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[Conor Curran <conor.curran@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark, Jim

Yes I am certainly interested. There has been some discussion recently 
at Canonical about this whole area. I know Michael Forrest (cc'd) is 
particularly interested in revamping the whole sound aspect. To date 
there has been no work to improve this area.

I really think the new sound themes really need to augment the new 
visual designs as opposed to just accompanying it. Each sound theme 
should maybe then be coupled to each visual theme ? With this in mind 
Michael and I should prepare a brief for the would be sound designers to 
follow.

When do you hope to start this process ?

Conor

On 31/03/10 23:47, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 31/03/10 12:33, Jim Rorie wrote:
>    
> > These look great.
> >
> > I proposed a while back that perhaps freesound.org or kompoz.com should
> > be contacted for community creation of new sound themes.  These are of
> > particular importance in accessibility where they provide sound cues for
> > important events.  Has any effort been made to pursue an updated sound
> > theme?
> >
> > I contacted them earlier and they seemed to be interested.  But it would
> > need a blessing from Canonical to get it off the ground.
> >
> >      
> I think Conor would be interested in this. I would definitely be
> supportive of running a sound theme competition along the lines of the
> wallpaper competition, and I suspect Conor knows something about the
> subject :-)
>
> Mark
>
>    


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Conor Curran
Desktop Architect Sound Engineer
Desktop Experience team
Canonical Ltd
Email: conor.curran@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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