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...is the name of my first album, heavily indebted to FreeSound. My profile tells me that I registered as a user here a bit over 10 months ago, and ever since I've been experimenting with creating music that incorporates weird samples and field recordings. Now one of my projects actually got to a point where I felt it was good enough to publish. You can find it on Bandcamp (https://signalsinnoise.bandcamp.com/album/a-brief-history-of-the-means-of-production) as a "pay what you want" (=free ) download, as well as pretty much any streaming / digital download platform under the artist name "Signals In Noise".

The album is a sort of auditory time travel through the various forms of human society from the hunter-gatherer-days on "Fire", through the agrarian "Sickle" and industrial "Hammer", to the glitchy "Ether", which in the spirit of remix-culture is built almost entirely out of elements appearing on the previous tracks.

Btw, if anyone has any suggestions on what genre this fits under, I would love to hear . I'm definitely influenced a lot by ambient, IDM and post-rock, but I don't know if I'd call it any of those. I guess we can always go with "experimental"!

The whole album is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license, so feel free to use it in your own projects as well. I've made some fragments of the song "Ether" available on FreeSound as well (although at the time of posting they're still waiting for moderation). I'm currently at the end of a very weak internet connection, so the selection is limited, but I might post more fragments once I get back to civilization. Let me know if you're interested! Also, if there's a specific fragment that you'd like a clean version of that I have not uploaded, you can always send me a private message.

Let me know what you think and follow me on the platform of your choice if you like, as I have a couple of other projects that are making good progress and might get posted relatively soon as well.

Finally, here's the list of Free Sounds used, by track:

"Fire":
CC-BY:
https://freesound.org/people/GregorQuendel/sounds/421878/ (mixed into the pad that comes in at the end to simulate the whole track burning down)
https://freesound.org/people/hubertmichel/sounds/40249/ (the bongos. In addition to this sound, I used the sounds "04.wav" and "10.wav" from the same pack)
https://freesound.org/people/y89312/sounds/139875/ (the elephant that I turned into a brass-type instrument)
CC-0:
https://freesound.org/people/martian/sounds/200185/ (the stampede in the intro)
https://freesound.org/people/aurelien.leveque/sounds/417635/ (the jungle sound at the background for the entire track)
https://freesound.org/people/dav0r/sounds/177133/ (chimpanzesnare. Name says it all )
https://freesound.org/people/J0ck0/sounds/397054/ (a gorilla sound that, modified a bit, serves the function of a bassdrum in the track)
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/134348/ (the weird animal you can hear shouting over the others with added echo and a bit of filtering to make it musical)

"Sickle":
CC-0:
https://freesound.org/people/wilhellboy/sounds/351367/ and https://freesound.org/people/wilhellboy/sounds/351366/ (the knife sharpening sounds that enter also in reverse)
https://freesound.org/people/silencyo/sounds/81721/ (the sounds of sickling)

"Hammer":
CC-0:
https://freesound.org/people/16FThumaF/sounds/505264/ (the "warzone" ambience coming in towards the end of the track)
https://freesound.org/people/michorvath/sounds/270589/ and https://freesound.org/people/michorvath/sounds/270588/ (the anvil hits)

"Ether":
as noted, Ether uses a number of the sounds used on the previous tracks, including the bongos, sickles, knife-sharpening and anvils mentioned above.

Huge thanks to all the amazing creators who posted these! I had a lot of fun making this thing and it wouldn't have been possible without you.