About

Learning alone is a call without a response.

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Come here instead.
Found Sound Commons is a place to
learn, teach, and find each other.
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Inside the Commons

Learn

Masterclasses, Workshops and Labs taught live by working artists.

What do you want to learn?
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Community

Members in more than 80 countries, and the rooms where we actually talk to each other.

Introduce Yourselfopen to all
New Releasesopen to all
Gear & Toolsopen to all
Seen Anything Good Lately?open to all
Every course gets its own boardmembers only

Boards are spaces to discuss topics or classes, even after the end.

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Discover

What the community keeps: readings, tools, techniques, recordings. Hand-kept entries, not a feed.

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Origin

Fifteen years of artists finding each other

The Commons grows out of Found Sound Nation: residencies, exchanges, and collaborations with musicians across borders, languages, and traditions. Projects ended. Relationships didn’t.

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Artists of all kinds, from everywhere. Come to learn. Stay for the community.

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