I didn’t know what a radio bumper was until it was described to me in the assignment. Then after I knew what it

So this week I decided to do the Celebrity Speed Dating assignment where we have thirty seconds to talk to a celebrity of our choice and tell them anything we want. I chose Adam Driver, commonly known as Kylo Ren, from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It might sound a little scripted, because I did […]

This is my bumper to help keep the Western DS106 station going!

I’ve always liked poems. Whether its reading it in a book, as a quote on Twitter, listening to poems being read, or just

For this assignment, I am going to share with everyone a song that reminds me of the past. It’s a Rhythm and Blues

I started off the week by participating in creating my invention. I found this one the most interesting that I have completed thus far. At first I was a little curious to what I could invent if I had the power to do so, but then I decided on creating a clone, because come on, […]

I decided to choose this country song by Eric Church. It’s pretty nostalgic and a good song too!!!

And with that, our audio week comes to an end. At this point, it seems like every week has been

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I decided to read the lyrics from “Hotline Bling” by Drake.

I’ve waited until the end of the week to do this, as I wanted to experience a plethora of audio,

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So, after learning the basic of audio editing from audacity, I started this assignment. I searched around on freesound after reading about its existence from a fellow ds106 participant on her radio bumper post. It was a fairly straight forward process after I watched the tutorial. I just found a guitar bit I liked to […]

This week was filled with learning. I started off by reflecting on what I knew and what I had yet to learn. I also put out some ideas for the midterm. Then I participated in a tweet-along and gleaned some information on what a radio show used to sound like versus a newer one like “Moon Graffiti”. … Continue reading Week 5: The Wind Calls →

So this week we had to do 3 daily creates from twitter. I really enjoyed the ones for this week, I thought they were pretty great! For the first one, we had to create an invention of some sort, so I decided on a breakfast buddy! Essentially, it’s a spin off of the machine in … Continue reading "Always Making Something New…"

This assignment was pretty fun! I re-did my recording like 8 times probably because I kept saying something strange or something that didn’t make any sense. I ended up just keeping it pretty simple, but I like the way it turned out. I used a guitar sound from freesound for the background and talked over … Continue reading "Radio Bumper"

I was in awe when I actually thought about the impact of audio in a story. At first thought I

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This assignment was pretty nerve racking. I felt like I was actually doing speed dating when I was talking and trying to figure out what to say in 30 seconds. I kind of winged it because if I were to try speed dating I definitely would change what I say with every person, so I … Continue reading "30 Seconds: All About Me"

For this assignment I had to choose an artist and pick at least 5 of their songs and create a mashup, at least 5 minutes long. I chose to do New Politics for this because I’m fairly obsessed with them and it happened pretty quickly…I saw them live and fell in love. So while they are … Continue reading "Mashed potat….songs"

The audio in the podcast episode “Moon Graffiti” was extremely eerie and well-placed throughout the story. I liked how the speaking sounded like it was coming from different positions and areas. Listening to it with headphones on was effectively immersive. The characters within the story spoke eloquently and solemnly to one another throughout the story. Behind their … Continue reading Thoughts on Moon Graffiti →

So for my radio show, I’m not quite sure yet what I want to do. I have a few kind of random ideas but I’m not sure how they’ll go together. Here are some ideas I have as of now: I think it would be really fun to do like an Onion type show where … Continue reading "Radio Madness"

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson This assignment was one of my favorites so far, but also one of

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Wow! Already end of week 5! This semester is flying by and I am getting closer and closer to graduation. This week was about audio assignments. I first started off the week by downloaded Audacity and the LAME file so I could make the files from Audacity to MP3 ones. Following this, I accessed the audio […]

This week was based all around audio and to be honest this was the week I was fearing. The visual, video and writing all comes easier to me than audio. To my surprise though, I think I learned a lot this week and the following is my audio reflection. I think sound is often overlooked […]

For week number 5 we had to create all audio assignments, this week was really hard for me in general. I am just terrible with audio stuff and was really frustrating for me. My daily creates consisted of either drawing or putting a face in someone. I really liked the ones I picked an had … Continue reading "Weekly Summary"

One of the final assignments we had to do this week was to create a bumper for DS106 radio. The assignment is an audio assignment bank post call create a bumper. For this assignment we had to create a 10-30 second recording referring to the DS106 radio station. For this I went to free sound.org and […]

Weekly Summary – Week 5 This week was one of the easiest and hardest weeks I have completed so far.  It was one of the easiest because this week, I planned out my blogs/time the best I have from the previous 4 weeks.  However, it was the hardest because I came into this week knowing […]

This week was a busy week. From the daily creates to the assignments utilizing audacity and soundcloud not to mention my more traditional schoolwork, this week kept me busy. The assignment to reflect on audio as a medium of communication gave me more insight into a little history of the genre as whole. I thought […]

I completed 3 daily creates this week, all of which were of different creative intensities. This first create asked us to impart some western wisdom on the world. I figured we should blaze trails and not hay. @ds106dc #tdc1491 #ds106Blaze trails not hay — Michael Anzelmo (@mezzmello) February 8, 2016 The next daily create directed […]

I’ve been reading a lot of your radio show ideas, and everyone is really find a great way to incorporate

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This assignment had us pick a song with special significance to us, and then explain that importance through audio. I

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