Create a Place
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For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org
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Prompt: For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org
I always say that water is my spirit animal. Yes, I know …
Create a Place: Coffee Shop
The prompt: create a space using only sound.
The most comfortable and relaxing place in the world is a coffee shop. The ambiance is perfect for work, reading, and meeting with friends. Not to mention, the amazing coffee and pastries.
I created the experience of a coffee shop from when …
DS Assignment bank: Create A Place
Under Water noises, could be used in a cheesy 1980’s music video intro…
Sounds of Space
I created an alien city using a combination of sound effects, I’m really happy with it!…
Where I’d Rather Be
I choose to do this visual assignment Create A Place, because I could really use a vacation right about now. I am sure that everyone can guess what location I was trying to mimic. My ideal vacation would be me laying on a beach somewhere (literally any beach I …
Where am I?
Directions: ” For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org “
Behind the Story:
Can you figure out where I am?
Narrating the Process: …
Creating a City
So, for my first post of week 5, I had said somethings that I now regret. I was struggling to get used to working with sound effects and putting all that together and was not pleased with my progress. Now that I’ve played around and gotten used to it, it’s …
The Place of Sounds
Though this is very similar to another assignment I did, I thought this would be fun to do because I could create a place and not a story. I wanted something to do with the 80’s so that it went with the theme of the semester, and when I asked …
D.C. Sounds
For this assignment, for 4 stars, I did the “Create a Place” audio assignment. We had to mashup a bunch of sounds in order to create a place. For mine, I wanted to choose D.C. because that’s where I spend a lot of time. For the audio, I included a …
Sounds of the Streets
The point of this assignment was to create a place using only sound effects. For this process, I went to FreeSounds which is a free-use platform with thousands of user generated sounds. My goal was to make the listener feel as if they were sitting on a bench by a …
Where Am I?
The “Create a Place” assignment was to “Create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc.”
I decided to create a farmyard scene. I used freesound.org to find lots of different sounds, such as a rooster, birds, …
Create A Place
So for this assignment I kind of twisted it a little and put my spin on it. We were tasked to create a place with sound, I created a place and a scene at the same time. My goal was to tell a story through the sound, it could be …
Week 7 Audio Assignments
All The Relaxation 2.5 https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/all-the-relaxation/
Create a Place 4 https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-place/
Emotions Through Sound 4 https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/emotions-through-sound/https://soundcloud.com/michael-brown-732410127/relaxing-sounds
(i had uploaded this to sound cloud and was immediately copyright claimed, i obtained all my audio from freesounds.org so i am disputing it, for now, here is the mp3
It had taken me …
Sites and Sounds of NYC
Being from NY I loved the idea of the assignment. The goal of the assignment was to create sounds that would match up with a city. I realized that I didn’t want to just create the sounds but I wanted to actually show what it was like to be in …
Farm House Noises
Create a Place (4 stars)
For this assignment it said to create a place by just using sounds. So what my process consisted of was first, going on to freesounds.org to search for sounds to try and create a place out of them. As I was searching through the first …
Welcome to…
For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org
Assignment Bank- Audio Assignments
Welcome to Jurassic Park! Cue the theme song. I decided to create the feeling that …
Create a Place
My final assignment for this week’s Audio Assignment component was using sounds to create a place. I decided to use sounds to make the listener feel as if they were at a basketball game. The sounds I used were from freesound.org except for the sound of the buzzer going off. …
Can You Guess Where You Are?
For this assignment we had to create a place by using only sound. I made the music a little louder so that you wouldn’t be able to guess so easily. I was inspired to make this place because I was at a more modern version of this place last night. …
Tounge Twisters!
Tounge twisters can be so hard! I think there are certain ones that are definitely easier, but if you try to do all of them as fast as possible, you will get tripped up for sure. I wanted to make sure I did a few because they are all relatively …
Gallapher into the night!
