Please give attribution to “KCAI SFX Library” and include the student-artists names where listed in the credits for your productions.
The KCAI SFX LIBRARY is a royalty-free Sound Effects Library created and maintained by the Sound Minor program for use in student and professional productions.
Our collection is available to the world through KCAI’s Jannes Library on-line Library Catalogs where the high quality wave-files can be auditioned and downloaded for use in your own AV productions through a Creative Commons license for free use with attribution.
The Kansas City Art Institute SFX Library was recorded and produced by students at the Kansas City Art Institute under the direction of Professor Dwight Frizzell, Sound Minor Head. Work-study assistant Tanner Williams updated and organized the current version, with notable contributions from Daniel D’Angelo, Barbara Magiera, Natalie Blue and Victoria Proctor. The sounds were created by students in KCAI’s SOUND classes: Audio-Vision, Advanced Audio-Vision, Sound Sculpture, Sound of Painting, Sound-Text, Intermodulations, Experimental Documentary and the Foundation workshops Actions, Image-Sound-Text and Perceptual Narratives. Contact: Dwight Frizzell dfrizzell@kcai.edu.
Noise, Water, Meat by 
Of Remixology by
A new theory of moral and aesthetic value for the age of remix, going beyond the usual debates over originality and appropriation. Remix--or the practice of recombining preexisting content--has proliferated across media both digital and analog. Fans celebrate it as a revolutionary new creative practice; critics characterize it as a lazy and cheap (and often illegal) recycling of other people’s work. In Of Remixology, David Gunkel argues that to understand remix, we need to change the terms of the debate. The two sides of the remix controversy, Gunkel contends, share certain underlying values--originality, innovation, artistic integrity. And each side seeks to protect these values from the threat that is represented by the other. In reevaluating these shared philosophical assumptions, Gunkel not only provides a new way to understand remix, he also offers an innovative theory of moral and aesthetic value for the twenty-first century. In a section called Premix, Gunkel examines the terminology of remix (including collage, sample, bootleg, and mashup) and its material preconditions, the technology of recording. In Remix, he takes on the distinction between original and copy; makes a case for repetition; and considers the question of authorship in a world of seemingly endless recompiled and repurposed content. Finally, in Postmix, Gunkel outlines a new theory of moral and aesthetic value that can accommodate remix and its cultural significance, remixing--or reconfiguring and recombining--traditional philosophical approaches in the process.
Uproot by
In 2001 Jace Clayton was an unknown DJ who recorded a three-turntable, sixty-minute mix and put it online to share with friends. Within weeks, Gold Teeth Thief became an international calling card, whisking Clayton away to play a nightclub in Zagreb, a gallery in Osaka, a former brothel in Sao Paolo, and the American Museum of Natural History. Just as the music world made its fitful, uncertain transition from analog to digital, Clayton found himself on the front lines of creative upheavals of art production in the twenty-first century globalized world.
Uproot is a guided tour of this newly-opened cultural space. With humor, insight, and expertise, Clayton illuminates the connections between a Congolese hotel band and the indie-rock scene, Mexican rodeo teens and Israeli techno, and Whitney Houston and the robotic voices is rural Moroccan song, and offers an unparalleled understanding of music in the digital age.
Language, Music, and the Brain by
A presentation of music and language within an integrative, embodied perspective of brain mechanisms for action, emotion, and social coordination.
This book explores the relationships between language, music, and the brain by pursuing four key themes and the crosstalk among them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behavior to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language. The book offers specially commissioned expositions of current research accessible both to experts across disciplines and to non-experts.
