The Freesound Project

The Freesound Project is a website that focuses completely on sounds or noises. The site does not contain music or spoken recordings. Instead, it consists completely of samples of noises. The Freesound Project goes beyond the limitations of just music and brings raw sound into the spotlight. On the actual website there are endless sound files uploaded from users that you can click on and listen to directly from the page. Not only can you listen to these sound files, but you can comment and download them as well. You can also interact with other Freesound users through Shoutbox. 

The originality of this project intrigued me immediately. I have never really heard too much about "sound artists," but this website brings them to your attention and completely focuses on them and their pieces or sounds. I listened to a few of the sound files and most of them were basic everyday sounds that one would not even notice. To hear absolutely nothing but a bike riding past with no picture to associate the sound with was a brand new experience for me. The sounds were raw and didn't need anything to complete them or take away from them.