This audio assignment is called reverse audio and is where you take a song from your iTunes account and reverse it in Audacity. It is worth 3.5 stars and brings me over the 12 star minimum. You then create three hints about the song. The first hint is it is from a musical about a …

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Archives Tonight, I finally had a chance and was awake late enough to listen to story time on ds106 Radio! It was not at all what I expected which made it that much better. I wasn’t sure I would be able to follow along for a full hour but the story drew me in almost as soon as it started, even though I didn’t even know what was going on. While the story drew me, tweeting back and forth with everyone else helped me understand what was going on better. It even helped bring some comedy to what is actually […]

This tweet along was about one of my most favorite podcast, Limetown. If you have never heard of this podcast, you need to look it up. Its about a girl who investigates the disappearance of an entire town. The two episodes that we listened to were intense and was very fun to listen to. The …

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This assignment was called real houswives tagline and was worth 3 stars. For this assignment you had to create a tagline for yourselves as if you were on one of the real houswives shows. I love those shows so this was great for me. I decided to make mine: my heart may not be gold, …

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I am not much of a rock-and-roll person but I really enjoyed listening to Let it go’s rock version. I found that the rock version captivated emotions of the song well and it also triggered similar yet different emotions from me. I cannot really say which one I like better; although I am an advocate for original versions of songs, …

This assignment was called good morning message for the village and it was worth 2.5 stars. All you had to do was create a nice message for the villagers to wake up to. I channeled my inner Wisconsinite again and made a little message about black bears...

This was my second audio assignment and I enjoyed this so much because there was so much room for creativity. I took it upon myself to tell the story with only sound effects from free sources of a small town Kansas farmer named Ted Hanks who goes about his day to day business of feeding …

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@ds106dc #tdc1862 Film? Digital? Macro lens? Zoom lens? Whatever will I do?! pic.twitter.com/MZtbaasaIW — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 13, 2017

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This assignment took a really long time for me to complete, mostly because I could not find clips with singers singing the same versions of the song. I did not anticipate such time consumption because I started with a thought, “It’ll be easy; I will find two versions of the same song and combine them using a mashup program.” Little …

Moon Graffiti is a really cool story with just sound effects. You can follow along really well with just sound effects and you don’t need much context to get what this is about. The sound effects and audio makes me skin crawl. It is so creepy and eerie and amazing. Sound could make or break …

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This was actually really amazing. I have never listened to or heard of this type of dedicated audio storytelling before without the use of pictures so I was pleasantly surprised to hear how great this was. I found it so fascinating how they used the sound effects to sort of show you what is going …

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Archives “Moon Graffiti” was really amazing to listen to. I never really knew how well sound could set the stage and tell a story. The music in the background to the recorded conversation really set the mood and intensified everything. It added suspense to the whole story. When they found bad damage, the music changed. During the speech at the end, the music took on a sad, eerie quality. Some of the music heard reminded me of the music played during movies and tv shows when people are in space or when there are aliens so it definitely made me […]

So for my story using ONLY sound, I decided to do what my Friday’s usually sound like. I got all of the sounds from freesounds.org and mashed together what a typical Friday sounds like to me. Hope you enjoy!

I just finished the assignment called create a radio bumper. I had a major struggle with this one but I’m happy with how it turned out. I got some cool downloads from free sound effects sites and used my own voice to create the bumper for a radio station I made up called station W-KAY. …

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This was so much fun! As a crazy cat lady myself it was fun to play the dog person and the cat person. I love both so it was fun!!! The assignment wanted you to be two people in one story. So I made a fake podcast with myself and Joann. Again, SO. MUCH. FUN! …

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February 15 @ds106dc #tdc1865 pic.twitter.com/XFHhdxXtZL — Amari Byrd (@A_marillo) February 15, 2017  

February 14   @ds106dc Valentine's Day Challenge Accepted! #tdc1864 pic.twitter.com/vYfJV6d7wx — Amari Byrd (@A_marillo) February 14, 2017

Feb 12   @ds106dc Which pen should I use for my notes: gel, normal, fineliner? #tdc1862 pic.twitter.com/iiia5bTKWJ — Amari Byrd (@A_marillo) February 12, 2017

I live tweeted for the first time! That was an experience. I am not a really big fan of live-tweeting because it takes a lot of work and I don’t like to multi-task while watching something but since it was just listening, it wasnt too bad. Listening to limewire was pretty cool! It’s a very well done podcast … Continue reading "Live tweeting!"

Archives For this assignment, I had to choose a song, find a video for it, and then record a clip of why it means so much for me. It was a toss up for me between “Drink a Beer” by Luke Bryan and “You Should be Here” by Cole Swindell. They honestly both mean a lot to me but for the same reasons. In the end, I chose “Drink a Beer” by Luke Bryan because it resonated just a little bit more to me. For those who haven’t heard the song or who aren’t country music fans, it’s a beautiful […]

Archives For this assignment, I had to take sound clips from throughout my day and combine them into one long clip. My family went snowboarding last weekend at Wintergreen Resort and I thought that would be a fun time to take the recordings. I don’t actually have a voice recorder or anything so I ended up recording the sounds as videos on my iPhone. Then, I used audacity to upload them and combine them together. I actually had to download an Audacity add-on in order to use the sound from the videos so that was an extra step. Once I […]

I really like the “Moon Graffiti” podcasts. While I was listening I could make out all the sounds that was in it. The sounds were so real that I could close my eyes and I could see the astronauts and their struggles on the moon. It is crazy how they made a separate letter in […]

I decided to do the Music Mash Assignment that was to take two or more songs that are similar and mash them together into a conversation. I decided to do a conversation between Adele and Taylor Swift. So a little bit of background into this conversation is that adele is pretty obsessive and really wants … Continue reading "We are never getting back together"

Halfway through the week and I have gotten through most of the assignments. This week has been a real challenge learning the basics with audacity which the only other experience I previously had was in Spanish 101 back in high school recording my voice. All of the extra additional opportunities of layering sounds I didn’t … Continue reading Week 5 Summary

To start off the week I downloaded Audacity and the other software needed to do audio this week. I messed around with it for a little to get comfortable. In the past I had used it in some of my high school Spanish classes. Then I started listening to the audio file called Moon Graffiti. …

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I’ve been having some trouble thinking of specific ideas for a secret agent themed radio show. I was thinking maybe a talk show kinda style or a “ask ____” style show where “listeners” could call in with advice on how and our secret agent crew could give them tips on how to solve all of …

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When I was flipping through the Assignment bank and came across Movie Voice Machines I got pretty excited. It was 3 stars. It immediately reminded me of a scene in the tv show Futurama. The basic premise was that one character Bender left his roommate Fry on another planet but did not want to get […]