Below I will list and explore some ideas for the upcoming radio show assignment: The Spy Stories: This would just be a story told through audio about Aaron Brand (my spy character) and the other spy characters of the other students in the group. My group mates and I will collaborate and come up with […]

All of the sounds are from http://freesounds.org; I do not own them. AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments70

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Who doesn’t love making playlists/mixtapes? I might have went a little overboard with 29 tracks, but let’s just say it’s Volume 1 and Volume 2. Almost all of these are early 2000s music from when I was a kid. It’s basically of a mixture between pop, R&B, boyband music, and country. A song or two … Continue reading My Killer Playlist

Archives I can honestly say I am not looking forward to this. Participating in a radio show is like starring in my very own horror film! However, I know its something I’ll have to do for this class so I’m steeling myself for it already. As far as ideas for it go, I wasn’t really able to come up with much that relates to our class theme. My main idea was to discuss our favorite spy movies and/or books of all time. I also thought we could put a poll together ahead of time and poll all of our friends […]

This is actually kind of convenient because I do a radio show at UMW with someone else in the ds106 class, Mikey Barnes. We do a sports talk show called Mike & (not) Mike, to play off of ESPN’s famous Mike & Mike in the Morning. It’s been fairly successful and we’ve had a lot …

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This Wednesday, I tuned into the DS106 Radio to listen to that evening’s episode of the Limetown saga. I only caught the show from 9:00 PM to 9:30 PM, because I had plans. I’ve never participated in live-Tweeting before, but I really enjoyed it! The show itself was really well-done. All the dialogue, the mystery that […]

This is a mixtape that I decided to throw together for a bus trip I had recently. It’s just a simple, fun classic rock playlist with some varied sounds and artists. A lot of these songs are what I grew up listening to on CD or on the Sirius Radio channel Classic Rewind. I think … Continue reading "Mixtape Master"

I just witnessed a car crash yesterday so I decided to make a sound effects story about a car crash.

I did the Reverse Audio Quiz and now your job as the reader is to try and guess the song by listening to it reversed and also with the help of three hints. My three hints are: This song is from the genre Vaporwave, so as a result it samples old 80’s music and slows it down …

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Please feel free to not listen to this one, but I was definitely dying while listening to myself. This was as close to a believable fake voice as I could edit it. I liked this assignment because all it required was my voice and no other external sounds, which kept it simple. It challenged me …

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I hate to say it but the Lime Town Mysteries has finally ended and to be honest I’m left with more questions unanswered than I thought I would at the start of the podcasts. I absolutely enjoyed the dark aspect of the story especially with danger in every turn Lia Haddock made. The background sounds […]

Archives For this assignment, I had to tell a story using only sound effects. This was not an easy task at all! I took all my sound clips from http://freesound.org. This site a huge library of sounds but it took me a long time to decide what “story” to tell. I am not a very creative person at all and in the end I went with telling the story of a normal day for me. I searched the sound library and picked my favorite of each one that I was looking for. Then, I used Audacity to combine them all into […]

So the assignment said to use only what’s in arms reach, so I used a big plastic lid and squirted water from my bottle into it. It ended up sounding more like pee in a toilet, but you get the idea.

The Truth Podcast can really make a creepy audio story. This week I listened to “Moon Graffiti” on The Truth Podcast’s Sound Cloud. Audio has a powerful effect in storytelling. Sound effects, just as much as dialogue, are important in telling a story. “Moon Graffiti” is an excellent example of this. I especially like the sound […]

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This week was a focus on audio, and as much as I love music and audio I don’t think I took for granted how hard it is to get everything to cooperate and get things the way you specifically want them.  This week I ran into troubles with uploading to my soundcloud for copyright reasons […]

    This audio clip combines a pig oinking, walking up stairs, my car turning on, a pen writing, silverware clinking, a softball bat hitting balls, and snoring. I did a pig oinking because I have a pig and that’s the first thing I hear when I wake up. I used walking up stairs because I spend ... Read more

For the sound effects story assignment, I used Audacity to create a short story using horror sound effects. Finding the sounds didn’t take too long, but layering them and timing them correctly was the hardest part. I chose the sound of rain, a door creaking, a door closing, a creaky house with echoes, ghostly whispers, … Continue reading A Scary Story

These are my least favorite thing to listen to on the radio, even commercials. And now, I think I hate making them even more. Regardless, it was a little fun to play around with, but I just don’t think I have the voice for the radio. I used some sounds I found on the internet …

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Man, honestly this week was hard! I started out by downloading audacity but I didn’t really experiment with it, I just started out with an assignment and hoped for the best. The first assignment I did was from the assignment bank and was rated 3 1/2 stars titled Cooking Dinner. I think it was a … Continue reading "Week 5 Summery"

Here is a radio bumper I created for the ds 106 radio show.

This was quite challenging. I improvised for most of the sound effects by using my surroundings or finding what I needed on Youtube and holding it up to the microphone. It may not be the best quality and a morbid story (if you can tell what’s going on, but it turned out a lot better …

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Inside of me & Someone like you This mashup was definitely an unexpected one since Yiruma’s and Adele’s musics are very different from each other. A couple of instrumental musics that I knew came to mind initially, but concerning that classical music was way too “classic,” it did not fit with Adele’s contemporary style of music and I decided not …

Archives This was one of the harder assignments for me so far because I’m not super comfortable recording me/my voice. The purpose of the assignment was to create a radio bumper for ds106 radio. For those who have never heard this term before (like me), a radio bumper is kind’ve like a short commercial for the station between songs telling you what station you are listening to. First, I had to find a good song  to play in the background. I couldn’t think of any actual songs I wanted to use but I found a sound clip I liked that […]

This was fairly easy to do, his voice is already pretty high anyway.  I s=just imported the track to audacity and changed the pitch setting and uploaded to my soundcloud account.  interesting outcome overall!

I have always wanted to do a radio show, so I guess this is my chance. Some  ideas of radio show ideas include: Talking about different types of spies, real and fiction Counting down the best spy movies Counting down the best real spies What makes a spy movie great What are characteristics of spies Those … Continue reading "Radio Show Ideas"

I thought it was cool to listen to the radio show. I liked the performance and how the events took place. I look forward to hearing more about the ds106 radio show.

Listening to  Moon Graffiti  was very interesting and cool. I thought it was really cool to think about what would have happened if we crashed going to the moon. And to think about the legacy they were leaving behind. It was really interesting to hear them talk as if they only had a few hours …

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Bonjour! You are now listening to DS106 Radio, –a station with the hottest music, stories, dramas…you name it all. We play back to back to cater your audio needs —so don’t go anywhere! We’ll be back after 15 seconds. AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments36