Showing posts with label AudioAssignments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AudioAssignments. Show all posts
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Entirely Joined Meaning
I was always confused by all the definitions of remix and mashup, but now I dare to publish a remix (mashup?) from a song and recorded speech (both by me) that is my very personal way to explain remix.
A Remix Remix
I am sure you have already listen to a remix where you can hear a song interrupted by someone saying something. This is exactly what the tutorial is about.
I will create this kind of remix and by that telling you about the foundations of Audacity which is a sound editing software and which you can download for free. But first listen to the example.
I have used a song I created for a different tutorial and I will record me saying one of the many definitions on remix.
The following 8 but short tutorial videos will tell you about all. Just before watching them download and install Audacity. Note that I am a PC user, Shortcuts I mention may be different with a Mac.
The Audacity interface, loading an audio file and previewing it:
Select, copy and paste to a new track, remove clipping noises:
Generating new audio parts and moving them.
Recording and noise removal.
Taking parts of the speech and remixing it with the song.
More parts of the speech will be remixed with the song.
Exporting as mp3.
I will create this kind of remix and by that telling you about the foundations of Audacity which is a sound editing software and which you can download for free. But first listen to the example.
I have used a song I created for a different tutorial and I will record me saying one of the many definitions on remix.
The following 8 but short tutorial videos will tell you about all. Just before watching them download and install Audacity. Note that I am a PC user, Shortcuts I mention may be different with a Mac.
The Audacity interface, loading an audio file and previewing it:
Select, copy and paste to a new track, remove clipping noises:
Generating new audio parts and moving them.
Recording and noise removal.
Taking parts of the speech and remixing it with the song.
More parts of the speech will be remixed with the song.
Exporting as mp3.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
One, Two, Wow!
As an example of an assignment idea I have posted at the ds106 assignment bank, I have produced a piece of music, where you can hear a voice saying something over a beat.
I used Soundation to create a beat and exportet this as a .wav to my computer. After this I loaded the file into Audacity. In Audacity I recorded my voice saying 'One, two, Wow.' I did not choose the words for any meaning, but because I felt it right for my chosen beat.
I used Soundation to create a beat and exportet this as a .wav to my computer. After this I loaded the file into Audacity. In Audacity I recorded my voice saying 'One, two, Wow.' I did not choose the words for any meaning, but because I felt it right for my chosen beat.
Music Production and Sharing
A series of tutorials about how to produce pieces of music and how to share them on Soundcloud and Tumblr.
The first video shows you how to find the download page from a great free sound editing software called Audacity.
The next video shows you how to produce a beat with the free online software Soundation. When have created the beat it is opened in Audacity where a voice track is recorded. (You could record in Soundation, but not in the free version.)
The third video is about sharing a Soudcloud track on a Tumblr blog.
The first video shows you how to find the download page from a great free sound editing software called Audacity.
The next video shows you how to produce a beat with the free online software Soundation. When have created the beat it is opened in Audacity where a voice track is recorded. (You could record in Soundation, but not in the free version.)
The third video is about sharing a Soudcloud track on a Tumblr blog.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
German Ideal World Round
Have you ever sung a canon with yourself?
This is possible with a record of you singing the canon once. Afterwards you have to listen to yourself and to start the next recording when the next voice comes in.
It is possible to cheat by recording the canon only once and copying it, but this is no fun and you may have difficulties to synchronise the parts.
For my recording I've chosen a canon which looks easy but is tricky, still, it has the nice effect to really achieve a multi-layered sound of voices.
The piece is in German, but below the notes I present a translation.
A possible course is:
- plug in microphone and headphones
- start software
- start the recording of the canon according to your software's ways
- go back to the start of your recording
- add/ go to new track (if necessary; in Audacity a new track is automatically added)
and hit record
- start singing when the next part comes in
You can repeat this.
When I was a child and during my time at university I always was part of a choir and the above round is often sung in German choirs. For me this is a world far in the past. I still love listening to a polyphony if voices but can hardly imagine being in a choir with all the pink ideal world people around me. Still, the music they are producing is nice.
This post is inspired by the ds106 assignment idea Row Row Polyphony.
here you can find the sources of the notes and the translation:
notes:
http://www.mamas-truhe.de/lieder/froh-zu-sein-bedarf-es-wenig.html
translation:
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=2669&c=38
This is possible with a record of you singing the canon once. Afterwards you have to listen to yourself and to start the next recording when the next voice comes in.
