M. Marshall 2.7
This is the radio bumper I created, I used the beginning and end beats of Taylor Swift’s song Cruel Summer. It was easier than I was anticipating so hopefully I did alright. I hope you enjoy!
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Weekly Summary
I had a lot of fun with the audio assignments this week. That was one of my main goals of taking this course; That I will get more comfortable with recording myself/my voice. I accomplished that!
The first assignment I started with was creating a radio bumper for the DS106 radio station. I’ve never made anything like this, so the material was new to me. It took me a little while to get set up, but it wasn’t too bad.
My favorite part about this assignment is that my bumper got played on the DS106 radio station. How cool is that?!
Listening to Moon Graffiti & Other Weekly Materials:
I’d never really thought about how important and powerful sound is in storytelling. While listening to “Moon Graffiti”, I could tell you what the setting was, the tone/atmosphere, how the characters feel, and overall, what’s going on just by listening to this audio story.
Abumrad’s videos were very insightful and broke down sound, storytelling, and creation down to its core fundamentals. Very intuitive videos!
I talk more about the reading materials in my post.
Sound Effects Story – Assignment Bank
I created a Sound Effect Story where people were having fun on a roller coaster ride. The sounds I put together were of people screaming, laughing, talking, clapping, and having fun with rollercoaster sound effects.
This was my first time creating something like this and playing around with all of the other tools on Audacity. Click the sound effect story link above to learn more about how I created the sound story.
DS106 RADIO EXPERIENCE
This radio experience was awesome! While listening to the radio, we also collectively had a discussion on discord about the material.
And my bumper was played on air!! It felt really good to hear my work on air and to have other people listen to it too.
I talked more about the different types of sound effects and how I used them in my post.
SICK BEATSSS
I chose to complete the Sick beat – Assignment this week. The only real requirement was to “just get groovy dood.” I enjoyed making this beat, so I hope you guys like it too. Check out my post for more info.
Sapphria Mae’s Favorite Mashup
The last creation I made this week was completing the P!NK’s Emotions Assignment. The inspiration behind this assignment is from my character Sapphria Mae. I wanted to use this opportunity to build her personality a little bit more through music.
I used Audacity to create this P!nk Mashup. I used different songs from P!nk that I felt were inspiring and relatable to my archetype character. I felt these songs would be relatable on an emotional level.
Daily Creates Shenanigans – Your Weekly Adrenaline Rush
I made 3 daily creations this week. I also tried to up my commenting game and become more engaged with other through commenting and liking post.
In my post with the link above I have each individual daily create with the inspiration to it. My favorite DC this week was the antispam word poem.
Radio Show Ideas – Your Weekly Adrenaline Rush
Last but not least! I came up with some radio show ideas for our future assignments. I think this group assignment will be a great experience. I can’t wait to meet and talk with my group members and use some of our ideas together to create our radio talk show! My ideas are posted in the link above.
Overall:
I lowkey thought I would have a really hard time this week’s assignments because I wasn’t familiar with the material. Although, it all came to me really quickly and I learned a lot about audio storytelling, the power of sound effects and music, and so much more. I also got the opportunity to build up my character a little more which I love!!
Oh, and I didn’t forget to vote on my FAVE post this week! Great job everyone! Thank you all for another awesome week! 
Radio Show Ideas
Couple show ideas I could think of:
- Radio show where a group of college students start a radio show together. They start making millions of dollars and then they try to steal the show from each other or sabotage each other on the show. Maybe they start making comments like “Hmm.. We all know someone who is selfish” and it gets quiet or awkward and then the chill one out of the group is like “Hey you guys shut up, we have a new song to share with the people, hahaa” and then a 20-30 second snippet of a beat/song plays. And so on and so on.
