Today we’re announcing our new audio series ‘SoundCloud Speaks’, where we’ll be taking an in-depth look into stories from the ‘cloud, shedding light on new features, and showcasing some of your fantastic work!
In this first episode, we had a chat with Disquiet‘s Marc Weidenbaum about ambient music, noise, and the compositional challenges he sets using SoundCloud. Marc curated Instagr/am/bient, where 25 ambient producers swapped Instagram photos and composed music to match the photo they received, and currently is running Junto weekly where Marc sets a weekly brief, giving users four days to submit a composition to a SoundCloud Group.
Marc Weidenbaum
For a list of the music featured, head to the show’s page on SoundCloud.
If you’d like to get involved with Marc’s projects, head to disquiet.com, or visit the Junto SoundCloud group.
SoundCloud Speaks is your show, so let us know what you’d like to hear. If you have a story you’d like to tell, a question you’d like answered, or want to recommend a friend’s sounds for us to share, get in touch by either leaving a comment here, or sending us a voice message at our dropbox. We’re also looking for some more voices for our intro jingles, if you fancy being included, just send us a recording of you saying ‘SoundCloud Speaks’, and we’ll throw it in the mix.
Thanks again for listening, hope you enjoy!
(For more spoken word, check out our blog series ‘SoundCloud Voices’)
Lord Edward Dark is the solo project of Phillip Collings, full of lush orchestrations and harmonious vocals. Phillip’s currently posting the progress he’s making on two new albums over on his SoundCloud account.
Back on an electronic tip, Vacant Shores are a two piece mixing dark, electronic atmospheres, haunting vocals, and glitchy beats.
K12 is a 23 year old musician who moved to Toulouse 2 years ago. His productions are heavy combinations of electro and dubstep. Take a listen below:
For something decidedly more chilled, check out Patrick Duvignacq. The six piece band mix together all kinds of instrumentation, from synths, banjos and saxophones, to Ribabs and Lotars, resulting in an eclectic mix of genres.
Taking the multi-cultural mix even further, is Ethnicalvibes, combining the sounds of sitars and tablas with drum machines and synths.
A post about France wouldn’t be complete without some French rap. Bim Bam Prod are a crew of rappers, dancers, DJ’s, beatmakers, graffiti artists, all working together.
Finally, we have Saåad, who makes dark, distorted drone music, full of atmosphere.