John Cage is a musician and his work 4’33 is one of the most popular and misunderstood pieces that he has ever created. In the article that I read it discusses his composition 4’33 and how and why it was created. Cage describes his thought process and how he feels about the controversial piece. The […]

This audio assignment was about looking on your Facebook or twitter and talk about what the conversations were about. I decided to look at the tweets from my birthday because I wanted to go out to dave and busters but a lot of my friends wanted to stay home and watch a tv show called […]

I interviewed an English Professor in the Writing Center about 9/11. I edited the interview to make sure it was 30 seconds. I got 2 minutes worth of footage that needed to be chopped down  which was hard to do because it was a lot of good information that she was talking about with 9/11.

Blog #3   John Cage is a well-known composer that changed the way music was listened to during the 1960s.  This man created a piece of work called 4’33, which he sat on stage sitting for four and a half minutes in pure silence. John Cage perception of silence is that silence is music as […]

For this assignment, I was tasked with finding a text based conversation and recording it. I ventured to Youtube to find the cream of the crop and I was not disappointed. I apologize for my monotone voice but speaking in other voices made me feel a bit uncomfortable. In regards to my process, I recorded […]

Blog #1   The goal of this project ,Quiet American, is to make you experience a different world other than your own. New sounds, different ways of hearing things and just taking in new features from unfamiliar territory are some of the things this project wants to enlighten people about. I think this project is […]

For this assignment, we were tasked with recording several familiar noises. Without the visual aids, many of these sounds can be hard to pin down. I chose to pick several household noises so that should narrow it down for you guys! In regards to my process, I recorded several noises on my iphone and then […]

With this project, I wanted to capture the essence of New York. I wanted to give you what New York is, by only using the everyday sounds that we endure everyday in the city. From, cars driving by, to people talking and scurrying to get to their destination, this project is meant for the listener […]

This article talks about 4’33 which is a musical piece where John Cage got on stage and did nothing, but sit in front of a piano for 4 minute and 30 seconds. And for that 4 minutes and 30 seconds there was nothing but silence from both Cage and his audience. John Cage is a […]

This article is basically about John Cage's 4'33" piece and all the possibilities of perhaps why it was created. It was broken down into an explanation of questions such as: In what sense was it a composition? Is it a hoax? A joke? A bit a Dada? A piece of theatre? A thought experiment? An […]

    For my DS106 assignments I decided to reverse a song which wasn’t hard to do. I used Audacity to reverse the song by using the reversed tool. I honestly thought it would kind of be hard but after re- familiarizing myself with Audacity it wasn’t too bad to figure out.  The reversed song […]

Cory Arcangel is interviewing her former professor and friend of 10 years, Pauline Oliveros. In this interview, Cory praises Pauline for her teaching techniques and unique style. Pauline talks about her teaching methods and how they haven't changed, her deep listening techniques, new technology, and her band just to name a few things. Pauline Oliveros […]

I did the Ds 106 reverse option. The first thing that I did was pick a song that I wanted to reverse. When I found the song that i wanted from youtube I converted it into an mp3 file. Then I upload the song into audacity as a stereo track. Then, I highlighted and reversed […]

Here is my reversed track. I decided to use audacity to reverse the track after I downloaded it from youtube because it was the fastest at the time. I created one stereo track and imported the song. I then selected the wave and processed the inverse function. Now that my track was paying backwards I […]

Here is a recording of some everyday sounds that I thought would be interesting for this project. These sounds are except sounds. I walked down the block recording every sound and conversation I heard. Busses. cars, trucks, manholes and so forth. I arranged these sounds to make a composition that sort of tells a story […]

For this assignment I basically had to pretend I was at Mcdonald’s ordering something off their menu. I had to do this in any accent of my choice and my order had to be complicated. I chose to do a British accent because I thought it would have been the easiest one. For this assignment […]

In the Introduction it stated , ” My goal with Quiet American is to sketch in sound the experience of being in an unfamiliar place. The work of this site is not a replacement for travel. But if you are willing to listen, you may be transported.” The producers goal is to give his listeners an […]

Pauline Oliveros was inteviewed by a friend and fromer student Cory Arcangel who attended her class in at Oberlin in 1999. During the interview Pauline didnt only talk about herself but she also talked a lot about the way she ran her classes, technology and the people who attended her classes. She explained the purpose […]

The producers goal with this project is create and give people exposure to places they probably never been to through sound. I think this project is really interesting because it gives you a chance to expierence sounds of things you probably dont hear on a regular basis. And because the recordings are from another country […]

The john cage article is about an american composer, named John cage.He produced a famous piece “4’33″ in 1952 that took him four and half years to make.It took cage so long to make this piece because he thought people would think he was making a joke.Cage, in the past produced many other musical pieces, […]

For this assignment, I picked Greatest Hits Storytelling ,  it requires you to pick an artist and make a story on their songs. It has to be at least 5 minutes long, and I picked one of my favorite artist Sia. The story is about someone who has been through trails and looks at the […]

What is sound? How can it be defined? Sound is produced by continuous and regular vibrations, as opposed to noise. Sound is little footsteps approaching you, or rain falling and hitting against your window. When we sleep at night we hear the sound of silence. Which is probably the most beautiful sound ever! But there […]

For the class assignment for week 3 we had to interview someone and ask them about September 11 and their experience or what were they thinking about when the events were occurring. I ended up asking a York College faculty member, he actually did not want to release his name. He did share his thoughts […]

Kevin and I walked around on Jamaica Ave and interview people and asked them there favorite superpowers  

Here’s my groups recording. A play prewritten for us to perform. Wess, Giovanni and Koran.

Our group walked to Jamaica Avenue to ask random people two different questions. We got a variety of interesting answers. The end result was a success. We used the zoom recorder due to technical difficulties. Our only challenges were when people ignored us, but we dealt with that by just asking more and more people. […]

   Rosmady,Brenda,and I decided to do Vox pop. We asked 30 people around and outside the school,what were their favorite color and seasons.Some people were shy and others were very excited to participate.When putting the audio into protools it was fairly easy to edit the audio because it was similar to audacity.We added fades throughout […]

Our group did a reality tv show starring Ashley Tiffaney. We used the tascam recorder and wireless lavaier mic. Jessica T. was the sound person checking audio levels and Keanna made sure images were captured accurately with the audio. Koran helped edit and combine audio with music. The group spilt into teams to edit pictures […]

Here is a Twilight and Hunger Games movie mashup I created on Audacity. I downloaded some clips from Youtube that sounded like parts I would put together as a conversation between Katniss Everdeen and Edward Cullen. This is a love story between the beautiful Katniss Everdeen and the sparkling Edward Cullen. Katniss isn’t interested in […]

The sound that I pick was the escalator. I picked this sound because it was just one continuous, repetitive sound. The tascam with omni speakers picked I used for this sound. It was the only mic left.