For the Create a Place assignment, I chose to use my character Gallapher that I created. This is her galloping off into the night!
…
City Street
Take a listen! Can you place this sound?
It is supposed to be what you can hear out of your bedroom window in a city. Car horns honking, people talking, an ambulance whirring by, and the rustle of people walking down the street.
This assignment was a little more difficult …
Calm Beach!
When I read the assignment from the bank for this week, I noticed the one that said create a place using sound. Of course, the first place I thought of was the beach. It was so easy to make such a calming noise. AND I got 4 stars from it! …
The City in Sounds
For this assignment, I put together different sound effects to illustrate the sound of a busy city. I used New York City as inspiration for this assignment. I downloaded the sound effects and put them together on Audacity. It was not difficult to do and I enjoyed putting it together.…
A Fragment of What World War Z Sounded Like
I was going to do a visual assignment, but the audio assignment Create A Place was just too interesting to NOT do.
I flipped through my copy of World War Z, trying to find the best setting to use (and there are so many to choose from!). At one point, …
Wool: Sounds From the Silo
Listen to be transported into Hugh Howey’s world of Wool. These sounds emulate a multi-level society that survives underground in a giant vertical silo, all floors connected by one spiraling metal staircase.
Behind the Scenes
I knew the silo would be an interesting choice because …
Monster scaring woman and children
I used sounds from freesound.org to create a scene where a monster is scaring a woman and children.
Audio Summary
YouTube
Link
LinkedIn
Soundcloud
Twitter
Flickr
Audio Week Assignments:
Thoughts About Audio Storytelling
A Murder Of Crows
Create A Place
All The Relaxation
Remake That Genre!
Auditory Hell
What A Song Might Mean To You
Audio Summary
What did you learn?
I learned about some sound techniques such as …
Create A Place
YouTube
Link
LinkedIn
Soundcloud
Twitter
Flickr
Prompt: For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org
I always say that water is my spirit animal. Yes, I know …
Create a Place: Coffee Shop
The prompt: create a space using only sound.
The most comfortable and relaxing place in the world is a coffee shop. The ambiance is perfect for work, reading, and meeting with friends. Not to mention, the amazing coffee and pastries.
I created the experience of a coffee shop from when …
DS Assignment bank: Create A Place
Under Water noises, could be used in a cheesy 1980’s music video intro…
Sounds of Space
I created an alien city using a combination of sound effects, I’m really happy with it!…
Where I’d Rather Be
I choose to do this visual assignment Create A Place, because I could really use a vacation right about now. I am sure that everyone can guess what location I was trying to mimic. My ideal vacation would be me laying on a beach somewhere (literally any beach I …
Where am I?
Directions: ” For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org “
Behind the Story:
Can you figure out where I am?
Narrating the Process: …
Creating a City
So, for my first post of week 5, I had said somethings that I now regret. I was struggling to get used to working with sound effects and putting all that together and was not pleased with my progress. Now that I’ve played around and gotten used to it, it’s …
The Place of Sounds
Though this is very similar to another assignment I did, I thought this would be fun to do because I could create a place and not a story. I wanted something to do with the 80’s so that it went with the theme of the semester, and when I asked …
D.C. Sounds
For this assignment, for 4 stars, I did the “Create a Place” audio assignment. We had to mashup a bunch of sounds in order to create a place. For mine, I wanted to choose D.C. because that’s where I spend a lot of time. For the audio, I included a …
Sounds of the Streets
The point of this assignment was to create a place using only sound effects. For this process, I went to FreeSounds which is a free-use platform with thousands of user generated sounds. My goal was to make the listener feel as if they were sitting on a bench by a …
Where Am I?
The “Create a Place” assignment was to “Create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc.”
