Today, on this beautiful sunday afternoon just before football got started, I began listening to #ds106radio!  Our awesome professor, Alan Levine (a.k.a. Cog Dog) was DJing this morning, and we had a brief conversation via the air waves and twitterverse … Continue reading →

My DS106 Radio bumper, this took me a while to even figure out what I was going to do. I listened to a lot of the ones which other ds106ers posted and got some ideas from that. I ended up just taking a song from iTunes  and recorded myself saying the DS106 Radio part. I had some fun with the the effects though it was pretty hard getting it to have the effect I wanted. I used Audacity but am a virgin to most all audio editing software so it was a lot of trial and error and I still didn’t end up with the effect I wanted. I tried everything I could … Continue reading →

This one was pretty fun, making a short audio clip telling a story in nothing but sound effects. I got all these effects from freesounds. I didn’t know what I was going to do at first but then I remembered doing the 5card draw story telling thin...

One of the audio assignments we had this week was to create a bumper for ds106radio.  I chose to add some background noise because I thought it would add a nice effect to the bumper.  The bumper is short and … Continue reading →

I listened to ds106 radio on Tuesday night with my fwenddd Enisa! It was an interesting experience. We used iTunes to listen to the radio and it was cool because it was just like a regular song on iTunes but … Continue reading →

Can you dig it? Can you dig it? Can you dig it? (YAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!) I tried tuning in several times this week but managed to miss all the live broadcasts but I would have to say that I did not mind listening to a hour of that great upbeat music… This last time that I tuned ...

What a strange thing to happen to a person, the lack or loss of words or language. Could you imagine if you didn’t know what to call the thing staring you in the face right now, if you didn’t know who/what/why you are? What would you call yourself, what would you call things, how would you know what was going on, how would see the world around you? In this segment of Radiolab they explore the area of Words, what they mean, how we use them, and how we relate them to each other. It was a very interesting thing and I really enjoyed listening and I would highly suggest … Continue reading →

I listened to The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar which I have to say was a very interesting story. I think it was very effective to tell the story in audio because I also read it in print and the story with the music and voice dynamics really brings it to life.  The producers used music ...

From listening to Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad I learned some key points on Audio Storytelling. Ira Glass states that the important thing is to understand the building blocks of a story.  Make it different from what you learned in high school.  There are two different building blocks the antidote (story in its purest form) ...

Listening to DS106 Radio was kind of a weird thing to do. I went on early in the week to check things out and managed to get on a page which played the broadcasts there wasn’t anything live going on at that time so I decided I’d wait till something came on. I finally saw a live broadcast going by @onepercentyello (her blog here). I figured I’d be able to just click the web site and pull up the broadcast but this wasn’t true, you have to download a file which plays (at least for me) on iTunes. I first thought that this was old broadcasts which they kept files of … Continue reading →

Oh dear. This assignment has been worrying me since I saw it this week. I’m not sure why, I was just worried I would make a geeky bumper. I think it kinda sounds like a “real” radio bumper, almost, so … Continue reading →

I’m honestly not sure how this turned out at all. The prompt seemed pretty simple, kinda. I’m just not sure my evil witch/female Voldemort story came through very well. In fact, I’m not sure mine is a good story at … Continue reading →

My friend Alex wanted to go to the beach this weekend but couldn’t so I made this for her to listen to so she could feel as if she was at the beach even though she was not. To create … Continue reading →

Like many of our ds106 assignments, I was very skeptical about the sound effect story assignment, but I ended up having a lot of fun with it! This assignment really made me feel so much more comfortable using audacity. I found all of my sound effects on freesound.org. I downloaded the sound effects in the ...

For this assignment, I decided to listen to This American Life’s Episode 275: Two Steps Back. What a GREAT story, it pulls you in and makes you FEEL this story. The producers used raw emotions, sound effects, layering of sounds with music in the background to convey the emotion toll of this story. This story tells the frustrations of this teacher and the pain the situation causes her and the students and community. The audio kept me attentive throughout the entire hour of the story. The producers put in background-music that helped you to sympathize with this heartbroken teacher. I never noticed before how much influence background music has on … Continue reading →

I really enjoyed the ds106 radio bumper assignment! Who knew creating a radio bumper could be so fun! I loved listening to all the sound effects on freesound.org. I was constantly changing my bumper when I came across a sound I liked more. I am finally getting the hang of Audacity, I think. I really ...

Yesterday was a lazy day for me so I booted up the old laptop and lay down on my bed. ds106radio was not working for me the night before so I had low hopes and expectations. Well, it worked. I listened on and off for about three hours marveling at the artists I had never ...

To start off DS106 Week 4 – Learning to Listen, we were asked to watch a series of videos (five to be exact) to get a feel of what’s expected for the week. You can find my blog post about these videos and my comments about audio storytelling in general, right here! (: The Summary of the radio story I listened to can be found here. I really enjoyed this task! (: My blog post about my first DS106Radio experience is posted here! (: A radio bumper proved to be the HARDEST task so far: And the background sound that I put behind it doesn’t seem to want to show … Continue reading →

I liked how the teller conveyed the story.  Using background noises made it seem as if the listener was actual present and could relate to the situation.  I thought it was cool how they varied the level of each characters … Continue reading →

This week I chose to listen to 3 radio drama broadcasts from The Truth. I listened to “Eat Cake,” “Lucy and the Bike Girl,” and “That’s Democracy.”  I have never listened to audio stories other than just audio books where someone is reading verbatim from the text. This was a very interesting experience that I ...