Category Archives: 2022 FALL

I Was Created Today

This project was a lot of fun! Coming up with the premise was fairly easy for me, I don’t know why but I thought it would be funny to have a little scribble/doodle come into consciousness, be forced to sing, and if they don’t they’ll be destroyed. While being confused along the way. The song “I Was Created Today,” ended up writing itself. 

Just sing about how confused the scribble/doodle is about the world!

I wish I knew how to play instruments or create instrumentals but I don’t know how to, yet, and the song had to be sung a cappella. Despite this, I still think the song came out fairly decent. In the future, I would love to take this audio, fix it up a bit, make it crisper, and animate it. Since that’s what I wanted to do originally. (Completely forgot this was an “audio” only project.) I’d also like to create a better “scribble” when it does become animated. 

After the first scribble gets shredded it was supposed to end there, but in a cruel twist, the “drawer,” created another “scribble” and instead of singing, it played an instrument. Which the “drawer” likes and the new scribble gets to live. Hurray?

By Kay

Audio project

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CRZXgnfKMtVp2p9Cg45VcPwdHBTN2Hr1/view?usp=drivesdk

this was a hard project to do because it got moved back to a later date and puss in boots was a longer than expected. So I tried to use audacity but it wouldn’t let me break up the story. I then switched over to garage band. An app that basically dose the same thing but also lets you make your own music. Like how your able to mix together different pre recorded songs or make your own.

For the music i used the erhu and the pipa from the world section. I chose these two instruments because they reminded me of fairy tale music like the ones you’d hear in the puss and boots movie. To start I made the erhu a little louder than the pipa, making the pipa like a backup singer of sorts. I then started to play with the different types of tempos for both that would fit the emotion of the scene I was going for. Once I got the melody that I wanted I recorded the erhu first switching tempos as needed and then did the same with the pipa. I tried to get sound effects but importing them into garageband had a paywall.

P4 Meanwhile

I chose to do the poem Meanwhile by Richard Siken. I wanted to do a poem because I feel like poems can be interpreted differently by everyone. I also like the calming nature of poetry and how they rhyme slightly. It was fun reciting this poem and adding the sounds that go along with it like the trees in the wind, and dogs barking. For music, I used a piece of soft piano music that feels very fitting to use for the poem.

I was initially stuck on what poem I was going to use for the project I stayed up really late just researching different authors, and recording different poems but they never felt right. I eventually found Richard Siken, he is a poet, painter, and filmmaker. I was immediately drawn to this poem because it feels as if it’s telling a story of how repeatable days could be, and how sometimes your routine never changes. Though at the end of the poem it seems like it is telling you to follow your dreams you say quietly.

by Liz

The Lion and The Mouse

For this assignment, I wanted to create a narration of a short Aesop’s Fable called “The Lion and the Mouse”. I had never heard of this Aesop’s Fable, so I decided to create an audio to learn about the story. I listened to the story with audio, researched what kind of mood the story should have, and chose the music I used for the background. For this assignment, I recorded it straight to my laptop.

I enjoyed this project. The stories were fun to read. I recorded it many times, trying to figure out how to make it easier to listen to. Finding sound effects was not too difficult for me. The sound effect I created is called “sleep. I chose this song because I think the image of fairy tales is often read when putting children to bed.

I found the song from a place called Ccmixter listed on Free Media Resources. The song was full and over 3 minutes long and also had a woman’s whispering voice in it. I wanted to keep the song alone so I cut out the whispers in places and narrowed it down to about a minute to fit my story. I think I found the perfect balance between narration and music. The hardest part for me was the narration. I am a learner of English, so I still have trouble with pronunciation and intonation, and the breaks between sentences were also difficult. The story I searched on the internet had an audio recording, so I listened to it and imitated it. I still need more practice, but I used the one that worked best out of the many recordings I made.

by Madoka Shimmyo

P4 – Noah

I chose to do something a little different and made a song. I just thought that it would be more interesting for me. Unfortunately, the project I spent most of my time on I didn’t end up liking very much, so I did this short freestyle like hour ago. I think this one turned out alright, and has much better harmonic elements than the first one. The song itself isn’t super complex. It mostly sentiments feelings of indifference and how hardship in your isn’t always soly one persons fault. I hope you enjoy!

by Noah Rislov

Static City

My goal with the Static City audio was to create something caught on the radio that wasn’t meant for us to be hearing—a sort of stray transmission that got snagged by someone idly fiddling with their clock radio that’s outdated by several years and has probably been chewed on by a dog. Any identifiable names have been drowned beneath static, and the subject of the announcement itself doesn’t entirely make sense. It’s understandable enough, sure, but it’s definitely not quite original to our world.

Overall, I’m decently pleased with how it all turned out. My biggest annoyance was keeping my speech audible; I’d liked to have had more interference and distortion, but figuring out how to accomplish that without making it needlessly difficult to understand ended up being too much for my very beginner-level skills at this point in time. It was enjoyable to work on Static City once I got over my voice and got better at using Audacity—don’t even ask how many times I looped things without meaning to. I’ve now got sound effect files scattered across my desktop that need to be cleaned up, so if you’ll excuse me, I should go take care of that.

By Kaitlyn Harper

P4: The Lion And The Gnat

I chose to do my audio assignment on the Aesop fable, “The Lion & The Gnat.” I chose to do my assignment on a fable because as a child my favorite stories were those retellings that were written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. For this project I wanted to pick a story that was fun to add sound effects to, was quick to read, and gave useful advice. In this story, the lion is irritated by the gnat, and in his attempt to harm the gnat, he harms himself. The gnat ultimately believes he is victorious over the lion who was unable to strike him, and in his bout of triumph, he allows his ego to bring his guard down and he flies into a spiders web and meets his own defeat. This tale gives us the advice to not allow our own pride to get to our heads, and take us off of our guard.

Overall, I had fun with this project and with finding background music and different sound effects that tied in with it well, and my goal was just to offer something fun to listen to.

By Ashley O’Connell

fifteen years.

For this project I wanted to create something cerebral while at the same time semi-autobiographical but also silly and bizarre. Essentially I wanted all flavors of ice cream on one cone. Conceptually I got the idea of doing this piece walking past an electrical pole on the side of the road, something about the sound of the traffic and the visual of the pole with its numbering system, which I had never glanced at or paid any attention to intrigued me. I had a vision of a character being sucked into another world via getting too close to the pole.

I modeled the story autobiographically after myself after I discovered international travel while studying at the University of Oregon, one which felt like an electric shock which transported me to other worlds. As for the actual sound production I used music and effects from my mixed media artist friend in Bangkok, Swordfish, who uses various made and found synthesizers to do similar work as the one I am presenting here. Also within the grooves of this particular audio realm I inserted various open source ambient and airport/airplane sounds in hopes of idiomatically sending the listener on a journey into a mystical sugary realm of bizarre offerings.

-danaan.