Audio for the SD Card

• Treat this content as if it were off-the-air radio.
• i.e If you sample a Michael Jackson song from the radio, it doesn't mean you have the rights to use that sample in your music.
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• Some of this material is recorded off-air from internet radio stations in languages that I don’t speak - my apologies if any material is offensive or inappropriate. Some of the material in English also includes strong language and crazy or offensive ideas.
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The following files take up just over 8gb on a SD Card.
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##0 ○○○○ Broadcast Radio A selection of 30 minute recordings, mainly taken from Internet Radio streams, October 2014.
MAROC.RAW | Radio Mars, Casablanca (Link)
ARCHERS.RAW | Two episodes of The Archers, Radio 4, October 2014 (Link)
ARGENTIN.RAW | Cadena 3, Argentina (Link)
BAMOKO.RAW | Dounia 105.4 FM, Bamako, Mali
JAMAICA.RAW | Power 106 Kingston Jamaica
JAMAICA2.RAW | Jamaican roots station Springline Radio (Source: archive.org) JAPAN.RAW | Onagawa Saigai 79.3, Ishinomaki, Japan
HONGKONG.RAW |
LUANDA.RAW | Radio Ecclesia, Luanda, Angola
MOSCOW.RAW | Echo Radio, Moscow (Link)
IR1.RAW | Persian Pop Hits
IR2.RAW | Sonati Radio, Iran (Link)
UKLOCAL.RAW | Snippets of UK Local radio '80s, '90s, '00s. (Source: Aircheck Downloads)
ICELAND.RAW | RUV Ras 1 Reykjavik, Iceland (Link)
SUPREME.RAW | Worlds Famous Supreme Team Show (Source: Old School Hiphop Tapes)
PEELHT.RAW | John Peel's Home Truths Radio 4 show, 9th October 2004 (Source: Soundcloud)
KOREA.RAW | South Korean radio
NKOREA.RAW | Radio Pyongyang from August 3rd, 1994 just a few weeks after the death of Kim Il Sung (Source: PCJ Media)

##1 ●○○○ Unusual Speech & Radio
30SRADIO.RAW | A selection of 1930s radio broadcasts, including Harry Houdini's last seance (Source: archive.org)
50SRADIO.RAW | A selection of 1950s radio broadcasts, starting with Sputnik (Source: archive.org)
ALIEN.RAW | Art Bell Alien interview HYPNO.RAW | 1970s self-hypnosis cassette (Source: Tape Findings)
INFOWARS.RAW | Alex Jones radio show, recorded off air, October 2014
LUCIER.RAW | 'I am sitting in a room' by Alvin Lucier (Source: UbuWeb)
SERMONS.RAW | A selection of sermons from 78 rpm records from the 'Goodbye Babylon' collection (Source: archive.org, Dust to Digital)
UFO.RAW | Edward R. Murrow's special report on Flying Saucers from 1949 (Source: archive.org)
BECKETT.RAW | Samuel Beckett read by Jack MacGrowan (Source: UbuWeb)
FULLER.RAW | Buckminster Fuller reading 'Critical Path' (Source: UbuWeb)
BUKOWSKI.RAW | A selection of poems read by Charles Bukowski (Source UbuWeb)
CAGEDIR.RAW | Extracts from John Cage's Diary How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (Source: UbuWeb)
ORSON.RAW | Extract from Orson Welles' 1938 War of The Worlds (Source archive.org)
BURROUGH.RAW | William Burroughs, Extracts from Breakthrough in the Grey Room (Source: UbuWeb)

##2 ○●○○ Robotic and Scientific Speech AMARILLO.RAW | NOAA Automatic Weather broadcasts, Amarillo. (Source: Weather Underground)
APOLLO.RAW | Speech from the Apollo 11 mission (Source: archive.org/NASA
HAWKING.RAW | Various text-to-speech tests, including 'I am Sitting in a Room', Molly Bloom's Soliloquy and 'White Lines' (Source: Generated using OSX text to speech)
UVB76.RAW | Russian Numbers Station
NUMBER1.RAW to NUMBER10.RAW | Numbers stations from the Conet Project (Source: archive.org, Irdial Discs)
LAPD.RAW | Police scanner recording from LA

##3 ●●○○ Ambient sounds & Field Recording BIRDSONG.RAW | Birdsong in a Kent Garden, 9 May 2011 (Source: archive.org)
CRACKLE.RAW | Vinyl crackles from Chia's Vinyl Sample Pack (Source: Chia)
A_CITY.RAW | Sounds of the city (Source: Compiled by TW)
B_CNTRY.RAW | Sounds of the countryside (Source: Compiled by TW)
BERLINFR.RAW | Various Berlin urban field recordings (Field Recording)
BRICK.RAW | Market Traders on Brick Lane (The London Sound Survey)
TOWER.RAW | Tower Bridge being raised, recorded inside the Bascule chamber (The London Sound Survey)
MINDGAP.RAW | London Underground announcements (The London Sound Survey)
OCCUPY.RAW | Occupy NY protests, 5 Oct 2011 (Lazyeight)
LADDER.RAW | Jacob's Ladder Arc generator (Richard Devine)

