For the radio bumper assignment we had to create a radio bumper which is just a generic statement to let the viewer know what station they are listening to. This was a great opportunity for me to try out audacity. I don’t exactly have a radio voice so I tried to use audacity to deepen … Continue reading Radio Bumper →

Just kidding. Only one reverse. In this case, the reversing of a song, and the opportunity for readers to guess what it is. Link to…

The goal of this assignment was to create a piece of ambient music by slowing down an existing song by around 800%. As I was…

@ds106dc DS106 radio show makes contact with alien life……https://t.co/4kQzjBVFSB #tdc1718 #ClickBaitSyllabus #ds106 — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) September 21, 2016 For the daily create on the 21st we had to create a clickbait for the ds106 syllabus. Basically, we had to make something interesting and suspenseful that would make the reader want to click on a … Continue reading The Daily Create 9/21 →

This was easily my favorite podcast that I listened to this week. I thought it was interesting that there was a speech ready just in case the moon landing didn’t go as planned. It makes sense because the successful mission could have easily gone in the wrong direction if the smallest detail was neglected. One … Continue reading Moon Graffiti →

The Radio Bumper assignment was fun to do. Made me think that it would be kinda cool to be apart of a radio show. I recorded the bumper in Audacity then uploaded it to sound cloud. Well here it is.  

@ds106dc Only an eagle can find this one….. #artdropday #tdc1719 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/4ef2sOXlXQ — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) September 23, 2016 For the daily create on 9/22 we had to create a piece of art and hide it somewhere. I don’t want to spoil the fun and give the whereabouts of my art, but like I said … Continue reading The Daily Create 9/22 →

Sooo here is what I am thinking. There was a show on the Discovery Channel years ago called The Colony where the cast members had to prep and self sustain after an apocalyptic event. I think it would be cool to do a show about a specific colony when the world comes melting down and … Continue reading "Radio Show Ideas"

For my last assignment I chose to do a line remix where you take a line from a movie and remix it, but retain enough of the clip so that others will still know what it is from.  So, I chose to distort the voices from a line in step brothers. First, I searched for … Continue reading "Line remix"

If there is a doorway to Narnia I think we've found it….or maybe just an old house. @ds106dc #tdc1720 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/d1NxIAFJP0 — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) September 23, 2016 For today’s daily create we had to respond to a picture of an interesting door knob (from a previous daily create) and tell a story of what … Continue reading The Daily create 9/23 →

For my second assignment rated at four stars I chose to slow a song down by 800%. I watched looked at the tutorials on the assignment page and they all said to import your song into audacity and then use the change tempo button to slow down your song. Well I did, and it does … Continue reading "Make it slowerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

Audio is something I know relatively little about, and yet am absolutely fascinated with. I had the privilege of doing sound design for a game…

For this assignment I used a combination of sound clips. I wanted an upbeat yet chill radio bumper so I...

I was glad that we had to do this for one of our weekly assignments because I honestly enjoyed creating the clip and making it as real as possible. As I was brainstorming ideas I was thinking about trying to create a sporting event or something along those lines but there would have been to … Continue reading "Sound Effects Story"

The first thing I did for the week was to create a radio bumper. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing but luckily the audio resources page helped me out with my introduction to audacity. From there I went to freesound.org and searched for some music that would work for a bumper. After … Continue reading "Radio Bumper"

I tuned into the ds106 radio on Wednesday to listen to the Limetown podcast and I REALLY enjoyed it. I thought it was cool in the it reminded me of an old school radio show , but the content was very futuristic. The story followed Lia who is a reporter covering the conspiracy surrounding a … Continue reading Limetown! (audioreflection) →

This week I did 3 daily creates, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday! This week was back heavy because I had so much going on the first part of the week but I got em done. Create some click bate Ds106, The free class with no textbook! @ds106dc #tdc1718 — Ben Sorensen (@bensorense) September 21, 2016 2. Dropping … Continue reading "Daily Createssssss"

I thought this was an interesting topic with storytelling. A lot of people think of radio shows as an old, out dated form of storytelling. It can be one of the most powerful ways to tell a story.I thought Ira Glass really outlined how powerful audio can be. Audio storytelling is structured much differently than … Continue reading Thinking about audio storytelling (audio reflection) →

As I worked my way through the Audio Resources page that was provided for us, I found two very useful and insightful pieces. The first of which was the tutorial on how to use Audacity as I had never used an audio editing program before. The little crash course was enough to get me going … Continue reading "Audio Refection"

I liked the idea of playing around with recognizable songs, altering their structure to create a totally new tone or atmosphere.  Sometimes the best way to understand a concept or medium is to simply work with it.  So I decided to try my hand at the Make it 800% Slower assignment.  I will say that […]

This was a fun assignment that allowed us to try and creatively sell ds106 radio.  I actually began by creating the concluding fun tagline for the show, making my final decision by choosing a phrase that rhymed with “six”.  I then created the introduction with the station description, trying to keep the line short and […]

I love the idea of playing with tone.  With video-editing, I’ve always enjoyed creating video mash-ups that significantly alter the tone of a movie (usually making something seem entirely more dramatic than it should be).  As such, the over-dramatic reading assignment naturally caught my eye.  Making anything over-dramatic generally entails looking for decidedly non-dramatic source […]

It’s amazing how much information we gain simply through sound waves.  Sound can be incredibly powerful.  Patterns/tropes can emerge (think of the Wilhelm scream) and memories/feelings can be evoked (nails on a chalkboard, nostalgia from particular songs, etc.).  Each of the assignments this week reinforced the incredible diversity of sound and the implications associated with […]

Here’s a few of my rough ideas for the radio show project.  I’ve tried to focus on ideas that can be connected to the Internet, and then attempted to flesh them out. Covering the most outlandish Internet news stories What has gone viral, and why? Fact-checking What are the origins of each story? In which […]

Audio week was ruff. I had a lot of difficulty figuring out how to crop audio and make it work for me so I didn’t get a lot done this week. I’ll keep working on it but I don’t have a lot of finished work for this week unfortunately. Think about Audio Storytelling http://bobbybobbles.com/uncategorized/audio-in-media/ Listen … Continue reading "Week 4"

Audio in media is very important. Music has a way of bring out emotions in people with a single note. Now if you pair that power with a powerful scene on T.V. it can be really impactful. But not all background music has the intent to make something impactful. Some times they just try to … Continue reading "Audio in Media"

Brainstorming ideas for a talk show was actually a little harder than I thought it would be. I mean, what can you talk about that would keep peoples attention for about 30 minutes and make them want to listen? AND come back the next time you air to listen again!? Some ideas I came up ...

I completely forgot to do this. Whoops. From the beginning of the week: You know how I was scared for photography? At least I’d taken picture before. This? Audio editing? NEVER. I listen to music, and that’s about the extent of my experience. Audacity seems like it’s pretty easy to use though, [edit: HAHAHAHA. I hadn’t accidentally erased … Continue reading Audio Reflection →

Week 4 Complete!! Always such fun when exploring new ways on how storytelling fits into our daily digital lives. This week we experienced with audio storytelling and I had a lot of fun using a bunch of different tools. I had a little trouble with downloading Audacity which made it hard going about this weeks … Continue reading Week 4!!