ion goes mobile
For those of you not on the UK Acoustic Ecology group - here is a way
for you to some return on all that time spent in the field recording...
Chris.
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Subject: Ringtones go wild - British Library Sound Archive Wildlife
Collection goes mobile
Here is a new initiative that is going to be a fascinating addition to
the soundscape, pasted from http://www.bl.uk/cgi-bin/news.cgi?story=3D1354
John.
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Forty sounds have been sold to iTouch and Mobiletones, which are
offering mobile phone users a range of recordings from penguins to pig
grunts as ringtones. The recordings can be downloaded from the internet
to the latest polyphonic mobile phones for a small fee.
The British Library had been approached by a range of mobile companies
in the past but did not allow its collections to be used until the
technology was available. The current top of the range mobile phones
provide far better audio quality than before.
Richard Ranft, Curator of Wildlife Sounds at the British Library said:
"We have a vast collection of wildlife sounds at the Library including
British wildlife and more exotic birds and animals from the Amazon to
the Serengeti. The British Library has one of the most important
collections of wildlife sounds in the world and has been used in
scientific research over the last forty years.
We are delighted that these sounds are now being used as ringtones as it
allows the British Library to reach a new generation and increases
access to our collections.
We have produced a range of CDs with bird sounds originally aimed at
bird watchers and nature lovers but have found that they are used in
doctors' surgeries for their calming effects. We hope people will find
their mobile ring tones as relaxing."
Mobile Sounds: Penguins colony, Lapwing calls, Green Woodpecker yaffle
call,
Tropical Boubou duet, Screaming Piha song, Amazon parrots calls, Manx
Shearwater caterwauling, Fiery-necked Nightjar song, Redshank alarm,
Chiffchaff song, Loons yodelling, Black-throated Diver yodelling,
Mallard1 calls male, Black-headed Gull calls, Desert Cobra attack,
Colobus monkey
calls, Cattle lowing, Barn Owl scream, Tawny Owl song, Great Spotted
Woodpecker drumming, Cuckoo song, House Martin song, Blackbird song,
Blackbird alarm, Sedge Warbler song, Chough calls, Greenfinch song,
Nightingale song, Garden Warbler song, Canada Goose calls, Dawn chorus
(stereo), Marsh Frog, Pigs grunting, Lions snarl.
For more details please contact:
For further information or to interview Richard Ranft please contact
Bart Smith or Catriona Finlayson on +44 (0)20 7412 7114 or 7115 email
or
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Dr John Levack Drever
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