www.brussels2000.org/distortedmedia
The Distorted Media is an interactive sound database. It is growing like an independent organism. There is no way to predict what it will become: will it be a sleep inducing new age baby or an exciting noise tumour?  It's up to you. This is a free access database: everybody can download and upload sounds for creative and non-commercial purpose.
The centre of the Distorted Media project is an internet sound database where people can download a file, do whatever they want with it and then upload it again.
There are some sounds in the database to start the process: field recordings, interviews, short wave radios and other things recorded in Brussels. The identity of the database is now evolving freely, growing in an organic way and getting further and further from those very concrete Brussels sounds.
This is a free access and fully automated database. When somebody uploads a sound, we ask him/her to give us some info about it so it will be possible for other users of the database to fall upon that particular sound (info about which languages are used, the presence or absence of melodic elements, rhythm, synthetic sounds, field recordings and so on). Those are the criteria of the database search engine.
During the year 2000, the database will be used as a tool for live events and radio pieces. You'll find info about those events on www.brussels2000.org/distortedmedia and it will be possible to listen to the radio sessions for the whole year through the Radiolab website www.brussels2000.org/radiolab
contact:
distortedmedia@brussels2000.org
Pierre De Jaeger
Brussels2000
30-36 bd Anspachlaan
1000 Brussels

32 2 214 2003

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