Audio week was quite the experience. Trial and error became the name of the game for me. Garageband made me nervous, especially because Audacity was so heavily suggested, and no one else used Garageband! Although this week was a lot of listening, I enjoyed all the different perspectives and stories I heard. This week was …

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Comments of Week 3 Guess who knows how to make comments on things? This little alien that is me. Yes, I am pretty sure this week is Mass Effect themed. I only played it once this week, and I’ve only finished the first one. (Got really scared to do the Suicide Mission and still haven’t […]

https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-mitchell-1/the-truth-moon-graffiti In this soundcloud video, it is very erie and somewhat disturbing in the sense that this was very much something that could have taken place. There is a lot of background noise and transitioning done. They have a lot of sound effects added to make this scene even more... Read more"Moon Graffiti"

Summary of TED Radio Hour and ScottLo. For the ScottLo Episodes, I listened to the first one. At first, I thought this would be a parody of some sort as he began, especially with how bored and unsure he sounded. In comparison to what Ida Glass talks about, I felt as if he did not have […]

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This week was a learning experience for me, for sure. I got into the nitty gritty with Garageband, and now realize Audacity was probably a better choice. Garageband didn’t have a lot of editing tools that Audacity seemed to have, and this deterred me from some projects I was drawn to. Although I may have …

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The goal of this assignment was to tell a story using nothing but sound effects. I chose to tell the story of someone going to the beach on the first day of a vacation. The story starts with the person taking off in an airplane to head to their destination. Then the first thing they …

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This week’s final Daily Create is all about logical fallacies. I jumped on “bandwagon” (har har har) and chose to use critically endangered animals as the subjects. It’s hard to say “everyone is doing it” when there aren’t a lot of people in the first place. Also, that’s just not a good reason to explain … Continue reading Logical fallacies – but maybe the hat really is cool.

Commuter Carmen has the cushiest job in radio. She gets to complain, and she gets to do it twice a week! Of course, she has to say something nice about the place she’s complaining about before she starts going off. Sometimes I wonder how she can come up with the nice things to say. It … Continue reading Dream job: complaining about parking to a captive audience

Looking for this song about peace took longer than it should have. My tastes in music tend to not include songs that would be about peace.   A little kindness and humbleness couldn’t hurt either. #ds106 #tdc1979 https://t.co/9zT7XAjDX2 — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 11, 2017

Take a song and some speech and remix both. Make it meaningful and give it a message. Souncloud I think every woman I know has fallen victim to gender inequality, whether that be a cat-call, unequal pay or respect in the work place, or much worse. It is time that everyone comes together to better …

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Today’s daily create reminded me so much of my last assignment. I am all for peace in the world (who isn’t?) and this playlist is a great idea to spread a little more joy around! I was originally going to choose Imagine by John Lennon because it was fresh in my mind from my other …

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This 4 1/2 star assignment was actually relatively straight forward and fun. The most difficult part was writing out a quick script and then recording it using Audacity. I decided that there was no point in doing two separate tracks since the natural flow of […]

This 1 1/2 star assignment was fun as well as eye opening. My two resources were the online McDonald’s menu and Audacity. After going to the McDonald’s website and picking out three items I would never order, I decided to change the order around. My […]

I mentioned in my about me page that I like cartoons… and one of the cartoons that I’m crazy about (like a lot of other people right now) is Steven Universe. I can’t help it. I love the songs, the gems, the fusions, and the neverending possibilities for conspiracy theories. One question gets answered and … Continue reading You guys sound a little off

To make this sound bite I use my iPhone’s voice memo application. I played the various recordings into the microphone I have attached my computer and then manipulated each of the recordings using my new best friend, Audacity. This recording starts with my daily 6 […]

Daily Create #11   It was for love and bloody peace. It was a fabulous time. I even get excited now when I realize that’s what it’s for: peace and love, people putting flowers in guns. –Ringo Have you ever thought of peace and wondered what songs best portray it? The quote above is what Read More

Imagine – The Beatles – John Lennon https://youtu.be/DCX3ZNDZAwY  via @YouTube @ds106dc #tdc1979

Today’s daily create asks for us to contribute to a peace playlist. I tried to think of peace songs that hadn’t been submitted already, but came up short. Then I realized that I had lots of ideas for songs that were narrations of moments of personal peace – something I think is just as important. … Continue reading Peace on a small scale

Summary of Ira Glass’s Storytelling Parts 1 & 2 and Jad Abumrad on “How Radio Creates Empathy”. As a person who went through four years of writing interesting fictional and nonfictional stories, I know exactly what Ira Glass begins talking about. That’s the first lesson that you learn when writing, “show don’t tell”, “start with the […]

If you slow the song down by 800%, you’ll hear a secret message. Oddly enough, the song is Icelandic pop sensation BABBA’s Disc– I mean, Swedish supergroup ABBA’s Dancing Queen. I’ve always been a big fan of hidden messages. When I was a kid, I remember finding out about backmasking: playing records backward. Hearing Stairway … Continue reading Rumor has it, if you slow the song down…

This 3 1/2 star sign assignment provided me with the opportunity to take an imaginary round trip excursion to the grocery store in my Land Rover. In preparation for my excursion I spent a few hours getting familiar with Audacity. One of the hints given […]

In the Ted Hour talk, they talk about success in radio. In the example provided on the page, it is written notice when the music just stops. It surely makes a big difference, it takes away from the moment, but forces you to put a greater amount of attention on... Read more"Ted Radio Hour and Scott Lo Series Summaries"

A Weird Moment – Not An Assignment For some reason, gifs on my site stopped working. So I decided to go investigate. Let’s take the example below. See how it’s not moving? So first, we go and edit the gif. Click the button and notice that the image is in the Medium size. Yeah, it’s […]

Daily Create Week 3 – # 4 Hashtag Peace Music Playlist  #ds106 #tdc1979 #ds106dc It’s the only one I could think of. I’ve heard it a billion times. https://t.co/bX9tyIi8bL ☮️ — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 10, 2017 http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1979/ I mean, I was surprised this wasn’t the first one everyone thought of. I’ve heard it so many […]

I just completed listening to “Moon Graffiti”. Wow, what a powerful story. Shutting my eyes and allowing my sense of hearing to take over, I was transported back to that event in July 1969. For me this event was real. My parents and I were […]

It’d been a long day full of fun outdoorsiness. We set up camp by the river, as we usually do. It was a long walk from the park’s welcome center, carrying all our gear and swatting mosquitos away for what felt like 600 years, but we finally made it to our favorite site in the … Continue reading What’s the scariest part about camping?

Call me optimistic, but I think they are summoning a creature similar to a butterfly to bring hope and beauty to the land. #tdc1978 @ds106dc

Audio #4: Onomatopoeia! Rating: ☆☆ Who doesn’t love a good  joke combined with an onomatopeia? I know I do! And if you do too then you’ll absolutely love doing this assignment! This project involves finding a joke, riddle, etc. and pairing that joke with sounds to fill the background. The hardest part was finding the perfect Read More

Daily Create #10 This daily create allowed us to create our own talking Obama! I used the website provided to make the following video. I wanted my message from Obama to feel personal as if he is in our DS106 class. So I thought to myself, “what are key Obama phrases or gestures that everyone Read More