This assignment had us pick a song with special significance to us, and then explain that importance through audio. I picked the song Guts, from Berserk. You might remember I created a ringtone with a different song from the series ages ago.

Audio Assignment – Make Your Own Ringtone

While I do like the song I used for that, Guts is by far my favorite song. It’s pretty obvious by my play counts how much I love this song (1000 of those plays were in one month), but I went into slightly more depth below. I put the song in the background of my explanation using Audacity, more as an attempt to block out some background noises from my bad iPhone mic, but make sure you listen to the full version without my dumb voice talking over it.

This assignment has us create an in theme radio bumper for ds106 radio. Before starting the project, I made sure I listened to the radio at least once, so I understood how it worked and sounded. I let the idea fester for a week or so, until I got the idea for what to say and the music I wanted to use. The background music is from Cowboy Bebop, and is the song of the western themed bounty hunter information show Big Shot. I thought it was pretty lively and appropriate.

The process itself was fairly easy: I recorded my best western accent into my iPhone, brought that and the song into audacity, and just trimmed it up a bit. I think it came out pretty well, but I wish I had a better mic that my earbuds.

For this assignment, we were supposed to use sound effects to tell a story. I wanted to tell a saloon story, and from checking the ds106 page, it seems most of you went with that as well. Of course, I wanted a little more action, so my audio tells the tale of a lively saloon, visited by a dastardly villain. A gunfight ensues, and the villain walks out unharmed. However, this is normal business in the wild, wild west, so all the patrons go back to their drinks and lively music.

I used a combination of freesounds.org and youtube clips to gather my sound effects. The song is called Five Card Shuffle by Kevin Macleod, and the gun sound effects were from Unforgiven. I had quite a few tracks to deal with, but it was mostly simple editing and placement, as well as utilizing fade in and out effects. One new trick I learned is how to use the change tempo effect. This allows to you speed up a song, slow it down, or drag a certain part of a sound on for longer. My most notable use of this was speeding up the song, as the original was a little too slow for my idea of a saloon song. Anyway, hope you enjoy it! Also, as a note, I’m not sure if this is really loud or not, since my computer is kinda quiet in general, so headphone users beware.

*This assignment bank was created as if someone was walking through a graveyard. Here are the sounds I chose to make it sound super spooky! Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/user-72233031/spooky-sounds

*For my story I had to incorporate my western belle. So what I did was an alarm clock to have her be waken up, then she went on her horse to her boyfriends house. Was happy to see him so she started kissing him, but then laughed because in the back of her mind she knew that she wanted to kill him for cheating on her. Which is why the gun is in the end, and we are left hanging with what she’s gonna do afterward.

https://soundcloud.com/user-72233031/sound-effect-story

*For this Assignment Bank we had to quickly talk about our interests for 30 seconds. It was really hard to think on the spot what I had to say. But overall it was a cool idea! I incorporated a picture of Liam Hemsworth..because he’s my favorite

https://soundcloud.com/user-72233031/celebrity-speed-dating