Digital Audio and Telling Stories
Supporting materials for our in-class activity, audio editing and storytelling. The lesson page for today's class is at: http://citsf221.community.uaf.edu/2009/08/10-audio-for-the-web/
Audio Editing
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net
There are plenty of free audio editors available that will allow you to create and edit multi-track files. Audacity is easy to install and easy to use, but don't forget to install the LAME encoder if you want to export your work to MP3.
Audacity: Free Audio Editor and RecorderAudacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and...Finding Audio Resources
There are lots of fantastic resources for finding audio samples to work with. I've linked a handful below:
Freesound.org - Freesound.orgThe City Rings is looking for new partners in Europe who are interested in exchanging through sound, and sound pedagogy. The City Rings i...
SoundCloud - Your Sound, At The HeartCreate, record and share the sounds you create anywhere to friends, family and the world with SoundCloud, the world's largest community o...ccMixter - Welcome to ccMixter
ccMixter is a community remix site sponsored by ArtisTech Media, created by Creative Commons- Audio - CC WikiCreative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.
Download & Streaming : Audio Archive : Internet ArchiveWelcome to the Archive's audio and MP3 library. This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alte...
Royalty Free music downloads - JamendoNumber 1 platform for free music. Free music downloads for private use - Royalty free music license for commercial purposes. More than 40...- Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and WindowsMPEG Streamclip: video converter for Mac & Windows DC30 Xact Driver for Mac G4 (driver for the DC30 video card)
Activity
In class we are going to take some time and familiarize ourselves with the Audacity interface. To help get us started, I've linked some audio files below to download and import into Audacity:
Freesound.org - "rbh thunder storm.wav" by RHumphriesJune 9th, 2005. rain and several thunder claps. Stereo. Recorded with a minidisc recorder and an AT822 mic. Edited in Protools and save...- Brook20Sec.wav by acclivitySome people think this just sounds like any water running. To me it's what it was - a beautiful babbling mountain stream. Recorded in the...
- cf_FX_bloibb.mp3 by cforkFreesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?
C0005g_gis.aif by thanvannispenAs an internship at the Utrecht School of the Arts, Adaptive Sound and Music for Games was investigated. For the use of adaptable non-lin...
Dark church bell.wav by DJ ChronosA dark and powerful "bell from hell". This is a remix of Schalkalwis' "Lipari bells.aif" sample. I filtered all of the high end sounds ou...- tension.wav by ERHFreesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?
sword01.wav by ErdieFreesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?- Negative Future edit 1f.wav by ERHFreesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?
Example Stories
These examples aren't all from this class, but are interesting and similarly-themed. I really like the first example (although it is a little on the existential side) because the creator shares a bit about his process and notes all the audio sources he's used, along with links back to where they were downloaded from.- Do It Now! | mbransonsI have to admit this became more of a dabbling with "found sounds" rather than what I'd think normally as working with sound effect clips...
Audio1:End of the Reign of Manhttp://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/18244709 OK - this was a fun project Sound Effects Story - Author: Jim Groom - Description: Tell a story...
