This assignment is related to our class theme, the 80’s.

Can anyone guess the original 80’s song this is?

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I thought this would be a fun activity to do, so I decided I wanted to do this assignment. It is always fun playing with the clips and changing their original sounds. Sometimes, I can hear something within the completely mayhem after the clip’s been edited, and it’s one of the coolest and strangest things ever. I think it’s so cool how with a couple clicks, anyone can change the sound.

When looking for sounds, I couldn’t find anything I wanted to use. I then randomly decided to search for “bucket.” I don’t know why, but it really was something I wanted to look for. And by the second page, I realized why. I don’t know why but when I found this clip, I knew it was the one. It just resonated with me. Like it was meant to be a part this my wonderful assignment.

I used this clip, but I didn’t know how to use the effects on Audacity very well. So I asked my wiz suit-mate for advise. All she said is, “Use wahwah. Have fun with it.” I was severely confused. Then after selecting, when all the aspects of wahwah popped up, I was even more confused. Instead of learning what each part means, I did what I do best: create mayhem out of serenity. So that’s what I did.

I moved every single bar around and then just applied it, and this is what came out. I think it’s absolutely hilarious how with only one effect, I created something COMPLETELY different than what was originally recorded. I really liked the product of this assignment, and I hope you do too!

Side note: I did delete the end of the clip because of after using the wahwah effect, it was silence for like 2-ish seconds.

Description: “Make Noise!! The title is pretty self explanitory. Take a recognizable song or sound, and then turn it into a completely unrecognizable sound. For example, take a dog barking and make it sound like tv static. This can be accomplished using any DAW (digital audio workspace, for those unaware) or some online audio editor.”

This is the original link to the assignment. I chose a song from freesounds.org and dowloaded and brought it into Audacity. I messed with the effects. I used fade out at the end, echo, phaser, base adjuster. The song does not sound the same. I had fun with this project!

In another instant classic audio assignment, the goal is to take a simple everyday noise and make it not so “simple” and “everyday”. My mind couldn’t really grasp both sides at once for something that could turn into something else, so I left it up to fate. I look up some simple sounds you may hear and ended up with a squeaky door. After finding a starting point, my brain kick into instant decision mode and came to a conclusion. You guessed it, velociraptor. I increased the pitch, amplified the sound, and distorted the ending to bring you straight through that squeaky door and into the prehistoric era. I play the door squeaking twice before the alteration, just so you can get a feel for the sound.

This is the Make Noise From a Normal Sample assignment worth 3 stars. This required me to find a song or sound and remix it to the point where it is nothing like it’s original sound. For this assignment, I decided I really wanted to use the sound from Naruto when a justu is preformed. This sound is very cool by itself and it was difficult to try to decide how to remix it and change it up to make it absolutely different.

I already had an mp3 of the sound on my phone from many months ago so adding it to audacity wasn’t difficult. However, I still have literally no experience with sound mixing and the little I did know, I tried to do what I could!

My general method was to select the entire audio wave and go to the effect tab at the top. Here, there were many different from changing the speed, tone, reversing the audio, fading in and out and much more. For my audio , I had first reversed it. Simple and easy, I made the audio play in reverse. I also thought an echo would be great. But to do this, I to adjust two separate delays that controlled when the audio would repeat itself, causing the echo. I did adjust this a bit until I was satisfied, then I thought the audio wasn’t loud enough. So I attempted to make it a bit louder by going to the amplified effect and didn’t mess with any of these numbers. Finally, I thought that playing the sound for longer would drag out the audio, causing it to have a deeper tone. So I went to the change speed effect and dragged the slider to the left until the audio was a bit longer than eight seconds.

After all of my edits, I uploaded it to SoundCloud easily enough. However, I didn’t really enjoy the process of editing the audio file. I guess it’s more because I have no idea what to do or how to do it. Telling a story in a previous assignment felt more enjoyable because I felt much more in control of what I was producing and knew more or less, what the finished product would be. In the end, I would need more practice and time to learn what certain affects do and how they’d affect my audio.

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!

The instructions for the “Make Noise From a Normal Sample” assignment were to “Make Noise!! The title is pretty self explanatory. Take a recognizable song or sound, and then turn it into a completely unrecognizable sound. For example, take a dog barking and make it sound like tv static. This can be accomplished using any DAW (digital audio workspace, for those unaware) or some online audio editor.”

First, I went to http://freesound.org and found an audio clip to use. I chose this sound of a ticking clock. Then I uploaded the clip to Audacity and experimented with it! There were lots of different options to change it around. This was a great assignment to help me learn how to navigate Audacity and explore my options for future assignments. My final product is below. I think it ended up sounding kind of like the ocean combined with some weird scary sound from a movie. It definitely sounds nothing like the original clip!

For my second audio assignment this week I decided to do a two star assignment called make noise from a normal sample. This assignment asked that…

Make Noise!! The title is pretty self explanitory. Take a recognizable song or sound, and then turn it into a completely unrecognizable sound. For example, take a dog barking and make it sound like tv static. This can be accomplished using any DAW (digital audio workspace, for those unaware) or some online audio editor.

Once I grasped an understanding of what this assignment was asking I decided to create a sound called home appliances. While this assignment says to use a recognizable sound and make it unrecognizable, I decided to take various recognizable sounds and combine them to make one big unrecognizable sound. That being said I recorded ten different “house appliances” and combined them into a one minute track. While making one thing unrecognizable is cool, I felt combining various sounds would make for something more interesting and would add variety to my assignment.

The ten sounds I initially recorded were; a toilet flushing, a shower running, a pen clicking, a tv playing in the distance, the garbage disposal running, a taser going off, someone coughing, writing on a chalk wall, a chair being dragged, and a fan buzzing. I recorded just a couple seconds of each making it so that each sound was recognizable. Once I had my ten sounds I imported them into the application Foundations of Music Technology (FMT). I am familiar with this platform because of the music technology class I took last semester. In my previous assignment I referenced how that class has helped me partake in these assignments. By using this workspace I was able to pull up all ten of my sounds at once. From there I just hit record on FMT and played each sound at the same time while for a minute I adjusted their pitch, tone, etc. By adjusting these elements I ultimately changed each sound drastically. Likewise by having them all play at once it allowed for them to sound unlike themselves.

Once I completed creating my audio I saved it as a .mp3 and uploaded it to Soundcloud.

I had fun playing with this activity, I truly felt like a little kid messing around. I believe what was so enjoyable with this assignment was that I had free range to do whatever I wanted. Ultimately I just had to make something recognizable unrecognizable. With that I certainly felt like I accomplished the task asked of me.

Storytelling is the basis of this course and each week we discuss various ways to tell stories. Audio is a great way to tell stories, it allows those to imagine what is being played. Often we forget the power in simply listening. By listening to the one minute audio clip I created, listeners are left with imaging their own story. While my intended story is to portray a jumbled mess of unrecognizable house hold appliances, the story itself is certainly left up for interpretation.