[NewMusic] Fwd: Would You Please Donate Some Samples to Me for OLPC

[matt]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Richard Boulanger <rboulanger at berklee.net>
> Date: August 2, 2007 7:43:38 PM PDT
> To: Rick Boulanger <rboulanger at berklee.edu>
> Subject: Would You Please Donate Some Samples to Me for OLPC
> Reply-To: Richard Boulanger <rboulanger at berklee.net>
>
> Dear Students, Colleagues, and Friends,
>
> I hope you are having a productive, fun, and relaxing summer.
> (If you get a few copies of this email, please forgive me, but....)
>
> As some of you may know, I have been very busy over the past
> year working with Barry Vercoe on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)  
> $100 Laptop Computer
>
> http://laptop.org/laptop/
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home
>
> This incredibly powerful machine, which will be given for free to
> some of the poorest children in the world is destined to change
> how students everywhere learn, collaborate, and share.
>
> I am happy to tell you that the core audio software that is running
> on these machines is Csound5!  It ALL runs. And it all SOUNDS amazing.
>
> I know that you are thinking that Csound is probably too difficult for
> Children to learn and use, but....
>
> Check out Jean Piché's Tam Tam application to get some idea
> of how we are wrapping Csound into Friendly Games and Activities
> and thus making Csound easy for young children to use and learn.
>
> miniTamTam - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31L9qaxOrp0
> synthLab - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwqt8NMT-zI
> interviews - http://tamtam4olpc.wordpress.com/
>
> I spent last year building and testing instrument models for the  
> machine.
> (My students made some amazing musical examples that served as
> demos for the rollouts and for the diplomats and ambassadors from
> all the nations involved).  Check out the nations list:
>
> http://www.laptop.org/en/vision/progress/maps.shtml
>
> There will be 3 million units delivered to children in these host  
> countries in the fall!
> (and over 10 million are planned over the next few years!)
>
> This summer, I am collecting and editing samples for a huge archive
> of free books, art, music, samples, games, etc...) that OLPC will be
> setting up at each host school (they call this the *school servers*)
>
> M-Audio - through MS Alum and now Software Project Manager -  Jason  
> McClinsey  - will be donating a General MIDI set
>
> I have donated a collection from The Csound Book (and some other  
> little things I have done in Csound)
> -- http://csounds.com/BoulangerSamplesVol1-44_1k.zip
>
> Berklee will be donating all the Samples from Mike Brigida's  
> Sampling Classes over the past 20 years (here are a few)
> -- http://csounds.com/BerkleeFXvol1-44_1k.zip
>
> Two of my current students (Glenn Forsythe and Lee Barkovich) have  
> donated small collections of their samples
> -- http://csounds.com/BerkleeStudentsVol1-44_1k.zip
>
> I would like to include some samples from YOU in this Archive.
>
> SOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
>
> Do you have ANY samples...
> - sound fx, loops, acoustic traditional instruments, acoustic  
> ethnic/world instruments, animals, environments, drumkits, etc..
>
> ... that YOU have RECORDED, SAMPLED, SYNTHESIZED;
> - they have to be YOUR sounds - not sounds you have purchased or  
> taken from records, you recorded/created them
>
> ... that you would be willing to DONATE to the project.
> - you would be giving them away (under the creative commons license)
>
> I will make sure your NAME is associated with your donation (on the  
> OLPC website and in the OLPC archive)
> IMAGINE 3 MILLION KIDS making music with your guitar samples, your  
> woodflute samples, your slidewistle samples,
> your wind, rain, traffic, kitchen utensils, explosions, pianos,  
> sitars, tablas, drumloops, etc....
>
> I will edit ALL the samples into the format we need for OLPC.  And....
> I will make sure YOUR samples are in folders with YOUR name on them
> in the Archive.
>
> No donation is TOO small.
>
> Just think about some of the samples you have made, and think about  
> what set of these might make a nice collection
>
> crickets & frogs
> sitars and tabla
> breaking glass
> car engines
> footsteps
> machine noises
> brooks and streams
> raindrops
> thunder
> screams and yells
> breathing and whispering
> crying
> laughing
> jets and planes
> trains
> dogs and cats
> koto
> marimba
> vibes
> bass
> guitar
> trumpet
> accordions
>
> DrumLoops
> Arpeggios
> bassloops
>
> OneShots, With Loops, Without Loops, MultiSamples, LoFI, HiFi,  
> Mono, Stereo, Short, Long,
> - ALL WOULD BE COOL and USEFUL and INCLUDED
> (I need them NOW - in the next couple of weeks.... so, don't make  
> anything new, just look
> over what you have already and what from that might be cool to  
> donate and share.)
>
> Check out Glen and Lee's nice little set of things and think about  
> what you might have to offer.
> -- http://csounds.com/BerkleeStudentsVol1-44_1k.zip
>
> Remember that these samples are going ALL over the world and world  
> instruments would be most especially appreciated.
>
> TO SEND THEM TO ME:
> - zip whatever samples you would like to donate
> email me a link to the archive you have posted with either:
> MEGAUPLOAD
> - http://www.megaupload.com/
> or
> YouSENDIT
> -http://www.yousendit.com/
> or
> your own ftp site.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you and sharing your sounds with  
> some of the poorest and most deserving children in the world.
> This is a major educational and peace initiative.  I hope that you  
> will become part of the movement by donating some of your
> samples.
>
> Wishing you all the very best.
>
> Dr. B.
>
>
> Dr. Richard Boulanger
> 495 Marion Ave
> Dighton, MA 02715
> rboulanger at berklee.edu
> rboulanger at csounds.com
> http://csounds.com/boulanger
>
>
>

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