Research Guides: Public Domain and Creative Commons Sources for Video, Audio, and Images: Audio Resources

Public Doman & Creative Commons Audio, Music, and Sound Effects

ccMixter
Thousands of hours of Creative Commons-licensed music, searchable by genre, instrument, and type of CC license.
Freesound
Collaborative collection of around 700,000 free sounds.
Incompetech
A collection of Creative Commons licensed music by American composer Kevin MacLeod.
Oxy Special Collections on SoundCloud
Preview hundreds of hours of digitized audio recordings of lectures, speeches, and music from the Occidental College Archives. Contact specialcollections@oxy.edu for audio files and information on using these recordings in your project.