Understanding Audio. Audacity, audio frequencies and sampling rates, formats, compression.

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#13 AUDIO

All Assignments due Tuesday 8/13 by midnight

Download and use AUDACITY to create sound effects and loops that you will use to create a soundscape; this sound should inhabit, or become, an environment. Avoid creating what could be considered conventional music. The sound project should generate a sense of space (Is it expansive? Small? What kinds of sounds inhabit that space? etc.) Clips and audio used will be sound that you record from the environment around you (no appropriation). Once finished, create a SoundCloud account and upload your audio file there.

objectives:

Construct a sound piece using the language of sound create a sense of space and embodiment. Students will apply sound files (**not music**) to a timeline to generate this effect.
Experiment with how to use both mono and stereo speakers, switching from one to another: panning.
Be able to change pitch, tempo, and speed.
Add, cut, copy, overlap, and move sound files on a timeline.
Apply and affectively explore concepts of foreground, background, contour, rhythm, silence, density, space and volume.
Learn when you use a particular audio format and understand audio compression.

project specifications:

Check out and us the Zoom H2 from the cage (must use your own SD memory card) to record audio out in the “wild”
Create a soundscape using your own audio recordings that you can record, compile, and edit using Audacity
Must be between 1 and 2 minutes.
Upload to SoundCloud
Process work and final sound piece uploaded to your blog