It is possible to cheat by recording the canon only once and copying it, but this is no fun and you may have difficulties to synchronise the parts.
For my recording I've chosen a canon which looks easy but is tricky, still, it has the nice effect to really achieve a multi-layered sound of voices.
The piece is in German, but below the notes I present a translation.
It takes little to be happy
And whoever is happy is a king.
And whoever is happy is a king.
While recording headphones should be used. Otherwise the sound which comes from the speakers is also recorded. This usually interferes with the quality of the recording.
A possible course is:
- plug in microphone and headphones
- start software
- start the recording of the canon according to your software's ways
- go back to the start of your recording
- add/ go to new track (if necessary; in Audacity a new track is automatically added)
and hit record
- start singing when the next part comes in
You can repeat this.
When I was a child and during my time at university I always was part of a choir and the above round is often sung in German choirs. For me this is a world far in the past. I still love listening to a polyphony if voices but can hardly imagine being in a choir with all the pink ideal world people around me. Still, the music they are producing is nice.
This post is inspired by the ds106 assignment idea Row Row Polyphony.
here you can find the sources of the notes and the translation:
notes:
http://www.mamas-truhe.de/lieder/froh-zu-sein-bedarf-es-wenig.html
translation:
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=2669&c=38
Friday, September 20, 2013
Stefanie's DS106 Rap
One of this weeks assignments is creating a radio bumper for ds106, but I already did one in spring '13.
This way I rather have chosen something similar to this from the assignment bank, which is to produce your very own Rap.
I had to go to Soundation to come up with a beat. Here you can find various building blocks for creating a suitable beat. I did this very intuitively by choosing a block by name, listening to it and deciding if I may use it or not.
I do not know much about Rap, but I know there is a beat and words, which are spoken appropriate to the beat. So I tried and felt awkwardly first, but then found my way with some words. Hear yourself!
The recording of my words I managed with Audacity. While listening to the beat via my head phones I have spoken the words into the microphone. After this I listened to the combination and giving it some tries I finally was content.
I would have liked to give my voice more volume, but did not manage in my small room and sitting in front of a computer, the atmosphere was not like being able to feel free enough for a more impressive voice. Still, I like my DS106 Rap.
This way I rather have chosen something similar to this from the assignment bank, which is to produce your very own Rap.
I had to go to Soundation to come up with a beat. Here you can find various building blocks for creating a suitable beat. I did this very intuitively by choosing a block by name, listening to it and deciding if I may use it or not.
I do not know much about Rap, but I know there is a beat and words, which are spoken appropriate to the beat. So I tried and felt awkwardly first, but then found my way with some words. Hear yourself!
The recording of my words I managed with Audacity. While listening to the beat via my head phones I have spoken the words into the microphone. After this I listened to the combination and giving it some tries I finally was content.
I would have liked to give my voice more volume, but did not manage in my small room and sitting in front of a computer, the atmosphere was not like being able to feel free enough for a more impressive voice. Still, I like my DS106 Rap.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Rescue
After Julie has decided to join a group of people, who oppose the government of Thasis, there are tasks for her. A group of dancers are accused to have despised the warnings of the authorities to stop their futile doing as dancers but rather offer their services to the good of Thasis, which was working in a weapon factory.
They have locked up the dancers as if they are dangerous criminals. Julie is part of the group which is assigned for rescuing the dancers from a well watched prison. Part of the action has been recorded and you can listen to it here.
I did not choose an entire film like proposed in the assignment "Context", but just a trailer of the movie "LockOut" and a short clip of the film. I imagined a rescue a chaotic event and this way you may not be able to find a certain plot in the audio but rather an atmosphere, which is intended.
I opened the two video clips in my movie editor and took the parts I needed. The result I saved as an mp3 file and uploaded this to Soundcloud to be able to embed it here.
They have locked up the dancers as if they are dangerous criminals. Julie is part of the group which is assigned for rescuing the dancers from a well watched prison. Part of the action has been recorded and you can listen to it here.
I did not choose an entire film like proposed in the assignment "Context", but just a trailer of the movie "LockOut" and a short clip of the film. I imagined a rescue a chaotic event and this way you may not be able to find a certain plot in the audio but rather an atmosphere, which is intended.
