I was on holiday this week. I did have broadband in the cottage I was staying in, but was out and about most days away from a connection. This meant that I didn’t do much any of the listening required for Headless ds106 Week 4: Introduction to Audio- Listening First. I normally listen to audio […]

After a couple of days fighting Nicecast and talking to the Skype lady I took a wee break today. I remembered Scottlo had blogged about a new iOS app for broadcasting to icecast and though I’d give it a spin. The app is iCast Pro. I had occasionally used papaya but this has been discontinued. […]

I am ds106 Here’s daily create #622: This was done with Sketchbook Pro and Pinnacle Studio on an iPad.

This is another element of the work being done around audio with DS106. The suggestion is to try to tell a story with only audio effects, which is more difficult than it seems. I decided to only use the sounds in Garageband, and what I quickly realized is how limiting that can be. But I ...

Week four summary: As I write this on Saturday night, my first thought is that I didn’t do much in the way of Daily Creates. But, in looking back, I at least submitted some weak attempts, mostly based on approprating preexisting work. On Monday, TDC617 was to be a thirty second audio clip defining Philosophy. […]

A few notions around the use of audio and some notes on nicecast. ‎www.idlewords.com/audio-manifesto.txt advancednicecastusage – sirdarkstar ds106 – Community – Google+ After all the nicecast changing and testing of effects I’ve been doing the audio on this one is pretty rough. I also got some, quite a few, sections of silence. Not sure where […]

Awesome! Just discovered RadioLab and this talk is something I will want to go back to. Don’t talk about stuff, be the stuff. Inspiring and humbling all at once.

The use of that expression, “turned off,” in these narratives had been puzzling me. As a metaphor, it makes perfect sense. It’s just like turning off a light switch. But these stories come from the days before electricity. How did … Continue reading →

My friend, Chad Sansing, created this very neat hackable, remixable Thimble page with Mozilla Webmaker that allows you to create a page for band. Preferrably, a fake band. It’s called the Fake Band Wiki, and so I dabbled with Chad’s code to create this homage to a fake band for a fake comic character from ...

So the other day I decided to take a break from all this crime and murder and listen to one of my old vinyl LPs by The Swinging Neckbreakers. Usually when I listen to an LP I also record it on … Continue reading →

Well, sometimes I go to a Red Carpet event and I get my picture taken. In this case, these pictures are from a carpeting convention in Buffalo, so I was just wearing a sweatshirt and jeans instead of my usual glamour gown. But these pictures are good for showing today’s The Daily Create Challenge tdc621: […]

Well, the other day when people were in a Google Hangout talking about going on #ds106radio jamathon, I was there but I couldn’t get my mic to work and so I was just looking at everybody on the screen. So it was fun but not as much as if I was talking. So tonight I […]

I am catching up with another Daily Create, let’s say this one fits the one where we were...

A path that leads the eye… This iPhone photo shared a problem with many others, too great a dynamic range, with some areas well exposed, some underexposed and some overexposed. My goto app for solving this problem is Filterstorm – I use its tone mapping feature to brighten the dark areas and darken the bright […]

This recording is of a live transmission on ds106radio from September 20, 2013. Thanks to Bill, Christina and Mariana for phoning in.

Looks like Martha Burtis and I are hometown heroes thanks to ds106. Reporter Lindley Estes of the Free Lance-Star published an edited version of a post from yesterday’s UMW Newsletter EagleEye announcing ds106 as one of five winners of the Reclaim Open Learning … Continue reading →

I have just had another fabulous afternoon playing with sound for another...

One of this weeks assignments is creating a radio bumper for ds106, but I already did one in spring '13. This way I rather have chosen something similar to this from the assignment bank, which is to produce your very own Rap. I had to go to Soundation ...

A sound effect story… entitled ‘The Banana Peel.’ Here’s the link to the story on SoundCloud: I had worked with sound files before, mostly when dealing with the soundtrack on videos. So I had been doing a bit of editing – things like splitting a track, cutting out bits and throwing them away, and moving […]

Photo of a grid, off the grid… Yes, this tiled hot pot stand is completely unplugged. Photo for the ds106 daily create taken with an iPhone. Just cropped and with no additional post-processing.

I love audio, but am fairly scared of music making. I am a bit of a klutz musically, can’t clap in time or keep a tune. I’ve already created a couple of bumpers for ds106: Jim Says, Listen to the LoDown and DS106 Confusion. both relied on music from someone else, one a GarageBand loop […]