Panagiota Anastasopoulou (allholy)
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This live coding performance titled Ιstoríes celebrates Freesound’s 20th anniversary, highlighting the platform’s impact on sound sharing and creativity. Using SuperCollider, we retrieve and manipulate sounds from Freesound's heterogeneous collection of over 650,000 user-uploaded audio files in real time, creating an improvised composition that reflects the diversity and unpredictability of the database. The performance navigates Freesound’s sonic landscape through the Broad Sound Taxonomy, which categorizes sounds into semantic-based classes. By embracing the dynamic nature of sound retrieval and remixing, this performance transforms Freesound into a live instrument. It honors the platform’s collaborative spirit and open-source ethos while demonstrating the platform’s role in fostering innovation within the live coding and sound art communities.