{"id":162,"date":"2025-10-28T03:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:46:30","slug":"audio-storytelling-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Audio Storytelling Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post is my summary of the first audio storytelling genre for ds106. The assignment required creating several audio projects, including a mandatory &#8220;Spooky Season&#8221; story and enough other assignments to total at least 9 stars. After creating each piece, I posted them to my blog and have collected them all here, along with a final reflection on the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Part I: My Audio Assignments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. Spooky Season (4 Stars)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=152\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"152\">Spooky Season<\/a><\/strong>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>This was the required assignment to create a 20+ second spooky story. I created a scene of someone walking in the rain and entering a haunted house.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Make Noise From a Normal Sample (3 Stars)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=155\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"155\">Cat Meow into Industrial Noise<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>For this assignment, I took a simple sound of a cat meowing and completely transformed it using distortion, reverse, and echo effects in Audacity.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. All the Relaxation (2 and a half Stars)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=160\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"160\">Relaxation<\/a><\/strong>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The goal here was to create a loopable, relaxing soundscape. I layered sounds of wind, rain, and a spontaneous bird call to build a peaceful natural scene.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Part II: My Reflection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was my first time diving deep into audio editing, and it was a really interesting experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>What did you learn?<\/strong> I learned the fundamentals of working with a digital audio workstation (Audacity). The most important skill I picked up was audio layering; learning that you build a &#8220;soundscape&#8221; by putting different tracks on top of each other. I also learned how to use the Time Shift tool to control <em>when<\/em> sounds happen, which was key for the Spooky Season story.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What drove you crazy? Why?<\/strong> The SoundCloud copyright bot. That was easily the most frustrating part. I used sounds from freesound, but my Spooky Season story still got flagged and taken down immediately. It drove me crazy because I was following the rules, but the automated system didn&#8217;t care. It was a good lesson in why you need a backup plan, and I was relieved I could just upload the MP3 directly to my blog.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What was harder than you thought it would be?<\/strong> Making something sound <em>good<\/em> was harder than I expected. It&#8217;s easy to drag and drop 10 sounds on top of each other, but it just sounds like a mess. The &#8220;All the Relaxation&#8221; assignment was a good example. I had to adjust the volume levels and use fades to make the wind, rain, and bird calls sound natural together, rather than just being a wall of noise.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What was easier?<\/strong> Honestly, getting started with Audacity was easier than I thought. It looks intimidating, but for these assignments, I only needed to know a few tools: the Selection tool, the Time Shift tool, and the &#8220;Effect&#8221; menu. The &#8220;Make Noise From a Normal Sample&#8221; assignment was really fun and surprisingly easy; just layering effects like Distortion and Reverse created a cool result really fast.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What did you enjoy? Why?<\/strong> I really enjoyed the &#8220;Make Noise&#8221; assignment. It felt like pure experimentation. There was no &#8220;right&#8221; answer, and it was a lot of fun to take a normal cat meow and completely destroy it with effects until it sounded like something from an industrial or sci-fi movie. It was a great way to learn what all the different effects do without any pressure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is my summary of the first audio storytelling genre for ds106. The assignment required creating several audio projects, including a mandatory &#8220;Spooky Season&#8221; story and enough other assignments to total at least 9 stars. 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