What is Music to You?

Brief Overview: 

My audio story is mainly about what music is to others and how they experience it whether that be through a music festival or just listening to it while doing homework. I interviewed many people about what music is to them and I also interviewed an expert who gives us her opinion on multiple different topics about music. Down below I have linked my full audio story and you are able to listen to it.

The Process: 

The process to making this audio story took a while because I interviewed four people to get all of the information that I needed in order to complete the story. We had to find background music that goes along with our story, so I picked an upbeat sound in order to keep my audience engaged throughout the whole story. My sound effect that I made is a guitar in the background when my expert (Julia Fiedler) was informing us what music means to her. The sound effect is me strumming the guitar and I lowered the volume so that my audience is still able to hear her speak. Within the audio story, I had to cut out some of the background noise that one could hear when I was interviewing some of my “people off of the street.” This was a longer process because it was hard to find where the background noise was coming from when looking at it in waveform. 

Overall:

This first major project for the class was an overall success in my opinion. I was able to apply most of the lessons that we learned in class and apply them to my audio story in order for it to sound right. The project was a good starter project for beginners learning how to work their way through audition.