Another assignment that I created from the assignment bank was called “Auditory Hell”. This challenged us to create a sound involving multiple of our worst favorite sounds. I also used garage band for this because it was easier to mash together all of the sound effects. This was hard for me because I literally cringed at every single sound. For this I used 4 different sounds: Nails on a chalkboard, Aggressive Chewing, Snoring, and an Alarm Clock. I thought that we could use this assignment within our radio show for an audience check. What I mean by that is to make sure the audience is still listening and they may tweet in their answer of which of the 4 sounds is the absolute worst.

I decided to compile an MP3 of my favorite sounds for one of my assignments this week. This assignment definitely took some thought because when I think of sounds I enjoy, I immediately think of songs or tiktok sounds. (lol) But, I wanted to think hard about it and pick sounds that I enjoy and wouldn’t think of until I heard them. After I thought about this for a couple days, I finally had decided what sounds I would use.

Below is a list of the sounds and why I chose them:

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My favorite movie, Saving Private Ryan, gave me the perfect opportunity to recreate a short movie only using sounds. I decided to use the Omaha Beach Scene!! Enjoy!

Honestly, I saw this assignment and thought to myself, “Oh this would be easy to do.” I completely forgot how the only things that makes me happy is rain, food, and my two pets. The only sound that actually makes me feel just as happy as it’s presence is rain. For the rest: food crunching sounds weird, my puppy barks like a maniac, and when my hamster is chewing on food, it sounds like bones breaking. So yeah, not something I like to hear all the time! So the question became, what would my other sounds be?

I know I really all the natural sounds, like things that come from nature. That has always been something that calms me down even in my most stressful of times. I remember I used to fall asleep to ambient noise for months because of how calming it was, and it was the best thing to wake up to. So I found an audio clip of some ambient noise from outside with crickets, a fire pit doing it’s thing, and of rain and thunder (which I absolutely LOVE).

However, for my last sound, I picked something completely different. I decided to pick something I don’t normally listen to, but would love to hear regardless. And that was the ambiance of a synthesizer. It was honestly really nice to listen to, I thoroughly enjoyed the sound it made.

I then just put them all in Audacity, cut out parts of each sound so they were all roughly the same length, and made the beginning of each clip fade in and the end fade out. This wasn’t a difficult assignment to do, I feel that the most difficult part for me was finding and picking the sounds to be a part of this.

I hope you really like these sounds as much as I did!

Description: “To complete this assignment, pick 4-5 sounds that you enjoy hearing! Then, compile them into an audio file, and share!”

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For this assingment I had to record sound that I hear in my life on a regular basis. The first sound is my apartment door opening and hearing my roommate watching TV. The second sound is pages flipping in textbook and novels I have to read for my classes. The third sound is my personal favorite. Its my dog Scarlet snoring. Lastly, the fourth sound is typing. I spend a lot of time on my computer for classes as well as my jobs, so typing is a constant during my day.

My background noise came from Bensound. The hardest part of this assignment was figuring out what to include. There are constant noises going on around us, and its hard to pinpoint which ones are the most important to mention.

This assignment was a lot of fun I had to pick my favorite sounds and mash them up together to see what they made. I decided to pull in the 80’s theme here with my sounds. I included some engines that were from the 80’s and thought about what cities in different countries would sound like when before they became big cities so I was able to include different animal sounds as well.

I downloaded 5 sounds that make me feel good and put them into audacity edited them to fade in and out, silence different sections to give other sounds solos and mashed them all up together to come up with an about 30 second clip of pleasant 80’s sounds. The inspiration was definitely 80’s for me an thinking what kinds of things my parents heard growing up compared to what I knew growing up. This was a fun assignment that I enjoyed making and think I did a good job with because I am happy with how it turned out.

I was actually really excited about this assignment because I felt like it allowed me to learn more about Garageband, the app I am using for all audio assignments. For this 3.0-star assignment we were asked to
take a recognizable song or sound, and then turn it into a completely unrecognizable sound. Here is what I came up with, see if you can identify the original sound.

So were you able to figure it out? Well if you weren’t that’s good because the point was to make it unrecognizable! The original sound was actually two strokes on the guitar. I took the sound from Freesounds.org and then uploaded it to Garageband where I played around with the sound to make it distorted. Overall this assignment was kinda difficult to do because this was my first time really editing and playing around with a sound using Garageband, but I had a lot of fun creating different versions. Though, this one was my favorite.

Also, the story behind the picture on the soundcloud is something I recently did for another blog assignment in my digital arts class. I have been learning a ton about the digital world lately!