Title: Podcasting with Demons
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Program used: Audacity
DESCRIPTION:
For this project, I wanted to act out a scene with the help of sound effects to help visualize what’s going on. In the audio portrait, I was going after a parody of a podcast, and then I turned it into an improv where I talk to myself, while adding comedic elements. I thought that this form of the audio portrait would be the easiest to work with for me, I get to be closer to the characters I’m impersonating, and it helps me build my goal to be a voice actor in the future.
CREDITS:
Sounds – Zapsplat.com
Music – Carefree by Kevin MacLeod (Royalty Free)
Category: Audio
Portrait of Church
Title: eerie chruch
Semester: fall 2023
Software: GarageBand
Description:
I chosen church for this second project because all my childhood I went to church. Was even an altar boy at some point. I hated it all. I didn’t like to go to church so i wanted to create a story that there’s something…wrong about this particular church. So for the church bells i did a lil reverb and then I reversed the whole church bell audio to give it that eerie feel. Then i put an audio of children playing (even though it’s kinda silent) then i put my mini script and birds chirping. Then i added the heel clacking to create the effect that I’m going inside and the church bells go down in volume as I go Inside. Then at the end I added a choir to give the affect that ok I’m actually in a church and its starting its morning mass.
Credits:
“Orthodox choir singing in church.wav” by satoritec on freesound https://freesound.org/people/satoritec/sounds/659759/ this work is under http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Nov 17th 2022
“Steps in the church” by organicmanpl on freesound https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/198379/ this work is under http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ sept 1st 2013
“Birds in the woods.wav” by Emilgasi on freesound https://freesound.org/people/emilgasi/sounds/684357/ this work is under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ apr 18th 2023
“Ambience, Children Playing, Distant, A.wav” by InspectorJ on freesound https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/398160/ this work is under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
“Church Bells on the Avenue Il“ by theterrill on freesound https://freesound.org/people/theterrill/sounds/673474/ this work is under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ feb 7th 2023
Portrait of Far Rockaway
Title: Arverne
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Software: Audacity
Description:
I picked a familiar place such as Far Rockaway because it holds a big part of my heart. This is the place I grew up. I watched as they slowly built more and more houses. I watched as they made the boardwalk across the whole Far Rockaway. I have so many memories that I cherish from here. So to sum it up Far Rockaway is somewhere I won’t forget about. After all it is my home.
Credits:
“Yellowstone” by SalmonLikeTheFish. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Jan 19, 2018. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/SalmonLikeTheFish/Music_for_the_Sleepy_Traveler/02_-_Yellowstone/
“Woods” by Hawkin. Attribution-NonCommercial License. Aug 19, 2015. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hawkin/Woods/Woods/
“china town sample.aiff” by jack13_89. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License. November 18th, 2020. https://freesound.org/people/jack13_89/sounds/545277/
“Ambience » city highway busy cars pulling out.wav” by natemarler. This work is licensed under the Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License. March 3rd, 2016. https://freesound.org/people/natemarler/sounds/338675/
Nature » Ocean Waves 1.aiff by gnrja. This work is licensed under the Attribution 4.0 License. April 16th, 2012. https://freesound.org/people/gnrja/sounds/151706/
Portrait of NYC Ferry
Title: Our Ferry Ride
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Software: Audacity
Description:
I recorded my latest journey to Astoria on the NYC Ferry. With my boyfriends help I recorded the sound of the water, entering the ferry, the sounds on the ferry and exiting the ferry. I added in a track called “The Sunset Girl” that I think fit the vibe perfectly. I cut and pasted and edited a lot of audio out as well as fading in and out and adjusting the volume. I genuinely enjoyed recording the sounds for this project and putting it all together so I hope you enjoy listening.
Credits:
“The Sunset Girl” by L’Esprit d’Sfign. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. FreeMusicArchive. September 19, 2023.https://freemusicarchive.org/music/lesprit-dsfign/wide-open-heart-ep/the-sunset-girl/
Portrait of Columbus Circle
Title: Portrait of Columbus Circle
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Software: Audacity
Description:
I decided to do an audio portrait on Columbus Circle because I’m there so often. Before class on Tuesday, I recorded some sounds at Columbus Circle, such as people talking, cars honking, and the trains. In order to improve the ambiance more I found royalty free footstep sounds and bird sounds (both pigeon and robin). I adjusted the volume of a few of my audio files and I used fade in and fade out frequently. Audacity is a challenging program even though it’s simple, but I was able to edit my audio thanks to the recorded lectures on YouTube.
CREDITS
“Pigeons taking off” by Glaneur de sons. Attribution 3.0 license. Freesound.org. September 20, 2010. https://freesound.org/people/Glaneur%20de%20sons/sounds/104954/
“Footsteps on concrete” by florianreichelt. Creative Commons 0 license. Freesound.org. February 18, 2019. https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/459964/
“Bird Whistling, Single, Robin A” by InspectorJ. Attribution 4.0 license. Freesound.org. January 27, 2018. https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/416529/
“Footsteps, Dry Leaves (Sony)” by InspectorJ. Attribution 4.0 license. Freesound.org. November 26th, 2015. https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/329600/
Audio project B Darius Franklin
Audio Mix project by darius
fall 2023
Sounds from Pixabay.com
I used audacity to record a small collage of sound that would go well with nature and a city kinda mixed together with sounds of the birds chirping and the train noise mixed with the conductor saying that it’s the last stop.
Credits:pixabay.com
I also used reverse and bass in order to make the sound a little more louder so the listener can hear the different sounds mixed together.
Audio Portrait
Podcast about BMCC
Fall 2023
Audacity
I used Audacity to edit a recording I made on my iPhone introducing a podcast about BMCC. I added some background music and a bell sound effect for the beginning intro. I added some effects, including a noise gate to remove background noise and published a .ogg file.
Credits
“Break time,” by InsEMT. Creative Commons 0 License. Freesound.org. March 22nd, 2018. https://freesound.org/people/InsEMT/sounds/423003/
“Dreamy Waltz” by AudioCoffee. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. September 23, 2023. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/audiocoffee/cinematic-inspirational-music-1/dreamy-waltz/
