Sound Off – part 4

Sound Off – part 4

by @kspeonygarden

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July 15, 2018

Hello, everyone! This is the story of what it might be like if The Beatles never broke up (based on the alternate history story I told, last week): I grabbed all of the sounds and the music from Freesound.org and the Free Music Archive, with the exception of my own voice, which I recorded on... Continue Reading →
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My Happy Place

by @jasmxlon

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July 15, 2018

Featured Image I LOVE creating playlists & mixtapes for my friends. In high school, I created mix CDs for a couple of friends whenever I came back from a concert so they could listen to whatever great artist I just saw. When I saw the Make Your Own Mixtape assignment, I knew what I had to do. …
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Sound Off – part 3

by @kspeonygarden

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July 15, 2018

Hello, everyone! I made a recording of myself performing a tongue twister as fast as I could, and set it to some music: The tongue twister in question goes, “Send toast to ten tense, stout saints’ ten tall tents.” The background music is a track I found on the Free Music Archive, “Glouglou,” by Komiku.... Continue Reading →
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Cooking with Sounds

by @jasmxlon

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July 15, 2018

Featured Image This track was created for my Sound Effects Story assignment. The following sounds were used from FreeSound: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 I edited this track with Adobe Audition CC 2018.
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Sound Off – part 1

by @kspeonygarden

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July 15, 2018

Hello, everyone! I would like to share with you all my sound effects story, about a person who stops an alien invasion and saves the world from certain destruction: The narrative opens with someone walking down a busy street, on their way to work, when a flying saucer arrives and begins attacking, causing everyone else... Continue Reading →
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Dear Friends: Storytime Fun

by @ds106_aaliyah

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July 14, 2018

The last required assignment for the third week was Story Time Fun a 3 1/2 star assignment, which was linked to our previous Alternative History assignment. Last week I had to actually change my assignment (giving me more work to do) because I noticed that […]
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Sound Effects Story

by @ds106_aaliyah

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July 12, 2018

This blog is For the required audio assignment titled Sound Effects Story (four stars). We had to tell a story using nothing but sound effects. That meant There no verbal communication, only sound effects. For my sound effects story, I based it around something […]
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Poor Unfortunate Souls Mother Knows Best: Apocalyptic Disney

by @ds106_aaliyah

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July 12, 2018

Poor Unfortunate Souls Mother Knows Best
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The Drop

by @Michael Dietrich

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June 10, 2018

When thinking about how to tell a story using only sound, I decided the best way to go about doing this was to depict a disaster in process, as we as a society have heard the sounds of disaster so much over the years within pop culture media that it would not be difficult to …
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Elvis has Not left the builiding 2.0

by @Pringleduckface

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June 10, 2018

For this assignment I decided to try my best and create a sample of what Elvis might be doing if…
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The Real House Wife of King George

by @Pringleduckface

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June 10, 2018

This assignment was super fun to me! I love the Real House Wives. I have been watching since I was…
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The Journey

by @Michael Dietrich

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June 10, 2018

When telling this story about a hellish post-apocalyptic land, rather than trying to tell a grand sweeping story, I decided to make it a more down to earth tale. To that end, I decided to tell this story from the perspective of a lone traveler, a young man who has never experienced the world before …
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The Dark Side of the Moon

by @LeslieMiyazono

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June 10, 2018

Scary noises, such as creaky doors and howling wind, could possibly trigger an apprehensive or uneasy emotion to the listener. A conceivable conclusion is that the listener may feel threatened or simply just afraid of the unknown. The audio assignment below is a compilation of undesirable sound effects, designed to create an environment of distress …
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Crank(y) Call

by @Darth_Pipe

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June 10, 2018

So, my daughter pointed out to me as I recorded this audio that it will be interpreted as racist or discriminatory or anti-something. My answer to that is that this is nonfiction. This is a phone conversation I had sometime back in 1997 or ’98. I wrote the dialogue as true to my memory as …
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A positive attitude changes everything

by @LeslieMiyazono

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June 10, 2018

How you begin your day can affect the outcome. Getting up on the wrong side of the bed is a figure of speech implying a grouchy or irritable state of mind, especially when the day’s activities are not in line with one’s normal disposition. Your attitude and actions can have a strong effect on your …
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Vamos a Mexico!

