Freesound Fun
If you're a frustrated musician with a day-job (like me) enjoy experimenting and have been trying to find ways in which you can still explore musical ideas while at work. Here's one for you:
Goto www.freesound.org click on their search feature and type in a random word. You'll be presented with a webpage full of samples which you can preview. The fun thing is that you can play a whole bunch of them simultaneously. That's where the fun part of it comes in.
I'm sitting at work right now with an earbud from my headphones in my left ear listening to a melee
The 'metal' yielded:
Heavy Metal-overdriven guitar strumming
A sonar-like ambience
A clangy door-shutting
A chiming two-tone doorbell
A sword being removed from it's sheath
A musicbox rendition of Happy Birthday
A tibetan bell.