- A lifestyle radio show where the group will talk about random topics as if they were the actual archetype characters. Topics like dating, eating healthy, or we have people “call in” and tell us about their crappy roommate and we all give them a piece of unsolicited advice. I know this sounds simple, but I think it could actually turn out to be really funny. Example, someone calls into the radio show and is like, “I have a question for Ms. Femme Fatale” and they ask a question about dating advice haha or someone else calls in and asks the Mastermind Bank Heister how he makes an honest living. Mainly the show will be for entertainment purposes and will intend to be sarcastic, humorous, and things like that.
Daily Creates Shenanigans
I made 3 daily creations this week. I also tried to up my commenting game and become more engaged with other through commenting and liking post.
My 3 DC posts:
Lips!! I made this on Canva. I chose a gradient back drop and then moved the words around to create the lips.
I found this image on google. I couldn’t imagine playing mini-golf here!!
My response:
My antispam word was: hod quill. I’m really struggling to create a poem using these words. But this is what I came up with:
Kevin’s meandering mind moved homes.
His new home is online and named hod.
He moved because his last home “quill-ed” the vibe”
The end.
I did my best.
The End of the Daily Create Shenanigans haha!
Sapphria Mae’s Favorite Mashup
**Warning, music mashup below has explicit language**
I don’t own any of the rights to this music.
I would share this from sound cloud, but it won’t let me because I’ve used another artist’s songs, but I uploaded the mashup I created below.
The last creation I made this week was completing the P!NK’s Emotions Assignment. The inspiration behind this assignment is from my character Sapphria Mae. I wanted to use this opportunity to build her personality a little bit more through music.
P!nk is well known for being a rock-influenced pop singer with a distinctive powerful raspy voice. Sapphria Mae is intended to be a distinctive character and will use her voice powerfully, just in a different way. I feel like p!nk is also fearless in her own right and is absolutely stunning while rough around the edges, I mean this by saying P!nk doesn’t mind taking chances and going after what she wants. That is why I chose for Sapphria Mae to listen to music that will also resonate with her character; Fearless, breathtaking, edgy.
Another correlation on why Sapphria Mae listens to p!nk is because she can relate to her on an emotional level. P!nk doesn’t mind pushing boundaries or challenging authority through her music and image. Sapphria Mae’s character feels her emotions in the same way. Being told no won’t necessarily stop her from achieving her goals or going after something she wants. Sapphria also loves a good challenge and doesn’t mind challenging anyone.
I used Audacity to create this P!nk Mashup. These are the songs I chose with a brief description of why I chose these for Sapphria Mae:
- Just Like a Pill (Escapism, vulnerability, facing frustrated fears, leaving and not knowing where she’s going, knowing how to set herself free)
- Don’t Let Me Get Me (Self confliction, hazard to herself and she knows it, too powerful for her own good, she knows what she’s capable of)
- F*ckin Perfect (embracing herself, perfection – Sapphria Mae is perfect, well she definitely thinks so and doesn’t care if anyone else thinks it)
- So What (SO WHAT? – Confident, fierce, fearless)
Basically, Sapphria Mae didn’t choose this life – it chose her.
Hope you guys enjoyed the tunes and enjoyed diving deeper into my characters emotions and personality.
DS106 Radio Experience
I mean, WOW!! I had an amazing experience when tuning into the ds106 radio station last night. While listening to the radio, we also collectively had a discussion on discord about the material. It was impressive to pick and pull apart what we were actually listening to. I realized that sound, especially music, heavily impacts mood and atmosphere. Everything that I’ve been learning from this week’s material came to real life.
Also, I found out that I was the first one to publish a bumper for the radio station and my bumper was played on air!! It felt really good to hear my work on air and to have other people listen to it too.
The different types of sound effects that I heard that really impacted the mood, atmosphere, or setting were:
- The different music that was played. Some music made the setting very suspenseful and thrilling. Nail biting, actually. Other types of music made the setting sound nostalgic, calming, or intuitive.
- Sound effects like birds chirping, kids playing at a park, and traffic. I knew the characters were talking outside. I could tell when they moved spots at the park. Also, I know this isn’t really a “sound effect” but SILENCE!!! When there was no other sound when the characters talking, it felt intense at times and other times I could feel the characters getting a sense of comfortability with each other.
