Every kid loves playing with toys and while growing up we all had our favorites.  As a grown up, sometimes I look back at the toys I used to play with.  Some of them bring back fun feelings and I still think they’re cool.  Others bring back a completely different feeling, like what was I thinking and how did I enjoy this.  How creepy would it be if I still played with all those toys as if I never grew up?

For this project I decided to make a recording of several different toys being played with at once.  While I don’t play with children’s things anymore, my art has a lot of connections with childhood.  I make realistic baby dolls and the bulk of my photography work is with children.  Seeing as I still have most of my childhood toys I thought they would make a good inspiration for this project.

The way I created this project was I found randome toys around my house and recorded their sounds.  Then I edited the sounds in garage band to give it a bit more of a creepy feeling.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-scapes-2/

4 1/2 stars 

I even went with the Deep Field photo from the assignment prompt, because I love the deep field photo. It’s something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about. It’s the closest most of us will get to Time Travel. When you look at that photo you’re looking BILLIONS OF YEARS INTO THE PAST. What’s cooler than that?

The audio is a collection of found sounds: the fan on my computer (compressed and gained), a fifteen year old cat meowing (spliced over and over into itself and degained), and then the sound of myself plucking the wires on a hard-boiled egg slicer (compressed and muffled). It all comes together to sounds kind of alien.

Four and a Half Stars!

This is most definitely the hardest assignment I’ve done yet. I guess I’m just not a very good “mixer” but I’ve seriously started working on this last night. I used Audacity, and had a lot of trouble finding a tutorial that I could sit through, so even I just gave up and dived in.

I wanted to replicate the sound scape of a city, and all of it’s crazy undertones. After I was able to find all the sounds I need using Sound Bible, I was well on my way to making a sound scape- or so I thought. As I kept working on it, it either sounded too quiet or too ear splittingly loud. I was frustrated that I couldn’t find any street music, so that’s why you hear a street chanting of Hare Krishna is the beginning. Cities are all about diversity…right? Anyway, I hope it reminds you guys of the city, whether it’s a good thing or not.

This is most definitely the hardest assignment I’ve done yet. I guess I’m just not a very good “mixer” but I’ve seriously started working on this last night. I used Audacity, and had a lot of trouble finding a tutorial that I could sit through, so even I just gave up and dived in.

I wanted to replicate the sound scape of a city, and all of it’s crazy undertones. After I was able to find all the sounds I need using Sound Bible, I was well on my way to making a sound scape- or so I thought. As I kept working on it, it either sounded too quiet or too ear splittingly loud. I was frustrated that I couldn’t find any street music, so that’s why you hear a street chanting of Hare Krishna is the beginning. Cities are all about diversity…right? Anyway, I hope it reminds you guys of the city, whether it’s a good thing or not.