SoundCloud

English

Etymology

From the company name SoundCloud, an audio streaming service founded in 2007, from sound +‎ cloud (“the Internet; cloud computing”).

Pronunciation

Audio (US): (file)

Verb

SoundCloud (third-person singular simple present SoundClouds, present participle SoundClouding, simple past and past participle SoundClouded)

(informal, uncommon) To use, or upload music to, the music streaming service SoundCloud.
- 2014 October 14, Entertainment Feature Service, “Instant Attraction”, in The Indian Express‎^[1]:
  While there aren't any 'big' international names to speak of, it's time to start Soundclouding^[sic] music by dream pop Parisian producer Dream Koala.
- 2015 November 9, Gavin Allen, “Swn Festival 2015: 5 things we learned watching Britain's biggest orgy of brand new music”, in Daily Mirror‎^[2]:
  Playing at 3pm on Saturday when the crowds were either shedding their hangovers or at other gigs, their sparsely attended gig at Clwb Ifor Bach would have affected other bands but instead they put on a stunning performance. Two EP's in, the Rhyl garage rockers are deffo an act worth Soundclouding.^[sic]
- 2016, Ari Herstand, How To Make It in the New Music Business, Boni & Liveright, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
  She's not an extrovert who goes to shows and makes connections with everyone in the room. That's not her strength. But she's a master at the Internet. Through her ninja SoundClouding, she teamed up with DJs from around the globe to remix her songs and post (or repost) to their followers.
- 2019 January 22, Peter Bradshaw, “Oscar nominations 2019: Roma and The Favourite deserve acclaim, but no female directors is woeful”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:
  It is of course — I admit it — highly implausible that Lady Gaga’s character should be so against taking pictures of celebs on mobile phones; in the real world, an ambitious singer-songwriter like her would be selfie-ing, Instagramming, SoundClouding etc non-stop.
- 2020, Julianne Pederson, “Metamodernism in Fashion and Style Practice: Authorship and the Consumer”, in Barbara Brownie, Johannes Reponen, Laura Pettican, editor, Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 123:
  Blogging, microblogging, vlogging, Polyvoring, liking, Pinteresting, Tumbling, Stumbling, hauling, Soundclouding,^[sic] Tweeting, […] interfacing, interlocutory presence and absence, and the allatonceness this transience all produces and inoculates us to is what metamodernism can best be described as. It is the context of our most current situation and is an adaptation to being 'hyperreal.'

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