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Recite a story
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 257 views.
Record yourself reciting different sections of a novel to quickly give the jist of the story or a subplot. They can be bits of dialog or exposition, but make sure they're spread throughout the novel, so you're getting a full storyline. Add music or sound effects in the background if you want, just make it engaging!
Album Mashup
So far, 1 person has completed this assignment and it has 311 views.
Create a mashup on GarageBand or comporable with multiple songs from the same album.
Chrome Music Labs
So far, 5 people have completed this assignment and it has 555 views.
Using the crome music labs at https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/ , Specifically the Song Maker application make a song that's at least 20 measures long. Then share your Piece on your blog or tweet it and explain your artistic process.
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.
3’s A Band
So far, 0 people have completed this assignment and it has 501 views.
Using a Free Notation software (such as musescore) Create a piece of music using 3 instuments. The piece can be as long or as short as you would like, in any style but It must have 3 seperate and distinct instruments.
Create a ds106 radio bumper
So far, 13 people have completed this assignment and it has 1086 views.
Now that we have a #ds106 radio up and running creating a 15 to 30 second bumper for the station. What is a bumper? It is a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_(broadcasting)). So for ds106 it should certainly include "DS106 Radio" and some sort of message about the station with voice over music.
Sound Effects Story
So far, 16 people have completed this assignment and it has 3563 views.
Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds. Another example (by a UMW student): http://ds106.us/wp-content/audio/audio_story.mp3
Spooky Season
So far, 5 people have completed this assignment and it has 892 views.
Within this assigment, you must find some spooky sounds and create a scary audio clip. Select more than four sounds and overlap them on a program like Audacity. You can use Freesound to select your sounds. Make them as spooky as possible. Good luck!
80’s Product Radio Commercial
So far, 27 people have completed this assignment and it has 2057 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.
Jamming with Dave
So far, 2 people have completed this assignment and it has 1165 views.
Someone was kind enough to make a "David Lee Roth - Running with the Devil Isolated Vocal Track" (You can download it with right-click, Save Linked Content As. It may be slightly different depending on your OS & browser) We can't let that effort go to waste. Mix Diamond Dave's vocalizations with another audio track - music, interview, conversation, whatever - to make something new and amusing. There are a couple remixes of it out there already. Someone even made a soundboard out of it. What can you do with it? Do Dave proud.