All in all, I had a great experience, and I can’t wait to tune in again soon.
How was that Tech-Noir?
prompt: Visualize telepathy in a noir setting with a cyborg cat as a disinterested bystander
That’s a question we could ask of Limetown. There is a mystery element to it, in the disappearance of a small town’s entire population. And there is the intrepid reporter acting as a bit of a detective and a bit of an innocent bystander swept up in forces beyond her control. These are noir tropes. Tech-noir typically has a futuristic setting though, whereas Limetown is an investigation of the past. One could also argue that tech-noir is of the past, in that Blade Runner‘s setting and The Terminator‘s Judgement Day are chronologically now in the rear view mirror. The tech element comes in with the telepathic technology that was under development in Limetown.
There is a back story to Limetown, hinted at along the way and confirmed in the finale – a story of corporate espionage. This is the part that really fascinated me – the idea of a shadowy corporation that could build Limetown and hide its purpose from everyone, then wipe out the population without a trace and just drive away. Although actually there were two shadowy corporations: one that built the experiment and one that bought off the principles and disappeared the subjects.
As the story went on, in the book and second season, it was all about the reporter. That disappointed me because I thought the back story had so many more possibilities, with moles and mercs and machinations. The implication is that there were other Limetowns, that the tech worked and continued to be developed, and presumably was in use somehow/somewhere. There is fertile ground there for fan fic. That kind of unbound corporate power is also part of tech-noir, and that’s where I see the connection.
What would the world look like if select people had an implant-enabled, brain-to-brain internet? What would people do with that kind of power? How would our noir archetypes act in such a scenario? It would be interesting to see what kind of stories we could build from these ideas, although I may be the only one interested.
A hubcap diamond star halo
The challenge for today’s Daily Create was to draw a T Rex. I considered attempting to sketch Marc Bolan, but liked the idea of a hubcap diamond star halo better. I also liked the vieo idea, so I found an image of a hubcap and one of a T Rex album cover and combined them in a PowerPoint animation with diamond and star shapes and exported it as a video. I recorded a snippet of their famous song and put that together with the video in iMovie. That was actually a bit of work to avoid actually drawing. Maybe I need to rethink my strategy.
ds106 radio bumper
I was really nervous about posting this. I haven’t always felt confident or comfortable in the way I sound in recordings, but I took my best shot at this assignment. This was also one of my goals when I first started this class; Was to become more comfortable with recording myself or creating audio content!
I had a lot of fun creating this bumper. It didn’t take me very long to come up with what I wanted to say. I recorded my bumper announcement on Audacity and started editing the audio track from there. I first began to listen to the different sound effects and generative tools. I found a couple sounds I liked and added them, then I organized them and put them where I wanted them to go after listening to the track a few times.
The only thing that I am uncertain about is the way the bass/drums sound in the back. So, I’d love to hear some feedback on that. I wanted the bumper to feel upbeat and alive! The other sound effects sounded techno and radio station-like to me so that’s why I chose those sounds. Although I’m not sure yet on how to add in music or other beats. I’m actually trying to play around with this now.
Thank you guys for listening to my DS106 radio bumper. I can’t wait to receive feedback on this
Do you see what I hear
We had our first night of collaborative listening on ds106radio tonight with a small but active group. We listened to the tale of Limetown, and heard voices and background music used to great effect. What I find more interesting though are the subtle noises, and just how much they let us visualize the scene, whether it’s day or night, or the size of the room the characters are in, or who’s on the other end of the phone.
We could also ask, What makes this tech noir? There is a mystery, the disappearance of the entire population of a small town, and powerful unknown forces behind it. The main character is an investigative journalist who seems to be getting caught up in a situation beyond her control. Not exactly an innocent bystander, but adjacent to the archetype. Thanks to @PreRandom and @ryee for joining in, and we hope to me more people join Tuesday evening.