Your Phone is Ringing!!!
The purpose of this assignment was to create a cell phone ringtone that I would actually use. Like most people,…
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Where I’d Rather Be
I choose to do this visual assignment Create A Place, because I could really use a vacation right about now.… -
We will rock you for 2 stars!
Everyone knows Queen’s “We Will Rock You”. For this assignment, remake the famous beat the most creative way that you can. -
Tongue Twister for 3 stars!
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Humming Away for 2 stars!
For 2 stars I chose to hum a song that I enjoy listening too and see if you all could decipher it. Here is my sound cloud link: Here is the YouTube link to the song: Thank you for reading my blog. XOXODanielle Erika -
Audio Assignments for 10 Stars!
Humming Away for 2 stars! Tell A Story! Tongue Twister for 3 stars! We will rock you for 2 stars! -
“They have a Cave Troll”
Directions: ” Take one of your favorite movies or scene from a movie and tell the story using sound effects! There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects! Record your own sounds, use audacity, or use websites that have pre-recorded sounds for you to... -
Where am I?
Directions: ” For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org “ Behind the Story: Narrating the Process: -
Everyday Sound Effects
My everyday sound effects project! I used the BBC sound effects archive and Audacity to create. -
Guess This Movie!
For this assignment I attempted to recreate the truck chase scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. I attempted to… -
The Daily Remix
I created this sound bit with Audacity. I recorded myself using the sink, throwing something away, putting something in the toaster, and microwaving something. Then I completely distorted it and created an echo. Let me know if you can tell what&... -
Democratic Party Speech
For this assignment I manipulated a speech from the democratic party in 1919. I added crowds cheering, changed the pitch and added a duplicate clip that reversed the pitch on top. I used audacity to create this, and I downloaded the clip from Wi... -
they pulled the trigger!
This assignment was from a website called Frequency2156 where you are tasked to create a an apocalypse message from the year 2156. Since this class is based around the 80’s I made it a nuclear apocalypse, because everyone in the 80’s were definitely slight worried about nuclear death. The only problem I ran across was … Continue reading "they pulled the trigger!" -
Sick Beat
Check out my sick beat project that I created with Garage Band for Mac on Soundcloud! -
Death from Above
In an attempt to get better at audio storytelling I dug deep to tell a story using only noises, instead of verbal communication. This one for me was by far the most difficult assignment of the week, but it ended up being fun once I started piecing it all together. With everything else being so… -
Door to Jurassic Park
In another instant classic audio assignment, the goal is to take a simple everyday noise and make it not so “simple” and “everyday”. My mind couldn’t really grasp both sides at once for something that could turn into something else, so I left it up to fate. I look up some simple sounds you may… -
Not the Sickest Beat in the World, Just a Tribute
For this fun little audio assignment, the task was to create a sick beats to end all sick beats. I spent a lot of time just trying to figure out where to even start. I’m not much of a musically minded person, so I felt like a log adrift until I remembered that the sickest… -
Smoothest Bumper You Heard Today
One mission, one task, create the best DS106 radio show bumper possible. Guess what, mission accomplished. For some reason whenever I think of radio voice transitions, all I can imagine is that old school smooth jazz cliche. Obviously that led to my only option of using that style for my own bumper. I started recording… -
You Can Call Me TED
As an audio assignment, today I was tasked with recording myself saying the first few paragraphs of Try something new for 30 days – Matt Cutts. The goal was to focus on how I’m saying my words, such as pronunciation, inflection, pausing, and so on. Check me out. Maybe next time you hear this wonderful… -
New Thing I’m Bad At
I learned today that humming skills seem to correlate with singing skills, which means that I am terrible at humming. For this audio assignment I had to take a song that gets stuck in my head and record myself humming it. To keep with the 80’s theme, I picked the 80’s song that gets stuck… -
Telephone Conversation With Me
by @MonicaG71488057 September 27, 2019“So far this semester, he has been absent 9 times. 9 times? 9 TIMES…” For my telephone conversation assignment, I decided to recreate one of my favorite scenes from popular 1980’s movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off! I had to watch this scene so many times to recreate it that this scene is stuck playing in … -
Sweet Dreams vs Take On Me
For this assignment I mixed a slow version of Sweet Dreams and a fast version of Take On Me together. I created to voice memos and then combined them into GarageBand. Then, I created an iTunes file to upload into SoundCloud. #AudioAssignments... -
Radio Bumper
by @madelinewelsh2 September 27, 2019My radio bumper was fun, but it didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted. I guess some more experimenting with Audacity is needed. I had to do a lot of searching for the background music and my voice is maybe too quiet, but overall it isn’t too bad. It was a fun little project and ... Read moreRadio Bumper -
What’s this 80s Song?
I found a 80s song on Youtube and speed up with the settings in Youtube. I then did about a 30 second voice memo. I transferred this voice memo into GarageBand. Then, I made it a iTune file I could upload on SoundCloud. Can you guess this 80s so... -
Is thickness the key to basketball success?
This assignment I created a ted talk for a very pressing matter for the future of basketball. If this happened to be a live ted talk this would be my supplemental image. -
My Daily Remix
For this assignment I went around my apartment creating a voice memo of different sounds. The five different sounds I found were; AC, Keurig, Running Water, Glasses, and a Cat Toy. I combined all these sounds into GarageBand then made my final p... -
Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?
This assignment I tried to make an old beat up car sound like it can cross through multidimensional worm holes. The sound I made still sounds a little bit like a car starting, but I tried to give it as much of a metallic feeling. When the song fades out it sort of reminds me … Continue reading "Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?" -
Walk in the Woods Story
I created this soundscape in GarageBand. I got all the sound effects from http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk. I combined and cut five different sound effects to create a walk in the woods. Once I finished and liked it, I uploaded it into iTunes. The... -
Sound Effects Story
by @MonicaG71488057 September 27, 2019This is a story I created by using sound effects. That’s right, NO WORDS! I encourage you to listen to the SoundCloud post below, and try to figure out the story with your own imagination, before I tell you the actual story! 😉 This is a story about a simple lumberjack who lives in a … -
Listen to at Your Own Risk
for my other audio assignments I did Spooky Sounds, which was to create to an audio of spooky sounds. Rated 4 1/2 Stars. For this assignment I thought all the way back to when I was little during Halloween times. I thought about the different sounds I would hear when I went out for trick […]
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