{"id":155,"date":"2025-10-28T03:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:09:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:09:57","slug":"cat-meow-into-industrial-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Cat Meow into Industrial Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the &#8220;Make Noise From a Normal Sample&#8221; assignment, the goal was to take a simple, everyday sound and warp it in Audacity until it was completely unrecognizable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My original sound was a short clip of a cat meowing. It&#8217;s a very normal and familiar sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/732519__lukey1028__senior-cat-meow.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To transform it, I put it through a four-step process. First, I used the &#8220;Reverse&#8221; effect to make it play backward. Then, I used the &#8220;Change Speed&#8221; effect to slow the entire clip down, which made it much lower and more ominous. After that, I added an &#8220;Echo&#8221; effect. Finally, I applied the &#8220;Distortion&#8221; effect to add that gritty, noisy, and industrial texture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final result is a super loud sound that, unless told, youd likely would have no idea it originated from a cat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DistortedMeow by cvillami\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2200488331&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500&#038;secret_token=s-STlv6ZCybZx\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the &#8220;Make Noise From a Normal Sample&#8221; assignment, the goal was to take a simple, everyday sound and warp it in Audacity until it was completely unrecognizable. My original sound was a short clip of a cat meowing. It&#8217;s a very normal and familiar sound. To transform it, I put it through a four-step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}