##4 ○○●○ Melodic and drone sounds ANTHEMS.RAW | A selection of national anthems performed by the US Navy band (Source: US Navy)
CARDEWGL.RAW | Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning Paragraph 7 (Source: UbuWeb)
CCCLASSIC.RAW | Creative Commmons Licensed classical recordings (Source: Second Fiddle, Soundcloud)
CHOIRS.RAW | Creative Commmons Licensed choir and organ recordings (Soundcloud sources: Jpianoguy, Paul Hertz, Ddohler, Smileyguy 1)
LOMAX.RAW | Selections from John & Ruby Lomax's 1939 recording trip to the Southern USA (Source: Library of Congress)
MONTE.RAW | La Monte Young - The Melodic Version of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer (Source: Roots and Traces)
QURAN.RAW | Radio Quraan (Link)
GDEAD.RAW | The Greatful Dead tuning their instruments, 1977 (excerpt) (Source: archive.org)
CHIMES.RAW | Wind Chimes (Source: [Standing Wave](https://soundcloud.com/standingwave/ and https://soundcloud.com/mahalik)

##5 ●○●○ Avant-Garde Music CAGEVARS.RAW | John Cage, Variations II (Source: Avant Garde Project, UbuWeb)
TREATISE.RAW | Cornelius Cardew, Treatise
FELDMAN2.RAW | Morton Feldman: King of Denmark (performed by Max Neuhaus) (Source: UbuWeb)

##6 ●●●○ Avant-Garde Songs and Poetry
FLATUS.RAW | Italian Flatus Vocal Trio - Tabula Plena/Grosso Modo/Nana (Source: UbuWeb)
ABRAMO.RAW | Marina Abramoviç - Bioguarde, Ulay (Source: UbuWeb)
MONK.RAW | Meredith Monk, Rally (Source: UbuWeb)
FELDMAN.RAW | Morton Feldman: Three Voices (For Joan La Barbara) (Source: UbuWeb)
LABRA.RAW | Joan La Barbara: selections from 73 Poems (Source: UbuWeb)

##7 ○○○● Drum Loops
BREAK1.RAW
BREAK2.RAW
BREAK3.RAW
BREAK4.RAW
BREAK5.RAW
BREAK6.RAW
BREAK7.RAW

##8 ○○○● Hi-fi Test Records
A selection of old Hi-fi test records found on YouTube. Mostly stereo demo records, that I've crushed into a single, relatively lo-fi mono recording.
RIGONDA.RAW | 1972 Soviet hi-fi test record (Source: YouTube Details: discogs)
AFTEST.RAW | Audio Fidelity stereo test (Source: YouTube)
OBSTACLE.RAW | Shure Audio Obstacle Course Era III, 1973 (Source: YouTube Details: discogs)
1912.RAW | Columbia 78rpm Demonstration Record, 1912 (Source: YouTube)
MAYFAIR.RAW | Mayfair Stereo Test Record (Source: YouTube)
PBELL.RAW | Packard Bell Stereophonic Demonstration Record (Source: YouTube)
PROJECT.RAW | Project 3 Stereo Test Record (Source: YouTube)
STFIDEL.RAW | Stereo Fidelity Demonstrator (Source: YouTube)

##9 ○●○● Music From Earth
This folder includes the musical recordings on the the Voyager Golden Record, the 12" gold-plated copper disks placed on board the Voyager interstellar probes launched in 1977. In 2012, the disk on board Voyager 1 left the solar system, 18bn kms from the Sun. The musical selections were made by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan, and include a court gamelan from Java, Chuck Berry, Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' and three pieces by Bach. Full details Source: Archive.org

##10 ●●○● Sounds From Earth
This folder includes the speech and sound recordings on the Golden Record, including animal noises, morse code, a jet fighter taking off, greetings in 55 languages and Laurie Spiegel's Harmonices Mundi. Full details and source: Nasa.gov

##15 ●○●●Test Files
These are quite unpleasant to listen to - you might want to delete them before using the module musically. Or you might want to make more - The 'Generate' menu in Audacity can create a lot of interesting sounds, which can the be exported.
SILENCE2.raw | Silence.
TONE1.raw | 440hz
TONE2.raw | 40hz
TONE3.raw | 4,000hz