[microsound] Requesting sounds for a process oriented piece / concept

[Batuhan Bozkurt]

Hi all,

I'm working on a simple music process (or process music concept) which  
needs input sounds of duration between 8 to 15 seconds. Instead of  
producing them all by myself (someone who is aware of the simple  
mechanics of the concept, and as a side effect partially perceptually  
blind to the unexpected opportunities that can be provided by  
unexpected source materials) I thought it might be interesting to ask  
the great people here for cooperation.

Here are some notes:
* 8 to 15 seconds long
* Inclusion of one or more acoustic source is desirable
* A single piece will be created by transformations of a single source  
sound, so inclusion of some sort of spectral and dynamic variation in  
the source works well
* Speech works well, especially if there is other intermittent  
sounds / noises (produced by instruments or otherwise) accompanying it.
* Composition of unrelated sounds also work well together in later  
stages
* The listener will hear the untransformed sound once at the beginning  
of a piece
* Sounds can be original productions, can be cut parts from your own  
pieces (if you are willing to), or can be parts from public domain or  
freely licensed recordings that you find interesting for such a  
purpose, as long as I'm allowed to use them.

I don't want to give the details of the musical process here now, not  
because I am intending to keep it a secret (I can't!), but because I  
don't want to influence the results directly by disclosing the simple  
mechanics of the system. If you want to know what it is about, please  
mail me off-list and I will gladly explain.

When I make something out of them (which is kind of, instantly, once I  
compile the source sounds) I am going to make a free online music  
release out of them for anyone to listen (by properly attributing each  
source sound to its owner of course!) and I will also provide the  
(open source) software I've written to compose them (it is a unguided  
stochastic system so permutations with one source is endless, if one  
wants to experiment). I will, of course, disclose the details of the  
process publicly if it needs any further explanation after listening.

I will also make sure the authors of the sounds will hear the pieces  
before I release them and they can opt-out at that stage, so I simply  
won't use that sound. And lastly, I won't be choosing anything here.  
If I get many contributions, I might release the "pieces" I happened  
to like the most, but I will include all the sounds in the software  
I'm going to provide (with proper attributions again, of course).

Please mail me off-list if you are willing to participate, I can also  
reply general questions from here.

Thanks for your attention.

Sincerely,
Batuhan Bozkurt
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