For this in class project we had to interview a classmate and get enough audio to put together a good story. My partner and I got so engaged in her story we ended up speaking for about a half hour. With so much to her story it took a lot of cutting down to get […]

In this article Chenjerai Kumanyika speaks on the current voice of public radio, the white “warm coffee voice”, as he calls it, and his issues with it. As a black man with a “non-traditional” public radio vernacular he discusses his tendency to feel the need to switch his natural voice to suit the voice of public […]

Interview with Pauline Oliveros In this interview, Pauline Oliveros talks about his life and experiences as he continues with his work. How he started a band and how “Deep Listening” became popular through out the years. Pauline Oliveros is an American composer who has great amount of experience with education, improvisation, and meditation. He also […]

As an avid listener of This American Life, I love the idea of choosing a topic and sharing a story to depict it. This story took on the topic of doubt by following a man with shaken religious faith and his engagement that was shaken due to different fundamental beliefs. While I feel the story […]

This was originally a 30 minute recording, however, it was cut down into a clean 2 minute edit.

  We were assigned to use 3 different type of Microphones, Shot Gun, Lava Mic, Dynamic, So we went on campus trying each and every Mic. Unfortunately a lot of the microphones didn’t work but that’s the Project that I came up with, please check it out and give me your comments. Thank you  

  I interviewed Whitney, I asked her about her childhood and her parents’s relationship, below was her answer. I chose that part of the interview, because parents’s relationship influence their children whether in a good way or in a bad way.. she basically was explaining how relationship should work and how that there should be […]

The producer says the goal of The Quiet American was to manipulate the sounds he hears and records but “naive ears” rarely listen too. I agree on some degree that many times people tune out many of the noises around them and it kind of becomes a quiet but loud background noise. I listened to […]

This week we had to interview a classmate for ten minutes and use that audio to edit a one to two minute clip telling a story. I interviewed Johnathan mostly about women and his experience with an ex girlfriend and well it sounds like hes bruised and jaded. (Sorry J!) Maybe he needs to rethink […]

Here are the left and right sounds of the interview Romario and I did. For some reason, the sound separated into the 2 sounds. Anyway, we were able to talk and have fun with the questions that were asked and the way the answers came out. The content you hear is where my family is […]

This interview was going to feature sound clips recorded from the shotgun mic, the lavalier mic, and then dynamic mic. However, due to some extensive technical difficulties we were only able to salvage fragments of our sessions with the dynamic mic. En...

Today, we were testing out some new equipment. We tested out the microphones known as the “Dynamic” microphone and the “Lavalier” microphone. We took both microphones and recorded random people around the school. With the Lavalier microphone, we walked around and had Romario greet and and have conversations with the people. Their expressions were comedic […]

Today in class I worked with a group of 2 other people on a sound project. We were asked to go around campus with a dynamic microphone and interview people, so we could get a feel for recording and editing. It was a little fustrating because some our audio never got recorded but we still […]

While recording we had no real issues with the dynamic mic after we initially got it to work, the interviews that we used turned out great. We learned that the handling of the equipment was a little tedious, was, there were wires hanging everywhere. At...

For this project we experimented with a dynamic mic creating a quick vox pop with a question of our choosing. We decided to ask people how they felt about Kanye West’s latest rant at the Grammys knowing we’d get a lot of audio to work with. We got a little more than we bargained for. Our […]

Project 2 BY CALYE, KARINA & ROMARIO. We were assigned the task of using 3 different types of microphones (Dynamic, Shotgun and Wired) to record snippets of audio and then mix and mash them into a solid 30 second preview. it was very awkward at first to see everyone pass us by and wondering what […]

Janai Senior Today we were given a task to record with different types of microphones. For this my group used a dynamic microphone and also a Shotgun microphone. The dynamic microphone was used to record an interview with two York College students. This interview is about the recent incident at the Grammy’s , where Kanye […]

  This assignment was a bit frustrating for me personally. I had to switch groups due to technical difficulties. However, I learned a whole lot more about sound and using Pro Tools. At first it took me a while to use to pro tools but once I got the hang of it everything fell into […]

So today Marissa and I used a dynamic microphone and a shot gun microphone.  we basically asked people what their favorite movie was and why? we recorded them using the dynamic microphone which was pretty simplistic. we then switched to the shot gun mic and that was able to capture a more direct focus sound […]

Okay, so Imani and I worked with the dynamic microphone first. We decided to ask people to tell us about their favorite movies. That was surprisingly a harder question for people then we had anticipated. (Some people said they didn’t have a favorite movie. Who doesn’t have a favorite movie? ANYWAYS)   I realized when […]

Worth: 20 points Due: February 11, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. Work in groups of 2 or 3 to complete all three of these stations. Then follow the instructions below to post to the class blog. STATION #1: DYNAMIC MICROPHONES Use a dynamic microphone to record a VOX POP. Choose an open ended question and ask […]

PROJECT 1 WAVE MATCH BY - ROMARIO & CALYE Our project was a bit challenging after to be modest, 20+ attempts and troubleshoots with temptations of cutting it up we finally arrived at our final product. We basically did a combination of our own vocals as well as a popular dancehall instrumental entitlted “faithful riddim” […]

    Audio:   Whitney Hutson, Imani Casimir, and Karina Martinez We played “Classic” by MKTO and adjusted the volume to create a similar picture by following the times that were shown in the original image. We had difficulty recording while trying to figure out how high to turn the volume up to get the […]

Janai Senior, Ra-Shawn Barino For this assignment we were given a picture of the waveform of a sound. We were to replicate this waveform by recording our own, while trying to match up the waves as close as possible. We approached it by recording a song by JCole. It was difficult because we had no […]

After many trials me and Allyson finally came up with something that works.

Tyrone Gayle and Edd Paul. We did this assignment about 2 times, the first time we did it the sound was too distorted because we did not adjust the dial on the recorder. The second time we adjusted both the volume of the music playing on the phone and the dial on the side of […]

As you all know the picture above is what we had to mimic.  First Marissa and I observed the waves of the audio and the start and stop times of distinct sound wave changes. Then we correlated our audio to try and match the changes in the photo. We both increased and decreased the sound […]

Due: 5:00 p.m., Feb 4 20 points Log in to Sounds Like Waves: http://soundslikewaves.dewlines.org/wp-admin/ Instructions: 1. Study the image of this recording. Make notes! 2. In small groups record an audio track that LOOKS just like this one. It must be between 3:00 – 3:20 min. 3. Import it into Pro Tools. How does it look? […]

  I enjoy tropical rainfall, because it allows a very active and upbeat individual such as myself to feel a moment of inner peace.  This also allows me to meditate. The rainfall gives me a greater appreciation of nature and life in general.

personally my favorite sounds come from a sound system, is one of from a sound system. I am a bedroom Dj, and loud music excites me