflect the city of Porto and its activities. Speed talks and poster sessions will also be organized for students to present and receive feedback on their current research, and to foster scientific cross-fertilization.

Lectures and teachers

1. Design of new interfaces for musical expression . Marcelo Wanderley.
2. Registering the soundscape. Joel Chadabe.
3. Sound edition, description and retrieval, social networks. Xavier Serra.

Tutors and proposed topics

1. Jean-Julien Aucouturier (Topic: Hearing objects)
2. Stephan Baumann (Topic: UrbanSync: back in Porto)
3. Eoin Brazil (Topic 1: Porto sound shaker. Topic 2: Porto Mobile Sound Wall. Topic 3: Porto fact-oid mutlimedia kiosk)
4. Bram de Jong (Topic: Porto in Freesound)
5. Luis Gustavo Martins (Topic: Automatic segmentation, classification and clustering of sounds of Porto for tangible interaction)
6. Rui Penha (Topic: Interfaces and algorithms for Casa da Mùsica robotic Gamelan)
7. Stefania Serafin and Federico Fontana (Topic: Natural interactive walking in Porto)

Dates

April 24th / Deadline for application (see details on the web)

May 12th / Notification of acceptance

There will be a registration fee of 200€ to the Summer School. The COST Action IC0601 on Sonic Interaction Design will provide financial help to a selection of students under the form of individual fixed grants of 500 Euros (preference will be given to students whose proposal projects best fit SID topics -see here).

Summer School students are also encouraged to attend the Sound and Music Computing Conference (23-25th July 2009). There will be special (lower) conference fees for Summer School students.

More info at http://www.smcnetwork.org/summerschool/porto2009

Stay tuned on the summer school and conference news:

• RSS feed: http://smc2009.smcnetwork.org/news/news/RSS .
• Facebook group: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42958077160 .
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/smc2009

All source code for freesound “2.0″ a.k.a. nightingale can now be found over at github:

http://github.com/bram/freesound/tree/master/

Update your links!