_cokwr: You may have seen parodies in which the camera cuts between an interviewee in a real interview and a fake interviewer, for example The Soup's interview with Miley Cyrus about being a vampire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldNycG-IATY). The nice thing about doing this with audio rather than video is that you're not restricted to using responses from a single interview since you don't have to worry about making it look real. Record yourself asking questions to someone famous, then use audio clips of the celebrity from real interviews as the responses., _cpzh4: Audio, _chk2m: Matt Martin, _ciyn3: 95, _ckd7g: AudioAssignments95, _clrrx: AudioAssignments, _cztg3: AudioTutorials95

_cokwr: Create a 2 minute audio story inspired by the "My Life is True" series produced by KQED of Northern California. KQED works with people "to explain, in their own words, a significant moment or stubborn problem." Work with a friend or tell a story about yourself that describes such a moment or problem. Be sure to keep it at two minutes or less! Thanks to GNA Garcia for posting a link to this awesome site on Twitter and inspiring assignment ideas for DS106., _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: http://www.mylifeistrue.org/, _chk2m: Michael Branson Smith, _ciyn3: 184, _ckd7g: AudioAssignments184, _clrrx: AudioAssignments, _cztg3: AudioTutorials184

_cokwr: For this audio assignment, pretend that you are three to four persons having a regular conversation. Pick any scenario that you are comfortable with but make it convincing that there are different people within the conversation. ie: at the dinner table you have a little girl, a hick father, with an Asian mother talking to each other: create those voices. and HAVE FUN with it!, _cpzh4: Audio, _chk2m: anagahama, _ciyn3: 91, _ckd7g: AudioAssignments91, _clrrx: AudioAssignments, _cztg3: AudioTutorials91

_cokwr: Take six very short fragments (less than one second each) from six different songs and ensemble them into a single piece. Expect others to guess which six songs you have used. Basic rules: 1) do not repeat songs 2) do not use covers (unless the cover is much better than the original, sh*t happens) 3) John Cage's 4'33'' is not a song!!! , _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxxEab7nHfE, _chk2m: procsilas, _ciyn3: 89, _ckd7g: AudioAssignments89, _clrrx: AudioAssignments, _cztg3: AudioTutorials89

_cokwr: Take one open ended question. Ask a bunch of people. Mix and compile. This could be video or audio only. Example here., _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: http://fiftypeopleonequestion.com/films/3-brooklyn-ny, _chk2m: Tom, _ciyn3: 85, _ckd7g: AudioAssignments85, _clrrx: AudioAssignments, _cztg3: AudioTutorials85

_cokwr: Record yourself reading from a diary/journal/letter you wrote when you were a teenager. Try to capture the emotion and angst of the moment. Add music and sound effects, as appropriate. (Check out one of the TAL segements in the example for an idea of how this might sound.), _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/36/letters, _chk2m: Martha Burtis, _ciyn3: 84, _ckd7g: AudioAssignments84, _clrrx: AudioAssignments, _cztg3: AudioTutorials84

_cokwr: This is a variation off of AudioAssignments70: Sound Effects Story, except the main goal of this assignment is to create a story using only sounds (no words) found on the Internet that tells the story of a dream using audio. Restrictions: use only sounds from freesound.org and a max of 2 minutes. Please remember to credit those who you have sampled. Also, please refrain from having 6+ "layers" in a dream. We all know from watching Inception that by that time, you're way beyond the normal dreaming mind constructs and into the subconscious., _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: http://nogoodadvice.somethingkindaooooh.com/2011/02/18/ds106-fo-lyfe-track-1/, _chk2m: Jordan, Andrew, & Colleen (Krollinghachy), _ciyn3: 73, _ckd7g: AudioAssignments73, _clrrx: AudioAssignments, _cztg3: AudioTutorials73

_cokwr: Take a movie's soundtrack and reduce it into an under-10 minute radio show e.g. http://lisahistoryds106.posterous.com/three-days-of-the-condor, _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: http://lisahistoryds106.posterous.com/three-days-of-the-condor, _chk2m: Lisa M Lane, _ciyn3: 83, _ckd7g: AudioAssignments83, _clrrx: AudioAssignments, _cztg3: AudioTutorials83

_cokwr: Solicit an uninteresting story from a family member or friend. It is your task to try and make the anecdote as interesting for your listener as possible. When you post your story, reflect on the (un)interestingness of the story and why you believe it actually was worth telling. In other words, you are to record an uninteresting story and do everything in your power to make it interesting. , _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/400/stories-pitched-by-our-parents, _chk2m: Jim Groom (via Martha), _ciyn3: 69, _ckd7g: AudioAssignments69, _clrrx: AudioAssignments, _cztg3: AudioTutorials69