The first audio assignment that I chose to do was titled Song Story (***). For this assignment, the task was to pick a song and talk about what memory that song triggers when you hear it.

Picking a song was a little hard. I feel like every song triggers some kind of memory for me – whether it be positive or negative. For this assignment, I wanted the memory to be a positive one.

So I chose Wouldn’t It Be Nice by The Beach Boys. Here is my song story:

I made this song story with Audacity. I changed the volume of the song while I recorded my memory. I wanted the song to still play in the background while I was talking. What I ended up doing was recording the song {from my iTunes} on audacity first. I turned down the volume while I said what I was going to say in my head. Then, I recorded me saying my story. The timing was a little off, but I fixed it with the Audacity tools. Here is what my work looked like: