The first assignment I did was called Spooky Sounds worth 4 and a half stars. For this assignment I had make a track using spooky sounds , to try and evoke a sense of fear in the listener.

Steps:

1. I went to the ds106 page and clicked on the tab components.
2. Under the components tab I clicked on the tab assignment bank.
3. Under assignment bank I clicked on audio assignments.
4. Under audio assignments, on page three is the assignment spooky sounds.
5. I then went to the website pdsounds, and picked the sounds I wanted.
6. I downloaded the sounds and imported them onto audacity.
7. I then went to sound cloud.
8. I clicked the button upload and then hit the record  button to record my sounds.

This assignment was kind of fun but it was also difficult. I had fun looking through pdsounds to find the right sound clips I wanted to put together. It was hard finding certain sounds though because certain sounds were put in the wrong files. Once I found my sounds putting them together on audacity was easy. After I saved my recording I tried to upload it onto s sound cloud. Sound cloud kept saying that the sound mix was a copy of the original sound  which confused me because I know other people who have used pdsound and were able to put it on sound cloud so I had to take another root to put my clip on sound cloud. I used the record button on sound cloud , played my clip, and was able to record it. After I recorded it I then was able to put it on sound cloud. I suggest anyone else who does this assignment to make sure sound cloud accepts the sound they mix.

Assignment

For this assignment, we had to find different sound effects and combine them together to make something spooky, and have it last for at least one minute.

To do this, I first found four different sound effects on freesounds.org and added them all into audacity. I then edited them to have them fit into a one minute window, and spaced them out accordingly. I then exported the file to an MP3 format, and uploaded it to SoundCloud.

During this assignment I had to come up with a spooky soundtrack. So what I did for this assignment is to get the sound that I think are present in almost every scary story or what I think it is scary. For this track I used chain sound, typical scary environment sound, violin sound, and bats sound.

This assignment is worth 4 stars.

For this audio assignment I had to make an audio track that was Halloween themed or scared the listener. It also had to be a minute or longer in order to give the listener enough time to be scared. Before I give anything away, here is my spooky sound:

I found the main song on SoundCloud, downloaded it to my computer, and imported it into Audacity. The song was originally 5 minutes long but I only liked the first 40ish seconds of it, so I deleted the rest of the song and added in the really quiet talking before it got quieter and added the white noise at the end because it scared my roommate so I figured it worked well together. I liked this assignment because I got to scare my roommate and get away with it by saying that it was for an assignment. In actuality I liked this assignment because it was my first time really using Audacity and it was a challenge while also being fun and new.

This combines a lot of things that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE! I’m a huge fan of Audio and horror, so I’m going big this week with the 4 star assignment.  I want to use this track for my character Spooksy that I made as my host.  Going in, I wanted an ambient track of the sounds of his haunted mansion.  It was important to me that it be authentic, and not cheesy.  Everything you hear is not meant to be used for horror, and is ambient sound produced by real people/nature.  That being said, I did still want it to feel like old school horror.  It’s a dark stormy night in an old creaky house, with the bellows of ghostly children, and voices and spirits speaking and roaming freely through the halls.  The first thing I wanted was echoey halls, so I used a track from a fairy in Maine that was just a few minutes of hallway noise.  I added a creaky tree house that was being blown about under heavy winds, then I recorded it over itself to produce a light natural reverb type effect.  I found some children laughing, and muted them down a bit to sound far off and ghostly.  Finally, we needed the storm.  A REAL storm, very intense, and recorded outside.  This to me is the main track, so it’s the loudest.  Did you hear the monster growling in the background?  You weren’t supposed to, you hopefully felt it though.  I laid it very lightly over the other tracks starting around the 30 second mark, hopefully to trigger your subconscious fear.  In reality, it’s just me using vocal fry to growl my vowels, listen to it again “A, E, I, O, U.”