COM ARTS 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Free Music Archive, Ira Glass, Tascam
1 Dec 2016
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Ca 155 - lecture 15 - sound fundamentals. In teams of 2 or 3, use the tascam zoom and adobe audition to create 2-4 minute (5 minute max) audio story about something happening on campus. Finding great story usually takes longer than recording, mixing, editing the story. Ira glass" two building blocks of radio storytelling. Anecdote: sequence of actions -- story in its purest form. Moment of reflection: what it all means -- don"t forget this part! Beware of annoying dinner party guest syndrome (only talking about self or focus on a person) Frequency: number of cycles per second (waves per second); unit is hertz (hz) Sound wave: sound is a wave of energy. Wavelength : from one crest to other. Range of human hearing is 20hz to 20 khz. Measured from crest to midline of sound wave. Adobe audition"s waveform editor displays amplitude of wave. Sample rate: number of samples per second.
