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HEB2 sound banks

Dear fellow musicians.
[This message in brief: An invitation for you to use a unique sound bank we created from field recordings in H2 area of Hebron; A  short description of the HEB2 project; A request from you to contribute some of your talent]
Armed with a portable digital recorder, a laptop with a mobile audio interface and some microphones, we spent one of our recent weekends in Hebron at the HEB2 house, an abandoned Palestinian home turned community television station. After lots of editing and sorting, we uploaded the resulting sound files so they are now available to all. In the uploaded libraries you will find various interesting and diverse recordings of Hebron’s crazy ambiance: from various muezeen prayers to eccentric settlers singing in Arabic, from battles over audio dominance near the Tomb of Patriarchs to the hollow sounds of empty neighbourhoods. You will also find a bank of 250 percussive “drum” sounds — edited files of various clicks, cracks and booms to arm your drum machines with, or use in any other way.
Besides the fact that we look forward to sharing these files, as it was a very powerful experience for us to collect these sounds, there’s at least one specific purpose for this project: this field work documentation was collected with the intention to become the raw material for various little sound works that we’d like to contribute to the HEB2 project. We’re talking about short audio-clips/sound-bites/sfx (call it what you want!), that will be used as theme elements in the station’s broadcasts. Very short sound snippets that you can make in 5 minutes and send back to us. Of course, you are also welcome to create musical and sonic works in every other format or length, but for us, at the moment, this is the main focus.
HEB2, for those unfamiliar, is an ongoing documentary project in the form of a community television channel based in Hebron, West Bank. Periodically broadcasting live over the internet, HEB2 depicts daily life in the militarized, Israeli-controlled sector of the city known as ‘H2’. Involving residents as not only film-subjects but filmmakers, HEB2 is part home movie, part cinema verité, and part surveillance camera.
Looking further ahead, we’d like to extend an invitation for longer, more substantive collaborations between musicians and HEB2: composing longer thematic pieces for the soundtrack, recording at the HEB2 station, live performances in Hebron, etc. Those curious and interested should contact us, and if you’re in the area – come down for a cup of tea.

May 23, 2009

Dear fellow musicians.

[This message in brief: An invitation for you to use a unique sound bank we created from field recordings in H2 area of Hebron; A  short description of the HEB2 project; A request from you to contribute some of your talent]

Armed with a portable digital recorder, a laptop with a mobile audio interface and some microphones, we spent one of our recent weekends in Hebron at the HEB2 house, an abandoned Palestinian home turned community television station. After lots of editing and sorting, we uploaded the resulting sound files so they are now available to all. In the uploaded libraries you will find various interesting and diverse recordings of Hebron’s crazy ambiance: from various muezeen prayers to eccentric settlers singing in Arabic, from battles over audio dominance near the Tomb of Patriarchs to the hollow sounds of empty neighbourhoods. You will also find a bank of 250 percussive “drum” sounds — edited files of various clicks, cracks and booms to arm your drum machines with, or use in any other way.

Besides the fact that we look forward to sharing these files, as it was a very powerful experience for us to collect these sounds, there’s at least one specific purpose for this project: this field work documentation was collected with the intention to become the raw material for various little sound works that we’d like to contribute to the HEB2 project. We’re talking about short audio-clips/sound-bites/sfx (call it what you want!), that will be used as theme elements in the station’s broadcasts. Very short sound snippets that you can make in 5 minutes and send back to us. Of course, you are also welcome to create musical and sonic works in every other format or length, but for us, at the moment, this is the main focus.

HEB2, for those unfamiliar, is an ongoing documentary project in the form of a community television channel based in Hebron, West Bank. Periodically broadcasting live over the internet, HEB2 depicts daily life in the militarized, Israeli-controlled sector of the city known as ‘H2’. Involving residents as not only film-subjects but filmmakers, HEB2 is part home movie, part cinema verité, and part surveillance camera.

Looking further ahead, we’d like to extend an invitation for longer, more substantive collaborations between musicians and HEB2: composing longer thematic pieces for the soundtrack, recording at the HEB2 station, live performances in Hebron, etc. Those curious and interested should contact us, and if you’re in the area – come down for a cup of tea.

HEB2

HEB2 sound banks

*BONUS* HEB2 B-roll reel, to give you some inspiring visuals from H2 Hebron

Please feel free to contact us and forward this message.

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Thanks,

Micha’el Zupraner, Eran Sachs and Aviad Albert

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