Session 10: Final Podcast
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SHOW NOTES: The Audio Montage - Using Audio To Evoke Emotion
For my last assignment I've included two podcasts. The first podcast I've produced is an audio montage using a collage of press conference sound bites, choral singing, natural sounds recorded in the field, a contemporary song and various sound effects.
This audio montage isn’t a political statement nor is it intended to support or condemn a particular administration’s decision-making process. The intent of this podcast montage is to demonstrate how a collage of audio produced can evoke an emotional response from the listener. Audio collages offer a challenge in the editing process by requiring a discerning use of elements such as sound, timing and story development.
PRESS CONFERENCE SOUNDBITE DATES
April 9, 2003 - Iraq will be disarmed of its weapons of mass destruction
August 26, 2002 - Dick Cheney - There is no doubt Saddam has WMD
March 20, 2003 - Donald Rumsfeld - What is the task, does it involve finding the WMD
October 7, 2002 - George W. Bush - Mushroom Cloud
June 24, 2003 - Donald Rumsfeld - Does Iraq have nuclear WMDS - fact number one
July 12, 2004 - British Anti War Demonstration
September 14, 2004 - Colin Powell - Have you found stockpiles of WMD in Iraq
October 7, 2004 - George W. Bush - There are no WMD in Iraq - confirmed
January 14, 2005 - George W. Bush interview
THE LETTER
The letter recited in the podcast was comprised from excerpts of letters from US soldiers in Iraq. These letters were published November 11, 2003, in the New York Times. The excerpts were taken from the following letters:
Excerpts of letters from Army Capt. Joshua T. Byers, 29, of Anderson, S.C., who was killed on July 23 when a bomb detonated under his vehicle.
Excerpt of a letter from Army Pvt. Robert L. Frantz, 19, of San Antonio, who was killed June 17 when he was struck by a grenade. The letter was postmarked June 15.
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In addition to the audio montage podcast I’ve included a second audio download as an example of editing sound, rhythm and tempo. To help demonstrate this process, my old friend Vox Humano, along with his backup singers the HuManiacs, perform the Clash’s hit song, Rock the Casbah. Download here!
To help you develop your own editing skills in sound, timing and story development I’ve included the following challenge. If you are interested in writing and recording your own version of the song:
• Download the instrumental midi file by clicking here!
• Use the online AT&T voice synthesizer to select the various voices found here!
• Cut and paste the Casbah lyrics found below into the voice synthesizer and edit the WAV file into a second audio track B (the midi file is on track A).
Now you, too, can Rock the Casbah with Vox Humano and the HuManiacs!
The Clash › Rock The Casbah Lyrics:
Now the king told the boogie men, you have to let that raga drop. The oil down the desert way has been shaken to the top. The sheik he drove his Cadillac, He went a cruisnin down the ville. The muezzin was a standing, on the radiator grille.
Chorus
The Shareef don’t like it. Rockin the Casbah. Rock the Casbah. The Shareef don’t like it. Rockin the Casbah. Rock the Casbah
By order of the prophet, we ban that boogie sound. Degenerate the faithful, with that crazy Casbah sound. But the beduin they brought out, the electric camel drum.
The local guitar picker, got his guitar picking thumb. As soon as the Shareef had cleared the square, they began to wail
Chorus
Now over at the temple. Oh! They really pack’m in. The in crowd say it’s cool to dig this chanting thing. But as the wind changed direction. The temple band took five. The crowd caught a whiff of that crazy Casbah jive.
Chorus
The king called up his jet fighters. He said you better earn your pay. Drop your bombs between the minarets, down the Casbah way. As soon as the Shareef was chauffeured outta there, the jet pilots tuned to the cockpit radio blare. As soon as the Shareef was outta their hair the jet pilots wailed
Chorus
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posted by DiscoverEDU at 12:35 AM
4 Comments:
Very nice! Your montage was outstanding and Vox had me rocking to the groove. Well, not quite but still it was fun!
I think this takes the cake for most creative song throughout the class, nic job. I really enjoyed both podcasts. Good luck with everything, and thanks fo the thoughts on the Mic Cert.
Dale :-)
I am sorry that you did not have more dialog this past week on your site. I was excited to see what others though about your song...oh that reminds me to download the goodies here.
Enjoy your summer!
Dale :-)
Hey Dale,
No sweat here...
The lack of participation from our fellow scholars is most likely due to this being the last assignment and the possibility that the content of the audio montage was too controversial to comment on. Perhaps some missed the point of both the montage and the song in being audio editing exercises and nothing more. These are elementary exercises in audio when I was in school.
This class has been an interesting experiment for me. From my perspective I enjoyed working with audio under the self-imposed restrictions of a classroom teacher. It is possible that good podcasting can be achieved by the classroom teacher with a minimal amount of tools and a lot of creativity.
Audio is a much simpler median to work with compared to video. To create with video... (Now here’s a new can of worms to unravel!) In addition to the audio problems encountered throughout this course, video presents unique and numerous challenges in scripting, lighting, capturing, transferring, editing and publishing for the designer.
That sounds like another course.
Take care...
James
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