This is an audio assignment where you will need to use homophones – words that sound the same with different meanings (hear/here, bee/be, dear/deer, etc.). Using as many homophones as you can, write and record a brief story or poem.

Create your own verse from a song! Pick a few lines from a few of your favorite songs that have the same focus. Then, combine them together to make a new verse in a song. Make sure it makes sense and it goes together! See an example here: http://emilydeane.com/?p=158

Write and perform your very own rap. Create your own beat box or experiment with audacity’s audio settings. Remember to think: What Would Dirt Mcgirt Do?

Everyone can recall some memory of growing up around the family table- be it Thanksgiving, day to day with siblings, across TV dinner trays, in the backseat at the drive-through of McDonalds. You know your family and these memories better than anyone. Take this chance to wax nostalgic for a minute, and recreate these magical memories. Here’s the catch: YOU have to be everyone at the family table. If you’ve ever seen Eddie Murphy’s “The Nutty Professor;” it’s the same idea, but no costumes required. Using Soundcloud or another audio recording program, give us a taste of what it was like around YOUR family table.

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.

Make a campaign ad for or against the Bagman’s presidential campaign! The sillier, the better. Read more about this candidate.

Make a song that you might never expect to hear! Take some background music, or make your own, and find some artists you like and make a forced collaboration with their lyrics Try to make it sounds as natural as possible.

This is a simple mashup that searches Freesounsd and flickr for the same word. It then display the sound and picture. You can reload either until you get an image and sound you like. This can be added to a list, and the exercise repeated. Once you have a set of picture/sounds you can grab an embed code to put hem on a blog. A set of pictures/sounds could create a story, illustrate a quote, saying or slogan. Make flickrSounds at http://johnjohnston.info/flickrSounds/

Don LaFontaine was legendary for hos deep voiceover intros to movie trailers (“In a world…”). Make a recording that uses his style that describes something ordinary or everyday. See the TV tropes listing for ideas or expressions or model it after one of the thousands of examples he left out there — see his video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPMvj_xejg

If you lack The Voice naturally, use your audi editor’s shift pitch tools to deepen it.