by @LeslieMiyazono

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June 10, 2018

Vacations typically start out stressful. Ensuring necessary items are packed, meeting flight departure schedules, and accounting for unforeseen traffic delays can cause anxiety to even the most prepared and well seasoned traveler. However, arriving at the destination can be a rewarding experience despite all the hassle that previously occurred. Below is an audio story using …
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“Freedom Towers” – April 4, 2023

by @LeslieMiyazono

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June 10, 2018

What if the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001 never happened? What would the World Trade Center Twin Towers look like today? These are the questions selected for the Alternative History assignment. A proposed alternative – if the Twin Towers were never demolished in the terrorist attack, would there be a ceremony commemorating …
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Phone Conversation With Myself?

by @YousephAsaad

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June 10, 2018

Five stars of additional design work Have A Phone Conversation With Yourself (5 Stars): Phones give us the ability to converse with anyone we want to, no matter where they are. For this assignment, I was required to record audio of myself holding down both sides of a conversation. I used a voice pitcher to […]
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Every Horror Movie Ever

by @YousephAsaad

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June 10, 2018

Sound Effects Story Horror movies. We’ve all seen them whether we wanted to or because or friends forced us. The exhilarating and anxious feeling you get in the build up to a scary moment in the movie is incomparable to another other feeling. For this assignment, my job was to create a story using nothing […]
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Smartphones Were Never There

by @YousephAsaad

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June 10, 2018

Alternative History assignment This assignment, from the assignment bank, required us to tell a story based on our alternative history assignment topic we chose a week ago. Since I chose the topic of “what if smartphones never existed”, I decided to tell a story of the many different problems and solutions to smartphone addiction. The […]
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It all Comes Crashing Down

by @Hollis Pultz

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June 10, 2018

The Sounds Speak for Themselves The final assignment this week was more or less the equivalent to the audio version of a design effect: use audio editing skills to create a ninety-second-or-less audio story without verbal communication. Again, dealing with steam powered Detroit, I chose to continue where I left off with Hollis and Meg’s …
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Tensions Flare at Home

by @Hollis Pultz

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June 10, 2018

Story Time! Telling a story using audio could not possibly be hard, right? Well, while literally telling a story into a mic has inherent simplicities, making an audio story for the story-time assignment had challenges. Mixing the audio of the different tracks required much listening and re-listening to get the volumes and fades just right. …
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Sammy Da Eagle

by @Pringleduckface

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June 10, 2018

For this assignment I turned a Justin Bieber song in to a song about orientation. I love Justin Bieber and…
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Playing Something on the Piano is not Always Better

by @Hollis Pultz

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June 10, 2018

What? No Words? The first assignment I tackled this week was a meaty five-star dealing with converting audio files. I had to create an auditory illusion; this is where a song with heavy vocals is taken and converted into a midi file, then played as a piano track on computer. To be frank, the most …
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Playing Something on the Piano is not Always Better (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

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June 10, 2018

How it all Came to Be Here I walk you through the Auditory Illusions assignment. We will be using the song Sober Taxi from Free Music Archive, MIDITrail for Mac, and Bear File Converter. Of course, you will need to take a screen recording of your finished illusion once you have the midi track playing. …
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I’m Coming Home

by @Pringleduckface

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June 9, 2018

For this assignment I had to tell a story using only sound effects. So I decided to tell the story…
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Crank(y) Call

by @Darth_Pipe

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1665, ds106, Syndicated
June 9, 2018

So, my daughter pointed out to me as I recorded this audio that it will be interpreted as racist or discriminatory or anti-something. My answer to that is that this is nonfiction. This is a phone conversation I had sometime back in 1997 or ’98. I wrote the dialogue as true to my memory as …
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Tales From Space!

by @Darth_Pipe

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June 9, 2018

On this week’s episode of Tales from Space!, our intrepid hero learns that not everything on unexplored worlds is friendly … After listening to some samples, I came up with the idea of a space explorer meeting his fate on an uncharted world. I searched for sounds of a spacecraft landing, steps on a metal …
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the OG Kazoo Kid

by @Pringleduckface

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June 9, 2018

Instead of combining an instrumental and acapella track, I combined a recording of me playing the kazoo and a karaoke…
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Daily Sounds

by @kasc96

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June 9, 2018

For this assignment, I went through my day and took recordings of sounds that I heard. First thing in the morning my dogs eat so I recorded that. Then I recorded a bit of the show Mysteries at the Museum because that is what is normally on the television. I then went to the farmers […]
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