Audio Project
Beat Sample made by Spenser Elan using various samples and brum sounds.
Now that you've gotten the basics down for mixing audio in Audacity it's time to make your own song. You will be downloading sounds from the site freesound.org.
You can preview the different sounds on the site, but to download them you will need to create a free account. Use your school email for this unless you would like to use this site on your own later.
You can also play around with this site to create sounds. If you use the effects (see below) in audacity you can modify these sounds even more.
This site will also let you create clips of music you can download. Make your song, click save, and then download the WAV file. There are other music/sound creators on that site also, but some may not let you save them.
Make sure you create a folder on your computer to download your files to! This will help you keep everything organized.
As you're making your song there are a couple of other tools you may want to use in Audacity.
The first is under Track>Mix>Mix and Render. Use this if you have a lot of tracks and you want to combine them into one. Select the tracks you want to mix and choose the Mix and Render to merge them into one track.
The other useful tools are under the Effect menu. Use these to change how your various audio tracks sound. Try experimenting with the different effects to see what they do.
Project requirements & Info
Project Length - 30 seconds to 1 minute
NO full premade songs, beats, rhythms etc. - your song must be original! You can use short samples as long as you add original sounds to it.
Does making a song seem too hard? Try making an ambient track or something out of random sounds.
You can expand on the beat you made on the previous assignment or do something new (recommended).
You must use a minimum (minimum is a C) of 3 distinctly different sounds/tracks.
Your song should communicate a mood of some type - happiness, sadness, anger, calming, anxious, etc.
Be creative!! You have a 3 classes to work on this. Use one for experimenting, one to assemble your music, and the last to finish it off and turn it in. Also, Audacity is free so if you have a computer at home you can work on it there (ask for help with transferring your project).
