Free Field Recordings: The Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

[pw]

http://babelaudio.net/gse/

Random recordings from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, with ambient tourist noises and shuffling around the (huge) church, hymns in latin, and coptic christian chanting...

Maybe interesting for you guys who are manipulating audio in unholy ways

check the info tags in each file for more about the particular segments.

I am slowly starting to build Global Sonic Ecology for field recordings. If anyone wants to submit field recordings from anywhere of anything, contact me, and I can either host, or link to, your files.

Thanks.

[Mutant]

Thanks !
There are some interesting unholy parts in these recordings.

[89]

Thanks a lot man, this sounds nice. Are these copyright free and free to use for whatever reason?

I am slowly starting to build Global Sonic Ecology for field recordings. If anyone wants to submit field recordings from anywhere of anything, contact me, and I can either host, or link to, your files.

Will do, I've been using my H4 outside lately and got some interesting soundscapes I'd like to share.

[pw]

Thanks a lot man, this sounds nice. Are these copyright free and free to use for whatever reason?

I am slowly starting to build Global Sonic Ecology for field recordings. If anyone wants to submit field recordings from anywhere of anything, contact me, and I can either host, or link to, your files.

Will do, I've been using my H4 outside lately and got some interesting soundscapes I'd like to share.

well, they are not copyright free for *any* reason... you can't sell them "as is", or re-distribute them. but you can use them any way you want in music, production, sound design - they are royalty free for such uses..

[djgroovy]

Nice, thank you, pw.

[Mutant]

well, they are not copyright free for *any* reason... you can't sell them "as is", or re-distribute them. but you can use them any way you want in music, production, sound design - they are royalty free for such uses..

I have a question for you:

If for example someone was singing on a street (or in a church in our situation) and I recorded the performance - do I have to ask that someone for a permission to use the recording or is the recording 100% mine because I captured it ?
How does it look from a legal point of view ?

[pw]

Hi Mutant,

It is a really good question. I personally see field recording (a "discipline" with a history of its own separate from "stealth" recording and "bootlegging") as a practice like photography (still and video), and, like a photographer doesn't need permission to shoot in public, or then go on to display or even sell "her/his" work, likewise the field recordist.

Discuss?

[Mutant]

Hi Mutant,

It is a really good question. I personally see field recording (a "discipline" with a history of its own separate from "stealth" recording and "bootlegging") as a practice like photography (still and video), and, like a photographer doesn't need permission to shoot in public, or then go on to display or even sell "her/his" work, likewise the field recordist.

Discuss?

OK and what if I simply stick my microphone out of my window ?
There is a children playground outside and sometimes I hear some very interesting sounds (for example little girls screaming at the top of their lungs - good for horror music hehehe).

If the microphone is in my own apartment then IMHO all these sounds should be 100% mine ?

[Sickle]

Nice. I'll merge these with some of voidoid's cthulhu chantings and have my next Lovecraftian track.

[pw]

Hi Mutant,

It is a really good question. I personally see field recording (a "discipline" with a history of its own separate from "stealth" recording and "bootlegging") as a practice like photography (still and video), and, like a photographer doesn't need permission to shoot in public, or then go on to display or even sell "her/his" work, likewise the field recordist.

Discuss?

OK and what if I simply stick my microphone out of my window ?
There is a children playground outside and sometimes I hear some very interesting sounds (for example little girls screaming at the top of their lungs - good for horror music hehehe).

If the microphone is in my own apartment then IMHO all these sounds should be 100% mine ?

yes, where exactly is the problem? I too have been meaning to record some kids in the playground...

[Mutant]

yes, where exactly is the problem?

I don't know.
Always better safe than sorry I guess.

I'm simply not sure who by default "owns" the recording.
Sound recording engineer or performer ?

Do you remember the fairly recent "The Wall" lawsuit ?

[PTV]

Thank you!

[rockstar_not]

Anytime I see threads on field recording, I feel responsible to let folks know about the Freesound project. Go there, you'll like it.

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

-Scott

[Klemperer]

Thanks for the link, just downloading .

[pw]

Nice. I'll merge these with some of voidoid's cthulhu chantings and have my next Lovecraftian track.

sounds great, let me know if/when you use this stuff.