I decided to create a farmyard scene. I used freesound.org to find lots of different sounds, such as a rooster, birds, …
Create A Place
So for this assignment I kind of twisted it a little and put my spin on it. We were tasked to create a place with sound, I created a place and a scene at the same time. My goal was to tell a story through the sound, it could be …
Week 7 Audio Assignments
All The Relaxation 2.5 https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/all-the-relaxation/
Create a Place 4 https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-place/
Emotions Through Sound 4 https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/emotions-through-sound/https://soundcloud.com/michael-brown-732410127/relaxing-sounds
(i had uploaded this to sound cloud and was immediately copyright claimed, i obtained all my audio from freesounds.org so i am disputing it, for now, here is the mp3
It had taken me …
Sites and Sounds of NYC
Being from NY I loved the idea of the assignment. The goal of the assignment was to create sounds that would match up with a city. I realized that I didn’t want to just create the sounds but I wanted to actually show what it was like to be in …
Farm House Noises
Create a Place (4 stars)
For this assignment it said to create a place by just using sounds. So what my process consisted of was first, going on to freesounds.org to search for sounds to try and create a place out of them. As I was searching through the first …
Welcome to…
For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org
Assignment Bank- Audio Assignments
Welcome to Jurassic Park! Cue the theme song. I decided to create the feeling that …
Create a Place
My final assignment for this week’s Audio Assignment component was using sounds to create a place. I decided to use sounds to make the listener feel as if they were at a basketball game. The sounds I used were from freesound.org except for the sound of the buzzer going off. …
Can You Guess Where You Are?
For this assignment we had to create a place by using only sound. I made the music a little louder so that you wouldn’t be able to guess so easily. I was inspired to make this place because I was at a more modern version of this place last night. …
Tounge Twisters!
Tounge twisters can be so hard! I think there are certain ones that are definitely easier, but if you try to do all of them as fast as possible, you will get tripped up for sure. I wanted to make sure I did a few because they are all relatively …
Gallapher into the night!
For the Create a Place assignment, I chose to use my character Gallapher that I created. This is her galloping off into the night!
…
City Street
Take a listen! Can you place this sound?
It is supposed to be what you can hear out of your bedroom window in a city. Car horns honking, people talking, an ambulance whirring by, and the rustle of people walking down the street.
This assignment was a little more difficult …
Calm Beach!
When I read the assignment from the bank for this week, I noticed the one that said create a place using sound. Of course, the first place I thought of was the beach. It was so easy to make such a calming noise. AND I got 4 stars from it! …
The City in Sounds
For this assignment, I put together different sound effects to illustrate the sound of a busy city. I used New York City as inspiration for this assignment. I downloaded the sound effects and put them together on Audacity. It was not difficult to do and I enjoyed putting it together.…
A Fragment of What World War Z Sounded Like
I was going to do a visual assignment, but the audio assignment Create A Place was just too interesting to NOT do.
I flipped through my copy of World War Z, trying to find the best setting to use (and there are so many to choose from!). At one point, …
Wool: Sounds From the Silo
Listen to be transported into Hugh Howey’s world of Wool. These sounds emulate a multi-level society that survives underground in a giant vertical silo, all floors connected by one spiraling metal staircase.
Behind the Scenes
I knew the silo would be an interesting choice because …
Monster scaring woman and children
I used sounds from freesound.org to create a scene where a monster is scaring a woman and children.
Help Someone Else Do this Assignment
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Tutorials So Far
A tutorial on using sounds to create a scene for a listener using Audacity.…
Stars: 4
For my next assignment I had to create a place out of sounds. After the first week of audio assignments, I think I got a pretty good idea of how to use audacity. A few weeks ago I would say this assignment deserves 4 stars of difficulty, but …
Since my group was still deciding details about who does what, set-up, etc. I decided to start working on assignments for stars. I decided, since I wasn’t sure what I was going to do for the group, I might as well start working on my story segment. My character Maria, …
For creating this assignment, which is creating a place just using sound, I decided to take inspiration from real life and make my dorm room. How I came up with that, I have no idea. Perhaps its because I was sitting in my room when thinking of ideas. I wanted …