Audio Assignments
View Assignments sorted by
newest | title | ratings | examples | views |
There are 175 Audio Assignments. Try a random one? Not impressed? Then add an idea for a new Audio Assignment.
Have a Phone Conversation with Yourself
So far, 42 people have completed this assignment and it has 4067 views.
Using Audacity or another audio editing software, record yourself holding down both sides of a conversation. Using the pitch changer and/or other effects, change your voice so it sounds like two different people are talking.
80’s Product Radio Commercial
So far, 27 people have completed this assignment and it has 2053 views.
Create a 30-45 second radio commercial for a product from the 80’s. Add in some background music and/or sound effects to make it sound like a real radio commercial.
Eat Your Hear Out Beethoven
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 392 views.
Take an existing piece of mucis and and change the instrumentation. This could mean taking an a capella piece, and turning it into a piece for string quartet, or taking a beethoven piece and adapting it for electric guitar bass and drums. You could even take the alma matar and turn it into a bag pipes piece (im sure the school would love that). Once you've change up the piece, try playing it, blog about your choices and the thinking behind them, or post a recording on soundcloud.
Decode Your Language
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 2346 views.
Make a recording about your idols in the aesthetic of Saul Williams, Jessica Care Moore, and muMs da Schemer. Its more about form than content. Saul Williams does this great stream of names at the end of this live performance of DNA/Coded Language. His cadence and rhythm transmit his respect for these names with intensity and thoughtfulness. If you want to extend your performance, that's great, this assignment's about speaking your mind. And yeah, the example is a video, but the assignment is audio, this should make it easier for you to do multiple takes in order to get it right. Aim for ...
Who Called?
So far, 11 people have completed this assignment and it has 2496 views.
Record you self making a phone call as if you were a character off of the wire. The phone call has to be to another character from the wire. You can even make it a three way or four way call. You phone call can even be a voicemail as if someone didn't pick up. Cutomize it as much as you like! The phone call has to be at least 2 minuties.
Fictional Radio Ad
So far, 19 people have completed this assignment and it has 2476 views.
Congratulations! You've been hired by your favorite fantasy world to create a radio ad for the imaginary business or event of your choice. Be as creative as you can and background music is highly encouraged. Simply give all the details about the business or occasion and maybe even create a clever slogan to go along with it! For mine, I made an ad for Linus' Pumpkin Patch/ the Great Pumpkin Festival from PEANUTS, however yours can be anything you wish! I highly recommend stripping background music from a youtube video and recording your voice/putting everything together in garage band or ...
A Story of Lyrics
So far, 5 people have completed this assignment and it has 2529 views.
First, choose what you want to replicate using song lyrics. It can be a Wire epigraph, a nursery rhyme, a speech, a poem, anything really. Then find songs that have the words that you need in them. Put those songs into Audacity and take out the words that you need from those songs. Order the words, make them the same volume, and space them out/slow them down so you can understand what is being said. And there you have it, an epigraph, nursery rhyme, speech, or poem out of song lyrics!
Sound Scapes
So far, 25 people have completed this assignment and it has 4372 views.
Compose a sound piece using only found sounds. Edit and mix the piece on any sound editing equipment and upload to soundcloud.
Soundboard Conversation
So far, 17 people have completed this assignment and it has 3679 views.
Create a conversation between yourself and your favorite movie character using an online soundboard! To find soundboard clips, check out http://www.soundboard.com/.
Dialogue Mashup
So far, 10 people have completed this assignment and it has 4310 views.
As demonstrated by the Movies Mashup episode of the radio show The Truth, take two different movies and extract the dialogues scenes of actors form each, then re-edit them to create a story as if the characters from different movies were in the same conversation. Listen to examples from the show including The Terminator and Legally Blonde ("Terminally Blonde") and from the TV shows that become "The Sopranos in the West Wing."