inspiration (audio)

"Writing is as much a sonic practice as a textual one"




Philip Tagg

What a Scream!

--experimenting with detective themes--

From YouTube description:

One of fifteen experiments in writing typical detective themes, "I Recall Bacall" has been set here to classic film noir footage. Silly credits are added in typical forties font. I use this music (and visual) genre study in my film music teaching.

Others: at Tagg audio

Intel Inside (Jingle Analysis)

From YouTube description: Part 1 of extended version demonstrating what the famous 4-note Intel inside jingle mans and how it works. Part 2 is longer and includes intertextual connotations and musical commutations.

Audio, Week 4

So you've captured and edited audio. You've downloaded (public domain) audio and edited together multiple tracks.

You've played with audio. You've shared it (some). We'll share more in class 2/12. We'll share it by loading it into our common assets.

But right now you are just playing with audio. It needn't be a high quality piece. Production needn't be high. It doesn't even need to make sense. It just needs to show that you know how to mess with audio.

After that, the real work begins.

If you choose to create an audio project for your final assignment, you'll want to think about the kind of "thing" you'd like it to be. an audio essay? soundscape? a sound portrait? something else?

Perhaps you are interested in creating the first episode in a new podcast series. Or developing a podcast-like project to share with the National Conversation on Writing or some other structure designed for sharing.

Lots of great ideas are available in your book (Multimodal Composition) and in the "inspiration" posts located here and in your classmate's blogs.

What is a podcast?