First sound project- making a car engine with a snapple bottle 

Rev Your Engine

Sound Exercise 2

For my first experience in the art of Foley, I overlayed 3 different zipper sounds with the E and A strings of my guitar in the hopes of creating a cartoony, whimsical space vehicle. Drawing inspiration from the colorful and playful world of Rainbow Road on Mario Cart Wii, I overlayed the two for a quick and zippy engine acceleration. On the zipper sounds, I applied bitcrushers and overdrive, while on the guitar strings I applied an ensemble modulation to bring the sound into a lighter, happier tone. No evil aliens here, just speed racing at light-speed in a far of galaxy.

Super Sonic Speed Racer

Walt Whitmans "Oh Captain! My Captain!" is a poem that's spoken to me ever since we watched Dead Poets Society in English class sophomore year of high school.  It was written to commemorate Abraham Lincoln after his death, with the United States as a metaphor for the ship. To me, it's always meant that your accomplishments and your impact live on longer than you ever could, the way Abraham Lincoln's did, and the same way Robin William's(who stars in Dead Poet's Society) did more recently. But I think there's another side to the poem. In the movie, the poem is treated as triumphant and celebratory. But, there is this element of sadness, grief and shock in the poem, as the sailor finds his captain "cold and dead." I went for a feel that is similar to the beach scene in Saving Private Ryan, and incorporated a sound I find brilliant in American Horror Story- that of the oscillating synth that signals something horrifying is about to happen. The Drum beat(played on my guitar and a coke can) emulate a march to encapsulate the triumphantness of the ship making landful, but one more somber as the captain is found dead. My vocal performance has reverb to make it sound like the poem is being read in large space, but alone. In this somber, grieving rendition of "Oh Captain! My Captain!", the absence of sound is almost more important than it's presence. 

Oh Captain My Captain

This podcast is a story that happened about four years ago in Parker,Colorado. I've spent years analyzing what happened, and what it meant to me and I'm excited to share valuable lessons that can be learned from a tragedy. 

EmilyHeadden

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