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Windy Audio Alert!

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For my first Audio Assignment, I clicked the button “try a random one”. I wanted to see what it came up with because trying to pick one out in the whole bank is hard!! {there are wayy too many good ones and I couldn’t choose!} It came up with the assignment, to imitate some kind of weather.

{Play it and close your eyes imagining that you are on the show Winnie the Pooh - for some reason, it was always windy in the 100 acre woods!}

At first, I wanted to do lightenting. I tried it, and it didn’t work well. It just sounded like heavy winds…so I decided to imitate wind. I tried to make it sound as real as possible but you can be the judge of that! :) In radio lingo, when people create their own sounds from theirself and what they have around them, it is called foley sound. I have always wanted to do this so when I got randomly assigned to thi assignment in the DS 106 Assignment Bank, I was happy!

Because I have the SoundCloud app on my phone, I just recorded and uploaded my sound from there. It was actually very easy. I would definitely reccommend getting the app if you have an iPhone or any other device that you can get apps with!

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It’s hail. No srsly.

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Imitate Some Weather

Using only your voice and things within arm’s reach of your computer, imitate some kind of weather. It doesn’t have to be long, but make it sound as real as possible.

I blame the suck of this on the limitations within the instructions on the project. It hurts me to post it. But here it is.

My fleece sweater was on the arm of the chair next to me, and a cheap plastic controller (that goes to God-knows-what) was the only other thing in arm’s reach. I had the idea to rustle the fleece slightly in my left arm while my left hand held the phone (so I was kinda rubbing the fleece itself on the iPhone mic), and then gradually start tapping the controller on the stone coffee table top. And this is what you get. I felt that it sounded like wind and then gradually intensifying hail.

You’re totally allowed to hate it. It was fun to make, though.

This assignment was worth 1 star. For obvious reasons. It was the last one that came up in my rotation. I only needed one more star at that point, so I just kept clicking the random assignment button until it gave me a 1-star option.

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rain rain go away…

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For this mission I had to imitate weather, but only with things that were within hands reach of my computer. At first I thought to create a windy noise using my mouth and moving closer and further away from the laptop mic. It worked well, but I felt it was too dull, so I though I would try to imitate rain. I tried tapping close to the microphone, or on the screen.. but I didn’t really like those sounds. I had a small, ribbed bowl next to me that I was eating chex mix that I decided to test out. I held it up to the mic and tapped and ran across the ribs with my mechanical pencil and got a great sound.

I then went to my soundcloud and instead of uploading a file from a audio program, I just recorded it raw. Soundcloud recorded the sound, and I uploaded it. No editing or anything, and only a few trial runs.

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Weather at my desk

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The Digital Storytelling MOOC ds106 has an assignment brief to use whatever is to hand at your desk to simulate a weather condition. Using two tea bags and an emery board (lucky I stopped biting my nails last month), my headset mic and the open source audio recorder and editor Audacity, I attempted somebody’s path down a snowy walkway to clear their car windows. If I’d had more time, I’d have panned to give a sense of approach and also made the footsteps louder as they approached the car and fainter as they left again. Also note that the distinction between the scraping and the stepping got lost in the export or maybe in the upload to SoundCloud… Think I know what I need to do next time.

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Imitating Weather

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Here is my attempt at imitating a thunder storm using objects within my “reach”. Being that my desk is surrounded by instruments, I had access to a plethora of interesting sounds. I used an odd instrument that I bought at an African store that produces a “droplet” type of sound for the rain. Then, I used paper that I slapped against the microphone to produce the thunder-like sound. I added some post-reverb to everything to fill the empty spaces. The recording program I used to master everything was Ableton Live 8. Hope you enjoy!

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Week 7 Audio assignment – Imitate Some weather

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Imitating a stormy weather, using my voice, a brown paper bag and plastic bag.

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Imitate some weather

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Weather

This is my attempt of trying to make a sound of wind. I just recorded myself whistling with my phone. Tried to make it sound like a wind gust

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imitate some weather assignment

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what i did here was i tried to imitate a hurricane. i used my mouth (obviously) for the wind and used a magazine to try to recreate rain

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rain drops are falling on my desk

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This work is for Audio Assignments, “Imitate Some Weather.”

I tried to make sound of rain drops.

I just hit a ceramic cup made in China with a pen.

The law buzzling noise was made by a heater also worked effectively.

1 I recorded it by an IC recorder and uploaded the MP3 file to SoundCloud.

2 Clicking “share” on my post on SoundClound showed me the uttl that could work when it was embeded on WordPress blog.

3 Then, in order to put it on my blog, Adding SoundCloud Shortcode to plugin on my own blofg was needed.

4 The most difficult part for me was posting. I posted the uttl on the visual screen in my blog.But it did not work. The answer was that the uttle had to be post on HTML screen.

My computer and Internet Explorer did not always work well. Actually, I had hard time to find out what the problem was.

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Imitate some weather

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Using only your voice and things within arm’s reach of your computer, imitate some kind of weather. It doesn’t have to be long, but make it sound as real as possible.