Weekly Summary Highlight of the week: While I’m puttering away on a Saturday afternoon, polishing an audio assignment for the week, I get this Tweet: How cool is that?  I quickly fumbled to get into ds106 Radio to listen to a charming conversation between two delightful people whose accents tell me they’re from “across the […]

I was bumping up against the Dark Side all week, so here’s my ds106 Radio bumper audio assignment:   Another Audacity project, this time adding a track, and using the Effects >> Fade Out to accommodate the second track to be heard. I used the built-in voice modulator in my headset/mic to get a lower […]

Lunch with Groom was Amazing. I enjoyed doing the Audio Assignments, I liked that I could pick which Assignments that I water to do. I would say my favorite Assignment for Audio would have to be the 911 Call, I had a lot of fun doing that.   I did have a little trouble uploading one of my […]

Brainstorming for Wire 106 Radio I have to admit that I’m getting used to working with GIMP. It’s a really fun program! I made the logo below for Wire 106 Radio using GIMP, images downloaded from the web, and fonts downloaded from DaFont. My “schedule” for the segments that would…

Its so different to just listen to an episode…#wire106 — John Meadows (@Physx28) September 17, 2014 Week four of Wire 106 was dedicated to listening to audio. Given that, Paul Bond suggested we load three episodes of season 2 of The Wire that we assigned this week (i.e., 3, … Continue reading →

I have to say this was one of the more difficult weeks strictly because I don’t like recording and hearing myself. The daily creates were fun as usual but the audio assignment bank was really difficult for me. I was able to find a couple that allowed me to remix music but most were based […]

Week 4 could have gone better for me but it could have been worse so I will refrain from saying that this week was my least favorite…at least for now. With my love of music I was completely excited about … Continue reading →

Alrighty, here we are at the end of another week. Let us start this out on a good note. The Wire (Unfortunately I watched all the episode back to back so it all just merges together) Now everything is beginning to pick up. I am beginning to see where the story is going to center […]

As real as The Wire feels, it’s still a tv show made for entertainment. My idea for a radio show is to take some scenes from the entire series that you believe is too hollywood and imagine how the actual scene would play out in real life.

One audio assignment that really stood out to me was the So and So’s Greatests Hits. I immediately thought of different bands that I could possibly do for this one and my mind jumped to Imagine Dragons. Imagine Dragons is one of my favorite bands and I thought this would be pretty easy to do.…

This week was another good week for me in ds106. I’m really enjoying all of the assignments and the Daily Creates. Everything that we get to do is so creative

Wowee! The weekly summary post is coming in later than usual today- I guess that’s what I get for going home to have my own version of a “family weekend.” Not one, but TWO cars that I drove broke down this… Continue Reading →

  So… this is rain, from my voice. I have to admit, I did this about 7 times before I got it to where I wanted it. I had my fan on in the background and began to make a somewhat watery sound with my mouth (you know how rain sounds). I did not get […]

Well I never thought the day would come where I finish the assignments for ds106 early, but here we are! This week was a lot of work but I really enjoyed it! Learning how to use Audacity was a struggle at first. The only time I had used Audacity before was to do recordings for […]

When I was still in the commuting world, I used to listen to quite a bit of talk radio. Don & Mike and Howard Stern were on in my car on a daily basis. I even went on the Don … Continue reading →

  This was an interesting one to see posted. I had to stop and think about something interesting in my life that was worth sharing. Of course, being in college, I reflected back to entering college. Fortunately, coming up with the audio was simple since it was just speech. As for the story, it is […]

For this AudioAssignment, I had to add music to a video. I took a video of my fish swimming around in the tank. I then used movie maker to create the actual movie. I found the songs on YouTube and downloaded the audio. I then used Audacity to trim the songs and then inserted them […]

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Sound is like the offensive line of television and movies – without sound, you’ll be sacked for sure but yet sound is rarely given the props it deserves. Jen Ralston is a Hall of Fame offensive lineman of sound without … Continue reading →

Credits to sounds from: jmbphilmes – www.freesound.org/people/jmbphilmes/sounds/200273/ Yuval – www.freesound.org/people/Yuval/sounds/205817/ vhlam – www.freesound.org/people/vhlam/sounds/203171/ joedeshon – www.freesound.org/people/joedeshon/sounds/117416/ mungous – www.freesound.org/people/mungous/sounds/62878/ Here was my first attempt at creating a sound story. If you can guess the sounds, give yourself a pat on the back! Creating this was much different than anything I have ever made before. I […]

The morning sounds of a really good java being made: Credits to the following folks whose Freesound files were used in the making of this brew: Beans pouring: juskiddink Beans grinding: madumcc Coffee brewing: jpkweli Coffee pouring: superex1110 Coffee stirring: keweldog Java slurping: fille1000 Technique: Pretty simple cut and paste using Audacity.  I added them […]

The interview with Jennifer Ralston was extremely interesting! She made me realize how much sound truly does matter. The detail you have to go into just for sounds is astonishing. I never would have guessed any of the things she...
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This AudioAssignment was to read aloud a quote of the day. This quote comes from the movie, “The Grand Marigold Hotel.” My grandfather saw the movie when it first came out and shares that quote with me often. I think it is a great quote!

From the AudioAssignment Reverse Audio Quiz. I went through many songs before choosing this one. Once I heard it, I ended up really liking it! I thought it sounded like an Italian love song which is funny because this song is sort of a love song. I don’t know that I would be able to guess […]

I was interested in the fifth episode of season 2 because of Stringer Bell and his relationship with D’Angelo. The thing I found interesting was how much Stringer was there

The thing that most interested me about episode 4 of season 2 was D’Angelo and what he told his uncle. Telling Avon that he didn’t want to have anything to

The thing that interested me he most about episode 3 was McNulty and his pride. When McNulty visited the morgue and found out all of that information about the girls

I purposefully made this my last post (before my weekly summary post, that is) for this week because I really wanted to spend time to think about this final project. From what I’ve gathered, we’re supposed to (eventually) create a… Continue Reading →

For my final audio assignment I decided to do the 911 call. I mashed up a 911 disptacher video, a 3 year old arguing with his mom, and a grandma

I really enjoyed the interview with Jen Ralston. The first point that was made by both Professor Groom and Jen was that there is so much more to the show