Touch First by Audio Safety Resource Package

The Audio Safety Resource Package (ASRP) series has been assembled to supply all people who have found themselves suddenly with the resources to make music (free software, time, etc.), but are lacking access to sounds that inspire them; sounds that they have not yet imagined. In four installments, the ASRP series delivers sounds from a variety of secret and rare sources. These are sounds that are made in performance, in meditation, in movement, in a room, in a machine, in nature. Each package is built around a theme, the sounds themselves might not be obviously connected, but their sources are.

No sound is labeled, no sound is made for any one key, tempo, genre, or context. The sounds are not perfect, they contain artifacts and noise. I hope that beautiful and terrible music can be made with these sounds; accidents and mistakes.

The sounds of Touch First were created with common, household instruments as a means of highlighting the latent–but under-recognized–connection between touching and hearing. The sources do not necessarily require human hands to make sound, but human touch reveals itself through textures and timbres. Human touch is also evident in the manipulation of the recording format: analog tape. The pervasive hiss and scorched tape saturation suggests a non-mechanical imperfection; the sounds of audio as it slows down after pressing the fast-forward then play buttons remind the user that these sounds are a recording of a recording. These sounds are strings, skins, and horns all amplified beyond capacity. They should inspire textures and destruction.

The ASRP series is pay what you can. 50% of the proceeds of each individual package goes to the artist who designed the corresponding package’s visual accompaniments.

This Page serves as a resource for those who are looking for new sounds to create new musics. Download these sounds and use them to make new sounds.

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