SoundCloud Fellows Guidebooks stopped by the office and said “Hej”!
You can contribute to their fellowship by submitting your own sounds!
This week’s Follow the Fellows guest blog post is by Laura Haapio-Kirk whose project, Sound School, is one of the 2012 SoundCloud Community Fellows.
For thousands of years, we have used sound to create rhythms, songs, stories and all kinds of magic. Passed on from person to person, knowledge of how to work with sound has often been limited to having access to the right people. Now that we are so connected online, we are in a better position than ever to learn from each other and from the artists we admire.
Sound School is on its way to becoming a home for educational content on sound, fuelled by the massive skill and talent of the SoundCloud community. For example a professor from Berklee College of Music had the idea to start a set of musical terms explained through sound. Have a listen and upload your own favourite musical term, expressed as creatively as you like!
People are also sharing knowledge on different aspects of sound technology. Help us get this off the ground, so if you have a specific technology tip, please share it and help others out! If you feel like your advice requires screenshots, share a link to them in the timed comments at the relevant moment. Simple!
Sound School is also actively seeking collaboration with educational institutions and are excited to be partnering with the SAE Institute. Their instructors are in the process of recording their “Sound Advice” series which will be a collection of tips and advice based on questions that keep coming up in class. How awesome!
In terms of inspiration, nothing beats hearing from people who are working every day with sound. We want to know things like how you got to where you are now, how you found your style, what goes behind the song writing process, and your biggest lessons so far. The SoundCloud Heroes have given us a wonderful start by sharing their experiences, as you will hear below. Now we need you to share yours!
A new topic we’re working on is ‘Designs for Sound School’. Do you have an idea for how sound education can be improved? A piece of technology that would make a great teaching tool? An opinion on how we should approach sound education? Ideas big and small, we want to hear them all! Those with the best ideas will be invited to come and talk about them at the Sound School event happening in the coming months. This promises to be a wonderful evening where you will get to meet other SoundClouders and share your knowledge and passion for sound in person!
For more ideas on how you can contribute to Sound School, check us out ourTumblr, Facebook, Google+ and follow us on Twitter.
The whole idea, he [David Noël] explained, is to “showcase the breadth of how sound can be used in many different ways.” In other words, it’s a goodwill-fostering way to model the type of content the SoundCloud team would like to see on the platform, and perhaps inspire users to new heights of creativity. (No mean goal, that.)
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Introducing our 2012 SoundCloud Community Fellows!
After receiving 184 stellar proposals, we’d love to introduce you to the final 15 SoundCloud Community Fellows. Listen and find out more about their unique sound projects here.
Hey folks! Here’s your latest update on the 2012 SoundCloud Fellowship.
The call-for-entries phase has ended and you can explore all 184 sound creation project proposals right here. What’s next? Well, tomorrow we will hand over the project proposals to our amazing panel of judges who will take a few days to assess your project ideas before we announce the final selection here on the blog on August 15.
It’s getting exciting :)
Hey thanks for spreading the word, This American Life!
If you were considering to submit your sound creation project proposal and apply for the SoundCloud Fellowship, now is the time.
We’re accepting proposals until Friday 27 before our amazing panel of judges will select the 10 Fellowship projects for 2012.
Final call to make your dream project a reality with the help of the Community team.
SoundCloud Fellowship: Selection Panel Announced
Today, we’re thrilled to announce the panel of judges who will help choose our 2012 Fellowships!
- Soraya Darabi is a New York City based entrepreneur, working on a new initiative. She is a co-founder of Foodspotting and sits on the Notables Board of Carnegie Hall.
- Julie Shapiro, artistic director of the Third Coast Audio Festival, the country’s biggest showcase of audio feature and documentary work.
- Lea Thau, The Peabody award-winning creator of The Moth Radio Hour and the new hit radio show Strangers
- Steve Angello of the world-renowned Swedish House Mafia
- Producer Shea Shackelford representing AIR (the Association of Independents in Radio)
- Corey Ford of The Public Media Accelerator, a new incubator for public-service media focused start-ups
- Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital officer of Columbia University
- Tyler Moody, Vice President of CNN Radio
- Nuala McGovern, Presenter of the BBC World Service’s Newsday
- The crew from NPR and PRX’s Snap Judgment
Read more about the progress of the SoundCloud Fellowship program here. You have until July 27 to submit a proposal for your sound creation project and receive financial support to make it happen. Go go go…
Creative minds in the UK, heads up:
Become our Arts & Culture Fellow with financial support and open doors to the Fringe Festival, the British National Opera and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Learn about how to submit your sound creation project for the Arts & Culture Fellowship here.
High five, creative minds expressing their vision through sound!
We just announced the 2nd annual SoundCloud Community Fellowship. From mid-August to mid-October 2012, we will support up to 10 Fellows as they pursue a project of their own design using sound as a creative medium.
Our Fellows are people who want to be heard, people with a story to tell, pursuing sound projects that cause a visceral reaction in their listeners. Our Fellows aim to make us laugh, cry, or think. They want to inspire and motivate others to follow in their footsteps and express creatively through sound. And together, we’ll demonstrate to the world the compelling nature of sound.
Hooked? Learn about you can get SoundCloud’s support for to bring your creative sound project to life here.
