Sound
Sound
Sound
Listening and Viewing Service
The Listening and Viewing Service provides free onsite public access to our collection of recorded sound and video.
Users can hear any item from our extensive holdings of published and unpublished recordings of music, wildlife, drama, literature, and oral history.
We can also provide access to archived BBC Radio broadcasts.
Mon - Thu: 10.00 - 20.00
Fri - Sat: 10.00 - 17.00
Sun and English Public Holidays: closed
You will need a Reader Pass. Over 200,000 digital tracks are available for instant access through our catalogue without an appointment, though you may have to make an appointment to listen to some sounds.
British Library Sounds offers free online access to 80,000 selections from the Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings.
T: +44 (0)20 7412 7418
E: Listening@bl.uk
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History and Etymology for sound
Noun (1)
Middle English soun, from Anglo-French son, sun, from Latin sonus, from sonare to sound; akin to Old English swinn melody, Sanskrit svanati it sounds
Adjective
Middle English, from Old English gesund; akin to Old High German gisunt healthy
Noun (2)
Middle English, from Old English sund swimming, sea & Old Norse sund swimming, strait; akin to Old English swimman to swim
Verb (2)
Middle English, from Middle French sonder, from Old French *sonde sounding line, probably from Old English or Middle English sund- (as in Old English sundlīne sounding line) from sund sea
Noun (3)
French sonde, from Middle French, literally, sounding line
Freesound Blog
SIAS project: Sound Art in Colombia
July 6th, 2020Proyecto SIAS[Guest Blog post by Jorge Mario Díaz Matajira, director of the SIAS project] SIAS stands for “Information System about Sound Art in Colombia” (from the spanish “Sistema de Información sobre el Arte Sonoro en Colombia”). SIAS (http://uan.sainethost.com/) is a project that … Continue reading → Read Full Entry
Barcelona Confinement Soundscape
April 29th, 2020ilaria[Guest Blog post by Ilaria Sartori and Gianni Ginesi] Dear fellow Freesounders, May we introduce Barcelona Confinement Soundscape, a collaborative soundmap and soundscape-related network of researchers, artists and neighbors who stay home and actively listen, record and reflect on soundscape … Continue reading → Read Full Entry
15 years of Freesound!
April 4th, 2020frederic.fontToday, 5th of April 2020, is the 15th anniversary of Freesound. Incredible, isn’t it? we couldn’t have imagined, when it all started back in 2005, that Freesound would become such a reference website for sharing Creative Commons sounds, worldwide. Freesound … Continue reading → Read Full Entry
Sustainability Report 2019
March 31st, 2020frederic.fontDear Freesounders, Last year we started the tradition of publishing a sustainability report to give you an update about how things are going in the Freesound world sustainability-wise, and to give you more insight about how do we work and … Continue reading → Read Full Entry
Recording Foley for Beginners on a Budget
March 20th, 2020Joao_Janz[Guest Blog post by João Janz] Before we Start… With this post I’m aiming to try and help anyone who wants to start recording foley sounds and doesn’t have a huge budget. It’ll be a simple list of do’s and … Continue reading → Read Full Entry
What’s New in the Sound?
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System Requirements for Sound
- First, download the Sound
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You can download its setup from given links: