- Download Audacity
- Videos
- Recording with your smartphone:
- Using Audacity to create a multi-track project tutorial
- GarageBand Tutorial
- Creative Commons licensed sounds for your projects:
Contents
Resources
- Audio concepts:
- Recording
- Editing: Audacity Development Manual: links to many tutorials here
- Podcasts:
- Sound Design:
Project
Audio Portrait of a Place
Create an audio portrait of a place. This project will have 2 parts, recording audio and editing audio. These audio files will be shared. In the editing process, you can combine the material the class has recorded with other audio files if they are Creative Commons licensed, in the public domain, or if you recorded them yourself. The finished audio file should be at least one minute and no longer than three minutes, and should combine at least five different sounds. Try to tell a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. The listener should be able to envision specific streets/environments/people etc. when hearing your piece.
Submission
Upload the following to Brightspace:
- Post your .aup3 file or a compressed .zip file.
- The completed .aiff, .wav, .mp3 or .ogg file.
- An Open Lab post with the audio file and documentation including a short statement.
- Project statement
- Project title
- Semester and year created (Spring 2025)
- Software and/or languages used
- 3-4 sentence description about your creative and technical process. For example: What is the place/story you decided to depict in your piece? Why? How many audio sample did you combine? Did you use any effects? What was the most challenging part of the project and how did you solve it? etc.
- Credits for all audio you did not create yourself, using this citation example.
