One of my assignment bank assignments for this week was “Please!! Someone Call The Police!!!.” This assignment was mostly improv between me and my friend, Kevin. I say mostly improv, because there were a few times when we had to cut the recording and try again. The assignment was pretty straightforward.

Here is the story of my softball journey, complete with my highs and lows! My Softball Journey

This is a short little radio bumper for radio ds106. I decided to make a little play on words and call it Radio 779, which is SPY in numbers on a key pad. I liked this little assignment and got to play with some of the effects that changed my voice. I lowered the pitch … Continue reading "Sleuthy Radio Bumper"

This track is the successor to a previous track I did, “Hell Is Real.” It was for the Spooky Sounds assignment from the assignment bank. I made this entire track by recording sounds I made and my voice and generating white and brown sound in Audacity, and then putting a bunch of effects on all […]

For the Remake the Genre assignment, I chose one of my favorite punk songs, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (also called Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye). The original song is in its own way a cover, or more of a remix, of an American Civil War song. In the Irish tradition, it’s an anti-war/resistance song first […]

The assignment was to create a song that gets stuck in your head easily…well this one does for me at Christmas! Can you guess the song?

I can’t believe it’s already week five. Time flies when you’re having fun right? This week’s of activities were pretty fun. I got to explore a topic which I have been removed from for a while now that I enjoyed the first time I did and I’m glad I still do. The assignments were pretty …

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This is my sound effect story. Creating this took a bit of work, because I had to hunt down very specific sounds I had in mind and find the right ones. For example, I wanted to find ambient traffic and city sounds that you hear in the beginning and toward the end. I ended up […]

Have you ever tried to wear glasses upside down? It’s possible, but not practical. Just trust me on this one. @ds106dc #tdc1865 Can't wear glasses like this pic.twitter.com/jfbDhdR0aZ — Daniel Z (@UMWdan) February 15, 2017

Jim Jones had a special relationship with all his followers. @ds106dc #tdc1864 Religious tolerance is always needed in a relationship pic.twitter.com/Ry7tuO8Fbv — Daniel Z (@UMWdan) February 14, 2017

This week was all about audio. This was one of my favorite weeks so far in ds106. I never knew how to edit audio and create my own edited mp3 files. It was a lot of fun. I learned how to mash different sound effects together to create a story. Audio is a great way …

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No one cared who I was until I put on the mask @ds106dc #tdc1863 Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? pic.twitter.com/Km8A6wrNiC — Daniel Z (@UMWdan) February 14, 2017 Quote is from Stanley Kubrick’s – Full Metal Jacket

@ds106dc #tdc1867 #doctorstrange #timecrystals pic.twitter.com/eewqp60xzw — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 18, 2017

Radio shows are something very new to me. I don’t typically listen to much radio or podcasts, I watch a lot of videos and listen to music. I think that an interesting concept would be to orally describe video-games, or even make a new genre of games that are more audio based. There is little … Continue reading "Radio Show Thoughts"

Even though I appreciated it and the technical aspects, I was not a huge fan of the Limetown radio show. Part of the reason is that I am not really an auditory learner, so having something to look at is a lot easier for me to get interested in. I love movies and books because … Continue reading Limetown

Twenty to thirty minutes seems like such a long time. The key I believe is that if we have a topic(s) that we truly enjoy then we will have no trouble hitting that time. Some ideas that I came up with are: Which Bond was best Bond? Spy gadgets, those that worked and then those …

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One of the assignments that was required for this week was the Sound Effects Story. Here is my sound effects story, with a not-so-happy ending. I started the assignment by spitballing the idea for my story. I thought a chase scene with running footsteps and a police siren would be pretty doable–all the effects I […]

This week for ds106 was all about audio. I was a little skeptical about doing anything audio related because to be honest I hate recording anything that I am in. However, as the week progress I started to come to like these assignments that I had to do. I listen the podcast called “Moon Graffiti” […]

Some radio show ideas I have are: A show that talks about bitcoin and upcoming news about bitcoin A show that talks about past real life spies A current events radio show Technology and the Internet Saving money and investing A radio show where you in...

Here’s my radio buffer for my upcoming ds106 radio show project. I created it with inspiration from all my previous campus radio shows, using audio clips I used in my radio shows. I just put together some of my favorite audio clips, recorded my voice saying something that I would hear on a local “the […]

The broad definition of a mixtape is a collection of songs. The directions for this assignment weren’t really clear on what was needed to do so I chose some songs that were important to me. The songs I chose for this mixtape are from artists that I saw live and really enjoyed their shows. Those …

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This is a spam email I received on my umw email account. I usually receive many of these spam emails and you can easily tell it is fake and spam. Never click on random links from spam emails or you will get your email account hacked.

This is a trap beat I picked out on youtube. I like trap and rap music beats because I enjoy hearing the loud bass.

This is the bumper I made for DS106 Radio. I actually lost my voice recently due to a cold, so coming up with a way to record this was challenging. I was originally going to try to find different audio files of people saying each word (“you’re,” “listening,” “to,”…), but using a robot voice generator was … Continue reading Radio Bumper

I love audio, but this week’s assignments drove me crazy. I started early as Dr. Bond had recommended, but to my dismay, Murphy in Murphy’s law visited me this week. First, I was unable to download Audacity on my computer, so I tried to use computers in different buildings; however, due to administrative reasons, I was unable to execute the …

I decided to create the sound of ice cubes hitting an empty glass mug. Here it is.

This assignment was to create a voicemail for a movie or tv show character. My first thought was Archer’s famous prank voicemails that he has recorded but I just can’t impersonate his voice. I needed to include my spy character for one of the assignments and decided that if Archer could do it, so could …

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“Moon Graffiti” was an interesting show to listen to. I haven’t listened to many radio shows or podcasts, so it was a little different, but I picked up on a few elements of sound to tell the story. Even though the episode was short, the writing and the sounds worked together to make it effective. Mimicking … Continue reading Moon Graffiti

Archives Well this was the hardest week for me so far, not only assignment wise but the sheer amount of time involved overall. I had a lot going on outside of school this week including a concussion from snowboarding last weekend and a state licensing exam so I’m pretty proud of myself for getting anything done at all lol. I started off by downloading Audacity and playing around on it. It took a lot of messing around and reading wikihow articles in order for me to be able to do anything. Once I did that I listened to “Moon Graffiti” […]