For this assignment, I decided to tell the story of my birth. The story of my poor mother trying to push my fat yet tiny body out of her is a family favorite and a definite conversation starter.

I didn’t just want to tell the story to a mic, so I decided to present it as a sort of “Breaking News” story. I wanted it to sound like you were listening to the News in the morning as a background noise then heard this story and started paying attention.

I had a lot of fun with this project and messing around with Audacity. At times it was frustrating as I didn’t quickly understand all of the functions, but after reading the manual I was fine. I used sound effects from freesounds.org and soundbible.com.

Here is a picture of me at one month. Just look at those cheeks and full fro that I’m rockin’.

Well, what i was trying to get out of this is an understanding on how to use Audacity, to have fun doing so, and to learn a new audio software so not only have I used Pro Tools….I have Audacity under my belt as well. The idea here was to create a Public Service Announcement about a subject my persona, The Malkavian Gamer, feels passionately about in this case it’s the rights of his fellow psychopaths at the local asylum…I tell you what I feel sorry for Mr.Resident Physician, but then again he really should know better than to mistreat his patients…..Ha ha ha. At any rate I had a lot of fun with this assignment and can’t wait for the next one! Excelsior!

I chose to read lyrics from a song called Trillium.I helped write the song with the band Motae a few years ago. I felt that using some sort of poetry to go along with one of my digital paintings would have a nice effect. Having words to go along with an artist vision is always interesting and may give you more insight into what the artist may have been thinking during the process. I figured what better than to merge a landscape visual with some landscape inspired imagery. The song is about are relationship with nature, and how small we really are in the grand scheme of things. The picture I used is one of my personal digital paintings. Art and music are what move me through life and I feel combining the two is really a beautiful thing. I liked the simplicity of the audacity program, even for a technical failure such as myself it was fairly straightforward to navigate.

To create this recording I fed Aesops “A Bald Knight” into a text to speech editor. From there I brought that file into Ableton Live. In Live I first applied Waves Rverb followed by Lives bit crusher. The signal was then sent into Waves Metaflange and H-Delay. The dry wet of the delay was modulated from 0 to 100% for the last word of the recording were the length of the reverb was also increased. I also applied some moderate time wapring throughout.

The idea for this project came to me when my brother and I were up in the woods hiking the other day. I was trying to think of something I could incorporate the sounds of nature and being in the forest into to make some kind of story. And then it hit me! The area we were in has actually been the supposed area of Sasquatch sightings before. After I decided I wanted it to be about Bigfoot, I began thinking about how I could turn it into a story. I had originally just thought of having the entire thing be artificial sounds for Bigfoot walking through the forest but then I thought it would be more intense to have it be an encounter and then chase theme.

Basically the only audio I recorded was my own voice and my brothers voice. The background sounds (birds chirping, footsteps, and growls) I found from “freesound.org”. When all put together I thought it all blended and flowed pretty well.

Hope you guys enjoy!

Had a really tough time coming up with an idea but thanks to a quick viewing of Empire Strikes Back over the weekend, I found some good inspiration! I had a hard time trying to work with Audacity as I couldn’t get it to open on the iMac in class and also couldn’t get it to open on my own computer at home. So I went with my old roots and created a mix in Garageband. I found all my sound clips at media college.com as well as freesoundeffects.com

Really wish I could’ve found a voice generator that was actually legit enough to use but had no luck. Hope you enjoyed!

//Travis//

This was originally part of a soundtrack to an animated mini series called “Over the Garden Wall” I had done my own reinterpretation of it by using audio from a YouTube clip of a piano player’s tune, who “played-by-ear” to get the sound to match the original. Along with my attempt at singing the melody. I was very captivated by the show for it’s use of music and animation.      – Derek Watson

I was trying to imitate the scene in Ace Ventura where he meditates and transcends reality so he can travel to a temple and solve his case. Tried to learn how to use reverberation to give the sounds much more echo and depth. So your mind can go into the sounds and be moved by them. These sounds have been shown to put you in a trance state which is why monks and generally people who meditate use chants. The deep sounds you can make with your voice can relax you and vibrate your body and soul to transcendence.

Think I still have more work to do to make a track that does this, but it’s a start. I enjoyed playing around with the echoes, reverbs, and delays. I learned how to move tracks around the timeline freely, use the envelope tool to manipulate the volume level at certain points in the track, and how to use all those cool effects! Looking forward to editing audio more in the future.

With this audio recording, I was trying to accomplish telling an old fable with a sense of mystery and whimsical story telling. I added some sound effects which i downloaded from freesound.org. I downloaded a scary horrifying sound for when the boy meets the wolf, and a flute playing for when the wolf plays for the boy. I really liked this story. I liked how the boy knew he was probably going to die, so he asked to dance. It was his dying wish. I’m not sure if he knew the other dogs would come and scare off the wolf, but it was a clever trick. Also the wolf became aware of his actions and he got what he deserved. He regretted playing for the boy.

I was trying to imitate the scene in Ace Ventura where he meditates and transcends reality so he can travel to a temple and solve his case. Tried to learn how to use reverberation to give the sounds much more echo and depth. So your mind can go into the sounds and be moved by them. These sounds have been shown to put you in a trance state which is why monks and generally people who meditate use chants. The deep sounds you can make with your voice can relax you and vibrate your body and soul to transcendence.

Think I still have more work to do to make a track that does this, but it’s a start. I enjoyed playing around with the echoes, reverbs, and delays. I learned how to move tracks around the timeline freely, use the envelope tool to manipulate the volume level at certain points in the track, and how to use all those cool effects! Looking forward to editing audio more in the future.