This week 2 things are happening simultaneously!
You've got a midterm to take! It's due by the close of day on 10/13.
Second, you will do hands-on practice with the using Audacity instructions found in the Course Reader.
If you're not using Audacity and have chosen to use Garageband or some other audio editor, then check the Digital Audio Editor Tutorials for this week and find some helpful instructional links to other audio editor software programs.
Part of this hands-on practice with your audio software will be to work on Part 2 of your Audio Project: Record, download, assemble sound effects from your list you created last week.
You may have a portable digital recorder (or perhaps you can borrow one?) to capture some sounds that you think will fit into your soundscape. You could even use a smartphone, but you will need to practice first.
Remember that you can make a sound and edit into sounding like something else after the fact: for example, Hitchcock liked the idea of recording carrots being broken in half to sound like bones breaking and you can change the pitch of the sound in the editor you use and actually manipulate it in a multitude of ways into whatever you like to make the proper effect in your soundscape.
These sounds will then be placed into various tracks in your editor since many sounds happen simultaneously in our world and they need to be happening at the same time in your soundscape so you will have multiple audio tracks happening in the same part of the timeline in the software. In my swimming pool example, you would hear the ball splashes, the swimmer’s splashes, the coaches whistle, etc all happening in the same time but sporadically, of course, with the whistle for example and those are laid out in multiple audio tracks which you will learn about next week.