I opened the two video clips in my movie editor and took the parts I needed. The result I saved as an mp3 file and uploaded this to Soundcloud to be able to embed it here.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Pursuit
Julie has attended a forbidden party and has just realized that she is now wanted by the police. A police officer detects her and she runs away.
For this little audio story I altered the ds106 assignment "911, What’s Your Emergency?" in the way that a police officer calls his or her head office. He takes the radio with him or her and reports what happens.
I recorded what the officer says with my voice and added a police radio sound effect in Audacity. I as well put in a running sound and recorded myself gasping for breath. All together it makes the impression of a police officer pursuits a suspect. I'd rather liked that the gasping and the spoken words come together. The next time I may record me gasping and speaking the same time.
For this little audio story I altered the ds106 assignment "911, What’s Your Emergency?" in the way that a police officer calls his or her head office. He takes the radio with him or her and reports what happens.
I recorded what the officer says with my voice and added a police radio sound effect in Audacity. I as well put in a running sound and recorded myself gasping for breath. All together it makes the impression of a police officer pursuits a suspect. I'd rather liked that the gasping and the spoken words come together. The next time I may record me gasping and speaking the same time.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Thunder & Hail
Here I've made some weather on my desk. I took a cardboard box and put some toy pieces in it and moved all around. This became a thunder. Then I took some paper clips and dropped them into the cardboard box.
I guess you don't believe this thunder sound can be the result of cardboard and pieces ...
This is right. The original thunder lacked of bass and the typical reverberation. Hear yourself.
I edited the thunder original in audacity by adding some bass and gverb to get the above result.
The idea I got from the audio assignment of ds106 'Imitate some Weather' and it is meant to be an assignment concerning week 7 and 8 of the regular course requirements for ds106 students.
I guess you don't believe this thunder sound can be the result of cardboard and pieces ...
This is right. The original thunder lacked of bass and the typical reverberation. Hear yourself.
I edited the thunder original in audacity by adding some bass and gverb to get the above result.
The idea I got from the audio assignment of ds106 'Imitate some Weather' and it is meant to be an assignment concerning week 7 and 8 of the regular course requirements for ds106 students.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Cultural Tension
Four years ago I joined facebook. This was an interesting experience for me and I tried to make out what unwritten rules I should consider here. It was a long time until I dared to participate in any conversation. Now I use one of my first tries for an ds106 assignment which is called 'Text Impersonation'.
Michal has posted a photograph of three men sitting in a restaurant on a bench, arms around the necks of the neighbor.
This was the start of the dialogue I have chosen to act out and record:
In the following, you can also read the dialogue.
Michal has posted a photograph of three men sitting in a restaurant on a bench, arms around the necks of the neighbor.
This was the start of the dialogue I have chosen to act out and record:
In the following, you can also read the dialogue.
Michael
(Hawaiian):
It's backlit and dark, but it's the only photo I have of our art school reunion with Karl and Chris - a very good moment.
It's backlit and dark, but it's the only photo I have of our art school reunion with Karl and Chris - a very good moment.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
After War Spring Poetry
This post is meant to be both, the first scene of my radio show and a weekly audio assignment. The assignment demands reciting a poem, recording it and make it a part of a story. I have chosen a German poem by Eichendorf, which I have translated. Any admirer of poetry may forgive me any roughness in the translation.
For my audio piece I recorded both versions, the German and the English. I also added a lovely piece of sound where you can hear spring noise and a short piano recording. In the end I was in love with this creation. Here it is:
For my radio show the above audio displays the first scene. A little girl plays around and sings in a garden, when something is going to happen. First the story of how she gets to the garden will start and second her foster mum is approaching with news, which will be revealed at the end of the story. The growing spring and piano sound are meant to hint to the following action.
For my audio piece I recorded both versions, the German and the English. I also added a lovely piece of sound where you can hear spring noise and a short piano recording. In the end I was in love with this creation. Here it is:
For my radio show the above audio displays the first scene. A little girl plays around and sings in a garden, when something is going to happen. First the story of how she gets to the garden will start and second her foster mum is approaching with news, which will be revealed at the end of the story. The growing spring and piano sound are meant to hint to the following action.
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