Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Music Concrete........Take 2

As it turns out my first attempt to do my music concrete turned out awful.  I thought it would be fun to do animal sounds..and I first decided to do cow sounds. I found a free site and downloaded free cow sounds.  I then imported all my sounds into audacity.  I inserted some space in the beginning so I would only have one cow sound playing at first then I slowly added more and more cow sounds.  After doing everything and finalizing my project....it sounded AWFUL!!!!   I thought I would be able to fix it up and change some sounds but I think no matter what I did the project would sounds awful. I feel the cow sounds by themselves were pretty bad so I thought it would be really hard to make a success project. 

So.....I decided to delete the whole project and start from scratch again. I found some kitchen sounds.  I decided to give these sounds a shot. I found so frying sounds, boiling sounds and chopping sounds. After importing my free sounds into audacity I decided my project would start with a boiling sound and added silence to my other sounds.   I then added another boiling sound and continued with the silence with my other sounds.   Then I added the chopping into my project.   Towards the end of the chopping I added frying into my project.  I also used two frying sounds.  Towards the end of the project I had all three boiling, frying and chopping happening at once. 

I think this one turned out much better then the cow project.  Also, doing it a second time I feel like I got more comfortable using audacity and I feel it is a wonderful tool to know how to use correctly! 


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