Open Lab-Audition

Topics

  1. Open Lab
  2. Submission and Marking

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http://twistedsifter.com/2012/03/15-famous-quotes-on-creativity/

1. Open Lab

This is the third "Open Lab" of the semester. In case you are stuck for ideas, here are possible things that you could do (pick one only):

  1. Jason Levine has a great series of tutorials on Audition. Watch ONE of the following tutorials and record (in your learning journal or as a spoken message for me) FIVE things that you have learned from that video:
    1. How to Record your voice with adobe audition CC.
      The sound deliverable:
      • record the same 20 seconds of speech using three different recording devices. To minimize environmental differences, record them in the same environment. You can either upload the three separate recordings to sound cloud or combine them into one sound. Comment on the quality differences of each of the recordings. No screen shot of Adobe Audion is required for this one.

    2. How to Edit Audio with Adobe Audition CC.
      The sound deliverable:
      • record 60 seconds of speech repeating sections that you are practicing (as Jason has done in his original sound recording in the video). Reduce the sound sample by using techniques found in the video to select the pieces that you are interested in. Please upload two audio files to SoundCloud: one with the original recording and the other with the edited piece. No screen shot of Adobe Audion is required for this one.

    3. How to Edit using the Spectral Display in Audition CC.
      The sound deliverable can be ONE of the following:
      1. record 30 seconds of noise with speech in the background that is inaudible. Use the CSI techniques in the video to reduce the noise and hear the underlying speech. Please upload two audio files to SoundCloud: one with the original recording and the other with the edited piece. Take a screenshot of your spectral display before and after the noise is removed.
      2. record 30 second of voice where you have at least five plosives (sounds with pops--'p', 't', 'k', 'b', 'd', 'g'). Use the technique in the video to minimize these plosives. Take a screenshot of your spectral display before and after the plosives are removed. Upload your original and modified sound to SoundCloud.
      3. record 30 seconds of audio. Using the lasso tool, draw random pictures on the spectral display. A surprising sound may or may not be created. Take a screenshot of your original and resulting spectral display. Upload your original and modified sound to SoundCloud.

        For inspiration, did you know that Satanic figures are hidden in spectrograph of the the Doom 2016 soundtrack?
         
  2. Record FIVE sound effects. Each sound should be uploaded to SoundCloud either as one combined file or as five separate files. For inspiration, see The Beautiful Lies of Sound Design. Some highlights are: the sound of frying bacon is used to emulate rain and the sound of breaking celery sticks is used to emulate breaking bones. Make sure to document what you used to create your sound effect. Please do not delete these sound effects from the sound card. I might want to listen to your original recordings. No screen shot of Adobe Audition is required for this one.

  3. Download to your own personal machine and use FL Studio to design your own song with synthesized instrumentals. The length of the song can be only one minute. This might be challenging but worth it if you are excited about music. Deliverable will be a screenshot of your FL Studio environment. Your finished song will be uploaded to SoundCloud.

  4. Record vocals and instrumentals and mix them in Audition. Your deliverable will be a screenshot of your work environment and the finished mix uploaded to SoundCloud.

The above are just suggestions. If you feel inspired to do something in Audition, then let me know what you would like to explore. This lab is about giving YOU the chance to learn what interests you.

2. Submission and Marking

2.1 Submission

An entry in your online learning journal. This page will contain weekly entries for each of the CS205 labs. The deadline is the start time of your following week's lab.

Your learning journal for this week should contain:

  1. A heading for Lab 6 and a brief description of what tool was used and what you did (ie. for this lab, it might be something like  Lab 6: Audition and ...... fill in the dots with your exercise)
  2. As specified above, include original sound samples as well as processed sound. Where several tracks are layered or where there is an important visual, also please include a screenshot of your work environment (use Command-Shift-4 and space on a mac to take a snapshop of your environment).
  3. A learning journal entry which might contain any or all of the following: a description of what you've learned, challenges faced, any YouTube videos or tutorials that you found useful, any credits for content that you got from "open source", and anything that you might want to remember about what you've done for the future. If you watched any one of the Jason Levine videos, please make sure to include at least five things that you learned from his video.

Don't forget to detail what you've learned in your journal!!!

2.2 Mark Distribution