Lesson 5 - This week will be a foundation of Digital Audio. Read the handout and watch the video on how to record music into the computer.

Links for the week -

1. Audacity - if you have not download audacity yet, do so. I will be using this most of the semester to record audio.
2. Free Royality free music - bookmark this one. http://www.musopen.com
3. Audio is a very popular format for training on the Internet. Checkout this powerpoint training with audio.
4. Heres my Assignment audio example.

Heres examples of the Poem Reading from last semester

1. scary poem
2. 35 Wolves Baying

Training for the week -

1. Handout on audio basics
2. Tutorial for Audicity - web reading
3. Another Tutorial for Audacity - web reading
4. Page 92 in the web video book talks about microphones for recording.

Assignment for the week.

Poem and music mix. I want you to download my mystery music.

Mystery music Music in Zip format.

Then use Audacity to recorded your voice and mix with music and sound effects. See videos for this week. Save as a MP3 and email or post on the vimeo site. Yes I think you can post audio only.

Videos for this week.

1. Making a CD in i-tunes
2. Use Audacity 1
3. Use Audacity 2
4. Use Audacity 3

Link for the MP3 exporter.

Research for this week.

1. What is Podcasting - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
2. Pod cast directory - http://www.podcastalley.com/
3. http://www.soundsnap.com/ - sound effect web sites.

Books and Equipment - Heres some good reading if you want to learn more.

1. The Art of Recording - Author Willian Moylan ISBN - 0-442-00669-1 - This is good general recording - from 1991
2. Audio Postproduction for Film and Video - Author Jay Rose - ISBN 978-0-240-80971-7 This is an excellent book. If you want to buy an audio book I recommend this one. Check out the author web site. Jay Rose

Heres some videos slide shows from Spring 2009

1. http://vimeo.com/user1271699
2. http://vimeo.com/3427173
3. http://vimeo.com/user1341772
4. http://vimeo.com/agrout
5. http://vimeo.com/user1361322
6. http://vimeo.com/3382531