Sizzling Fajitas, Sand being blown, lizard scurrying off a rock, Horse trotting, Writing on a chalkboard

Everything

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Happy Brithday 2 Remixed

MUE Soundscape

Just as my process for Stauffer2Library, I included the same effects as before. Not much has changed and I wanted to make it as realistic as possible. So, I did the same things. Recorded my walk to the MU from the Library and enhanced some sounds, deleted some sounds. Within my recording I actually had more vibrations from my phone, but I did not want to include it or else it would have been mostly the whole sound file. Technology was a great contribution to this file because it was the main idea of what I wanted to incorporate. It caught the actual sound effects that I encounter daily. 

Library2MU

The MU is a very diverse space. In Step 2, I realized that there is a lot going on. Therefore, when I thought of doing this soundfile, I thought of all the diverse people that eat at the MU. Many of those people are different from each other and listen to different types of music. That’s how I got the idea of combining different genres together and having The Beatles finish off the file with Come Together. I recorded all the audio from my iTunes onto Audacity. All the music in the file is music on my personal iTunes since I listen to a wide range of music. It was very interesting to figure out how to transition one file to the next, but then I thought there was no real need to have a specific order of songs. Each songs can be placed randomly, just as the MU is with all the different students sitting with one another. I was not able to include midi in this file. Abelton is a very hard software for me to grasp and every time I went to work on this audio file and try to include midi, I would mess it up. 

Location MU

The library is known to the public as a more quieter area.  Instead of interpreting the location by the exterior of the building I decided to incorporate the sound from the interior of the building: quiet, serene, peaceful. Therefore, I decided to include in the file what is known as elevator music. I felt like elevator music was the perfect touch for the library. It is not too loud but not to soft. Elevator music can be very soft or it can be very catchy. Either or I felt like the sounds I included in the file worked very well with the location of the library. I, again, used audio files. I recorded the files onto Audacity and then worked with them on there. I quieted the music down so it was not too loud, used some of the filters on some areas of the file to add more effect as well. Technology was not a big use in this file, besides the fact that I used it to record the elevator music from sources. I did not, however, actually go to an elevator and record the specific elevator music provided. The elevators at school do not have elevator music and did not contribute to my creation of this file. 

Location Library

Step 2 wasn’t really something that had helped me create the sound file for this building. Since I am a student for Digital Culture, I am aware of the activities and classes that go on in this building and I figured that since everything is very innovative within the Stauffer building walls, techno music would have been the best type of music to have to represent this building. I had to figure out and listen to different type of techno songs and combine them together to create one music file. I used mostly audio but a little midi. I am not very fond of midi and it is not very fond of me, so I tried to use as little as possible within the project to not butcher nor take away what I am trying to have the listener hear. The audios I recorded were from different sources. I had to fade them in and out to transition each different piece together. I then had to work on sound and white noise and echo effects. 

Location Stauffer

The walk between these two buildings is just like a normal walk through campus, high traffic, students passing by me with skateboards, skates, bikes, etc. I decided to just include my flip flops of me walking with the constant random noises that go by me on a daily basis. I added the plane because campus is by the airport and I feel like I hear a plan pass by at least once everyday. My phone vibrates usually at a constant random due to people texting me to meet up for lunch or to keep in touch, etc. So, from there I figured out a way to incorporate all of those sounds.  I then decided the best way to include all those effects are through audio files, so I recorded myself walking from the Stauffer building with my phone and camera and enhanced all the sounds I had come across and added them into my process. I structured my music in a timely manner, meaning when I heard it go off in the video I added it onto my music. I mostly used Audacity is all my music files to record the sounds onto the computer individually and then edit them. 

Amreyes