For this 4.5 star assignment, I had to create a mixtape of songs. I chose to do this for our hero from the sound effect story. His music needed to be epic, telling that he is a hero worthy of being known. What had he done to earn his fame? Slayed monsters, saved princesses, or is his story one that is a little darker? A little more real. Human struggle tends to turn men into monsters, will our hero turn into a monster or continue to slay them? Let’s take a look at the songs.

I chose Ken Ken Ashcorp’s Ryder or Riot as the first song. It’s always had a fast paced feeling of “I can take on the world” just like our new hero feels.

Next is Glory and Gore by Lorde a song about exactly what it sounds, our hero makes a name as someone who can handle difficult situations that others would run from.

Third, we have some instrumental battle music with Incubus’ 1st Movement of the Odyssey, for all the times things start to kick off.

Fourth on the list is Breaking Benjamin’s Breakdown as our hero finds some of his ideals of the world broken and is thrust into a world a little darker and a lot more dangerous than he previously knew.

This new knowledge sends him to a dark place and he starts doing some things he’s not entirely sure are heroic, in our fifth entry we have Champion Sound by Ill Factor with its heavy beat.

Sixth is Dorothy with Wicked Ones and our hero meets up with some dangerous folks, but for good causes.

Our penultimate song is Human by Rag’nBone as the hero realizes that the world isn’t some ideal but that’s okay as he’s only human and he can only do so much.

Finally, we get to Hercules by Sara Bareilles and our hero sees that the world doesn’t have heroes to come save everyone and that more often then not you need to be your own hero, your own Hercules.

Our hero stays a man and not a monster, albeit with a little darker view of the world and how it operates. He’s made some friends along the way, not all nice people but not everyone is.

Assemblying this playlist was quite fun for me. I just thought about the story this adventurer would have. Where he would go and what he would do. From there, I went to youtube to find songs to fit with the flow of the story. I knew pretty much most of the songs that I wanted and so I added them all together and started bullet pointing his adventures. I hope you all enjoy.

The Pink Bond, or the James Panther?

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So for this, I thought it would be fun to pick the two most cliche spy theme songs: James Bond and Pink Panther. Both had very similar sounds, which made them blend together pretty well. The two both have jazzy-sounding music, with the Bond one had a much higher temp and the Pink Panther being much more mellow and smooth. I think this has potential to be Our theme song for our radio show.

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For this assignment, we had to pick a song, take the lyrics out, and record a short (30 seconds or less) audio clip. The clip needed to be enough that people would be able to guess the song from it. I’ll be honest, a big part of why I chose this particular assignment is because it seemed like one of the few in this category that I was capable of doing. Not to give any hints, but I also thought it would be a good assignment to use to tie in the “mission106” theme!

The hardest part was trying to pick a song! Once I decided on the theme, it wasn’t too bad. I chose my song and proceeded to try and find an instrumental version on  YouTube(I’m sure there is a way to simply removes the words from the actual song but I’m just not that tech savvy!).

I ended up pulling the track up on my phone and playing it while I used SoundCloud on my computer to record the clip. I did end up recording a full 30 seconds because once I started it, I realized it might be a hard one to guess if you’ve never seen the movie that made it popular. In the end, I think it came out pretty well.

Here’s the finished product!

For this assignment, you have to find your theme song. I decided that instead of doing mine, I would find Marlene her own song! I chose this song because it starts off kind of dark and mysterious and then gets fast paced, which is what Marlene’s life is doing now. When I introduced her, I mentioned that she works in a saloon and all that and alluded to something going on behind the scenes, but didn’t specify what. The plot thickened some in the sound effects story, so I thought a theme that followed these trends was only fitting. I used Audacity and added the violin to the song (from that free sound website) and played around a little with the guitar later on, but I thought for the most part, the theme was pretty spot on. Enjoy!

This audio assignment was worth three and a half stars contributing to the total 8 stars worth of audio assignments we had to complete this week. I chose to complete this assignment because I thought it seemed like a pretty fun idea. When songs come on the radio I like to guess what their title could be. So, I thought it would be extra challenging if someone had to guess a song if it was playing in reverse.

In order to complete this assignment I used the audio editing software called audacity. I imported the song I had chosen. I then used the select tool to highlight the file. Once the file was highlighted I was able to apply certain effects to make the song reversed. I was surprised at how different the song sounds in reverse. I found this assignment to be very useful because it allowed me to continue to work with audacity and learn how to create new and different effects.

Here are my three clues to this song:
1. It was the theme song for a major sporting event held in 2010.
2. It is a pop song.
3. It is a blend of Colombian rhythm and traditional African music

So here it is! Good luck!