Hi Everyone,
My girlfriend and I are due to have our first child on December 19th. (!!!) We thought it would be cool to collect as many audio recordings from as many different locations around the world as possible recorded on the day our kid cometh. Something s/he can look back on in 20 years to hear the sound of the world on the day they arrived in it. You don't need to be a recording engineer and it doesn't need to be anything magical ā€” it can be anything at all. The sounds from your porch or the TV in your room or your trip to work or your brother's soccer game or sweetheart's snoring or whatevers. We'd actually prefer it to be more 'day in the life' than 'this really interesting sounding thing near my house' but whatever works.
ANY recording device will do. Video camera, cell phone, tape recorder, computer mic... anything! If you're unsure if something will work, please ask. We can help.
So then, two things:
1) If this sounds interesting and you'd like to be a part of it, please visit a site we threw up and sign up to be notified via email and/or phone text message on the day the kid actually shows up: http://soundofthatday.com/ We wont use your info for anything at all except that. I don't think we'll really be in a place to post to a forum on the big day. This'll let us send out a single email/text to all who signed up. You can also get a few more details about the project there. The skinny is: Any sound, any length, any format. Easy. When it's all done, the site will host them all so everyone can check out what the day sounded like.
2) Tell other people! This is very much a 'more the merrier' sort of project.
ANY questions, please ask.
Thank you!
Will
PS. Sorry for the very off-topic post. It will be hosted on a website entirely made with webuilder. ;)