The first one is a remixed bhangra beat of the song All The Way Up with Fat Joe and Remy Ma.  To be honest I enjoy them both but I think I might be biased because I am a hugeee fan of bass in my music and the original just does that for me.  […]

So this took me a little bit longer than expected because it wouldn’t allow me to post it onto my soundcloud but I just made a quick imovie so I could upload it on my youtube channel.  I chose this song because my girlfriend has been singing it all day and I like it a […]

At sometime in their life someone has been told a fishing story that sounds too crazy to be true. My story here is just a little bit more tame. I used 6 sounds to create my story of someone going out fishing and catching a fish. The story consists of someone walking to their favorite …

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Audio week as was forewarned was a fair amount of work. Fun work mind you but plenty of work too. I think my most proud part of the week was my fake commercial for underwater living, mostly because I had the most fun making it. However the over all coolest part of this whole week […]

I took on the Make Your Own Commercial! assignment worth 3 1/2 stars. I was flipping through at random and found this one and since I had just completed the radio bumper assignment I thought it would be fun to stay on a trend. For my radio commercial I decided to advertise for a fictional […]

The Sound Effects assignment worth 3 stars said to find a sound lacking on Free Sound. Now in my previous post where I created the Sound Story project I mentioned how I was looking for breathing sounds and they all sounded too deep for what I was trying to do. So I figured this assignment […]

When I first read that we had to do this assignment, I was a little nervous because I personally do not like to use my voice for audio related thing, but then I realized that I don’t have to use my own voice! I have my friends for that! So I recorded one of my … Continue reading "DS106 Radio Bumper"

After listening to the DS106 radio for the first two live broadcasts I figured I needed to take a swing at working on my own already. My approach was to go for a standard radio add, but minus the loudness that I usually associate with radio bumpers. Usually the examples I could think of from […]

Week 5’s mission assignments were enjoyable and fun creative experiments with me. I stared the week off with a tutoring session on Audacity at UMW’s Digital Media/Tech Center, while additionally completing my three daily creates shown below. I additionally had a discussion with a classmate about what prompted me to continue with a feet theme … Continue reading "Mission Check-In: Week 5 Summary"

For the Audio assignment, I decided to do a mash-up of an original song and a cover of that song. The assignment was called Mixing Songs like batter and was rated 4 1/2 stars. I think It deserves a 5 because it was pretty fricken hard! I attempted to take Eleanor Rigby performed by the Beatles and … Continue reading "Eleanor Rigby"

Here is my mixtape for the week.  I’ve never really sat down to create one of my own but I enjoyed putting these songs together.  I couldn’t do this from the top of my head and I wanted the songs to fit and mix smoothly so I went on my youtube feed to see the […]

After hearing a radio advertisement last week for the D.C. Spy Museum’s annual “Sex-spionage” exhibition revolving around romance and manipulation relating to spy history in honor of Valentine’s Day, I had the idea of a radio show dedicated to the most intriguing set of famous spy romances or romantic manipulation scenarios spies have executed in … Continue reading "Sexspionage: Spy Radio Show Ideas"

After listening to Moon Graffiti, I was interested in the simplistic effectiveness of a radio-filter over both astronaut voices and a droning pieces of eerie background music were in creating low-intensity tension during the story. I then appreciated the infrequent clicking noise which made the audio sound especially dated, like an old film or audio … Continue reading "“Moon Graffiti” Reflection"

This week, I tuned in and live-tweeted during Wednesday’s and Thursday’s broadcasts of “Limetown” on DS106 Radio. I found the first night’s experience quite interesting, with the plot familiarizing me with the technological ideas being portrayed in the story and the sound effects used throughout the night ranging more notably towards outdoor effects due to … Continue reading "Limetown’s Luminous Soundscape"

I used 5 sound effects in Audacity in addition to my own vocal recording to create a bumper for DS106 Radio. I found the process easy and enjoyable, attempting to imitate radio DJs by using an echoed “Hey!” exclamation in my bumper and a piano synth as ornamentation to my backing effects. Check out my … Continue reading "Auditory Soundscapes: “DS106 Radio Bumper”"

This 4 point audio assignment instructed me to choose two similar songs and mash them together so that a conversation of sorts between the singers appears to be happening. Below is my creation. I chose the songs “You are the First, My Last, My Everything” by Barry White and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by … Continue reading "You’re the First, High Enough: “Music Mash”"

For this 3.5 point audio assignment, I was instructed to reverse a recognizable song and provide three hints as to what the original song was. I found this assignment easy, only requiring me to apply a reversal effect on a converted song MP3 in Audacity. My first hint is actually the title of my blog … Continue reading "What’s Melting in Reverse?: “Reverse Audio Quiz”"

This week was focused on the format audio. I was a little nervous going into this week because I had experience in the other formats we have used in the past week, but not in this. It turned out that I had a lot of fun doing the assignments and got to be very creative …

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This assignment was 3 stars and rounds out my 12 stars worth of assignments. For this assignment you create your own 30 second ringtone. I mashed two different guitar solos to create this. I edited them a little and I think it came together very well: ...

For this 3 point audio assignment, I was instructed to record a thirty second speed-dating clip telling a celebrity enough about me to see if they were interested. To relate it to our secret agent theme for the semester, I wrote a quick script for Agent 003 (Wren Wilder) outside of his classified field of … Continue reading "003’s Speed-Date with Thandie Newton: “Celebrity Speed-Dating”"

For this 3.5 point audio assignment, I was instructed to create a story with at least 5 sounds in under 90 seconds. My product is displayed below. I first decided on the idea of a bride’s walk down the aisle of her wedding as my story, due to some vivid sounds immediately coming to my … Continue reading "A Bride and an Aisle: “Sound Effects Story”"

I feel like I got so much done this week! It was honestly fun to mess around with the audio side of technology because although I listen to music fairly often I dont normally mix and make mash ups of my own so this was all new to me. Also Ive never done audio recording …

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I thought this was a really funny assignment to do and I didn’t take it very seriously. I would definitely love to meet Jennifer Anniston though, as well as many other actors. I think actors could be some of the coolest people because they all have to have great personalities, that’s literally how they make … Continue reading "Jennifer, so nice to meet you!"

This week had some interesting daily creates. The first one I did was on 2/15 and the prompt was to show a picture that would look cool upside down. I chose to take a picture I had of the baseball field the National’s play on and flip it upside down: @ds106dc #tdc1865 Nat's stadium pic.twitter.com/GcHopEPe1O …

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Let’s start off with how cool DS 106 radio was/is, cause it is pretty cool. I enjoyed the aspect of live tweeting as a group. Mostly because it was basically the only time most of the class seemed to be on twitter from what I can tell. While we all check twitter and each others […]

This week our assignment was to tune in to a radio show done by ds106 and tweet along with our classmates. This was a great experience for me because the tweets gave everyone’s perspective on what was going on. The radio show was called Limetown and while it had quite a dark story surrounding its …

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