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We plan to organize an activity by the end of February at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) in which a number of young students will create sounds collectively with their voices, bodies or objects. We will record and share those sounds on Freesound.
If you have a specific need of a sound that we can produce collectively, let us know!

wow. Pretty interesting. Thumbs up.

Hey,

Sounds cool!

I work on a lot of game projects and always need more crowd sounds!
The following would be really useful:

- Cheers, short/long, with clapping, without etc
- Collective gasps and 'ooh's and 'aah's and things like that
- Suspense buildups, like 'aaaaaaaaahhhhh' as if a crowd is watching something exciting and tense, maybe some ending in cheers or disapointed sounds.
- Various shouted celebratory words 'yes' yay' 'yippee' 'whoohoo' etc

Any of them would be awesome

lolamadeus wrote:

- Cheers, short/long, with clapping, without etc
- Collective gasps and 'ooh's and 'aah's and things like that
- Suspense buildups, like 'aaaaaaaaahhhhh' as if a crowd is watching something exciting and tense, maybe some ending in cheers or disapointed sounds.
- Various shouted celebratory words 'yes' yay' 'yippee' 'whoohoo' etc

Any of them would be awesome

I will be needing a sound for a up coming project(I will give you credit if you make it and if I use it):

I need a crowd riot, people complaining, yelling, saying negative things.

I don't want there voices to be heard completely because then it may not make sense with what here complaining about, kind of like a background riot sound(When you can't understand them but you can understand the situation.)

I hope you can help me, when the project is done I will post it in the "Your work, made with Freesound(s)" forum. If you can't help me then I will have to request this in the "Sample Request" Forum.

Thanks in advance

How about a sonic equivalent of the 'human wave' ?
Woudl be like this:
You wait for the person on your left to snap their fingers, then you do it, then the person to your right...
You can use other sounds too: claps, feet stomps,tongue/mouth clicks ...

What does a crowd of people whistling sounds like? Can they all tune into one note? I guess not, they would probably be all over the place...

What about everyone rubbing their clothes at the same time?

Has a crowd beatboxing ever been tried before? - you would need to play them a rhythm first and then they all trhy to imitate it.
What do we call this, actually: crowd beatboxing or beatboxing chorus?

What about the same as the above but split it up: Guys do the kick drum only, girls do the snares, back row does the high-hats... Or some other combination...

sounds like a fun project. some ideas:

quiet crowd- if you have a chance to record in a quiet room, it could be nice to have the participants just sit while you record the room ambience + random noises.

group footsteps- slow/fast walking and running group of people. You could place the mic(s) in the center and ask the participants to form a circle around it.

group whispering- using a stereo setup, spread the participants around the room and ask them to whisper randomly.

Both military style marching footsteps and chaotic (tell them to try evade imaginary swordfighters?) footsteps would be cool.

Laghter, for example arrogant/dismissive/schadenfreude (tell them they just saw their least favorite politician slipping on a banana peel and landing in mud puddle?)

Maybe ask them to laugh as if they were a little child and then as if they were an old big grown-up.

Ghost sounds, silly "whooo" "booo" and things like this. Oh and zombie sounds of course (moaning, growling...)

Attack battle chant sounds like http://www.freesound.org/people/TeamMasaka/sounds/197432/ (starting with 3rd) perhaps.

I'd love to hear a crowd pretend to be cats/sheep/cows/dogs/lions too

Overtone singing (western style, not khoomei-like) of a group.

Let's go John Cage style and see how well a large group of young people can stand in silence.

Wow, you got a lot of requests. You better get started, lol

Thanks for the inputs. Uau, some of your ideas are very challenging! we will try our best
We will have 10 groups of about 20 students each.
I'll post the links as soon as we have the recordings.

Piano One Shots would be Epic

Dark Dark Stuff !

Hello everyone,
the collective sounds recording with students has been very fun.
Find here the sounds recorded.

https://www.freesound.org/people/sonsdebarcelona/packs/14044/

Hope some of them are useful for your!