Under Water noises, could be used in a cheesy 1980’s music video intro

Google Chrome converted into a sound file sounds glorious; it makes a great alarm https://soundcloud.com/user-579284186/bad-audio

In 1982, Soviet nuclear bunkers had a computer error which falsely reported that US nuclear missiles were inbound, and Soviet authorities almost launched nukes at the USA. This story is about the first 30 seconds in the USA if Nuclear war had been acc...

Assignment: Sound Effects Story Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds. Another example (by a UMW student): http://ds106.us/wp-content/audio/audio_story.mp3 This was probably my least favorite audio assignment Read More

Assignment: Emotion Through Sound Try to convey a certain emotion, such as fear, stress, sadness, etc. by combing sound effects. They can be human sounds, such as crying with laughter in the background, to maybe express someone’s fears or being embarrassed, or you can get really artsy and try to convey an emotion by sound Read More

I have never made a beat before and it is quite hard, not gonna lie. After watching a couple YouTube tutorials on GarageBand beat-making, I decided to give it a shot. I played around with drums, trumpets, and... Read More

I used the audio with a common party song :))

This is the point of view from my friend who was almost kidnapped. A car chased them down and they called me during it. They were able to escape into an open hotel.

For my last assignment this week, I decided to do the One Question assignment. In this assignment, I was tasked to thinking of one open ended question and ask a few people their answers. I thought of a lot of different questions, but in the end I wanted to connect this back to the theme …

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For this assignment, I decided to once again use sounds from the vault and used a couple sounds to describe a typical friday for an […]

For this assignment, I decided to compare an iconic 80s song by the pop king Micheal Jackson, Beat It, where I took his original version […]

For my last assignment I decided to choose one called “Quote With A New Feeling”. For this assignment we were challenged to take a quote and pair it with a song in the background. I wanted to make this 80’s theme to fit our class. I chose the quote “To me, obligation is not love. …

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For another one of my picks out of the assignment bank I chose to do “A collection of your favorite sounds”. This one was super fun! I thought of a list of my favorite things and then what sounds I could use to portray them. I used a number of different free sound banks but …

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From the assignment bank I chose to do an assignment called “80’s Product Radio Commercial”. This assignment was easy for me because I had just learned how to use Audacity and could find sounds easily. I started by looking through a list of products that were popular during the 80’s. After picking the Pogo Ball …

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For this assignment, I used the sound editing program Audacity, which I have been familiar with for quite some time now. Being a dancer, I […]