You’ve heard Carl Sagan. You’ve heard Bed Intruder. You’ve even heard Gardner Campbell autotuned. Now it’s your turn. Take something not typically musical and autotune it.
Link to assignment page: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/autotune-something/
I did Rod Serling, the host of the Twilight Zone. Enjoy!
You’ve heard Carl Sagan. You’ve heard Bed Intruder. You’ve even heard Gardner Campbell autotuned. Now it’s your turn. Take something not typically musical and autotune it.
Link to assignment page: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/autotune-something/
I did Rod Serling, the host of the Twilight Zone. Enjoy!
I have listened to autotuned sounds many times before, I wanted to do it. Therefore I decided to do this assignment; to do this project I first saw a tutorial in YouTube. Here is the link to it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx97oLyph4M&feature=related
I then used Audacity to record my voice and auto tune it, I first record my voice and then I changed its tempo, speed, and pitch from “effect tool”. I also used the repeated tool to make some of my words repeated. I was surprised that after changing the musical characteristics my voice completely changed to a male voice. I really enjoyed doing this project; it was easy and fun to do.
Here it is! I learned how to use autotune in Garage Band by watching this tutorial. It’s not perfect, and I may have overdone the effects, making the words somewhat hard to understand, but I think it’s not bad for a beginner. Ha! (but don’t quote me on that.)
I cut, copied, and pasted the original clip here, there, and everywhere and played around with various effects to make the following:
I found a clip to use for this from the video of Jim Groom’s recent guest speech at Kansas State University. 
Here’s the original clip I recorded from the video using the internal mic on my computer:
Original clip by linda3dots
I honestly cannot explain the process, because it was very, VERY messy and tedious. But this is how my file in Garage Band looked when I got done:
For my last two audio assignments I decided to do “Autotune Something” and “Make ‘em Laugh”. For my “Autotune Something” I decided to try and autotune a segment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have A Dream Speech”. I hope this isn’t frowned upon by most people since this speech was such an influential part in the civil rights movement and is still a big part of American society today. I just thought it would be interesting to see what it would turn out like, and I think it sounds pretty cool. I autotuned it using garageband and I got the original speech off of archive.org. For the other assignment entitled make them laugh, I looked up a joke about American tourists and had one of my friends read it for me in Spanish. I got the joke off of jokesaboutamericans.com and the original joke is
“How many American tourists does it take to change a light bulb?
Fifteen. Five to figure out how much the bulb costs in the local currency, four to comment on “how funny-looking” local lightbulbs are, three to hire a local person to change the bulb, two to take pictures, and one to buy postcards in case the pictures don’t come out.”
Hope you guys enjoy them!
PS. I still need a group for the ds106 Radio Show assignment so if anyone else needs a second or a third person for their group I’d be glad to join!
I Had A Dream Auto Tune by awhitfield21
For the third audio experiment I decided to play with the effects since the other two didn’t really allow for that much experimentation. I recorded someone singing this rhyme and then I played with the pitch and the pace which resulted in the lovely chimpmunck sounding thing. I added other effects but the pitch and the pace were the most noticeable changes that I could find.
