sampled talking

rbro · Post by **rbro** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:04 am

Anyone have a good online source of just random people talking. Conversations, weird quotes etc. Free is best.

erichkopp · Post by **erichkopp** » Mon May 22, 2006 1:28 am

Maybe go to a mall or anywhere that you're likely to find a crowd and record the people around you. That'd work especially well if your computer has a mic built in. That way it'd be your own sample too, which I always find more rewarding.

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:44 am

Grab an older stereo, put in a tape, turn on AM radio, find some conservative talk show, hit record, or wait for the late night talk shows and find a call in talk show about UFOs and stuff.

Negativeland did this stuff so well, gods among men.

rbro · Post by **rbro** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:00 am

Someone asked a similar question in another thread and reminded me of a great source I had completely forgotten. ARCHIVE.ORG. I've hit the motherload.......

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:19 am

One of my personal faves. Full audio files available, but of course given the age of the recordings, these are not hifi. Still, some very unique and crazy shit here. Blurb from the site follows the link. Enjoy!

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Cylinder recordings, the first commercially produced sound recordings, are a snapshot of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. They have long held the fascination of collectors and have presented challenges for playback and preservation by archives and collectors alike.

With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 6,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online.

On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.