{"id":56,"date":"2014-11-03T18:01:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T23:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/?p=56"},"modified":"2014-11-03T18:01:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T23:01:43","slug":"there-goes-the-last-dj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/assign\/there-goes-the-last-dj\/","title":{"rendered":"There goes the last DJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I agreed to give a mini-workshop on podcasting on Wednesday, to force myself to learn more about Audacity. Creating a <a href=\"http:\/\/assignments.ds106.us\/assignments\/creat-a-ds106-radio-bumper\/\">bumper for DS106 Radio<\/a> seemed like a good way to get started, and it&#8217;s a manageable amount of work for a 20-minute demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing, followed by how I made it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DS106 SciFi-ish Bumper by Joe Murphy 3\" width=\"474\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F175204859&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=711&#038;maxwidth=474\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First, I wanted to know what I&#8217;d be saying. The old Outer Limits opening came to mind &#8211; &#8220;we control the horizontal, we control the vertical.&#8221; That speaks a little to the &#8220;own your tools&#8221; ethos of DS106.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8CtjhWhw2I8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But if &#8220;we&#8221; control it, that suggests that &#8220;you&#8221; (the listener) doesn&#8217;t. And that doesn&#8217;t sound very DS106 at all. \u00a0So I rewrote it, for a participatory audio culture, to be &#8220;Radio DS106 &#8211; You control the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fender.com\/news\/amp-basics-whats-the-difference-between-gain-and-volume\/\">gain<\/a>; you control the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auto-Tune\">Auto-Tune<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I went hunting for an audio track to mix in. A search for &#8220;sci-fi&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/\">CCMixter<\/a>\u00a0turned up a track called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/files\/gurdonark\/30169\">Space Station Melody<\/a>&#8221; by a member called Gurdonark. (For a 15-second bump on a non-profit radio station, you could probably make a <a href=\"http:\/\/copyright.lib.utexas.edu\/copypol2.html\">fair use<\/a> argument for whatever you wanted to sample&#8230; but it&#8217;s also a chance for me to model <a href=\"http:\/\/search.creativecommons.org\/\">searching for Creative Commons-licensed material<\/a> for my faculty.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of funny, come to think of it&#8230; the futuristic pinging of Space Station Melody is more reminiscent of the pizzicato opening of The Twilight Zone than the dramatic strings and horns of The Outer Limits.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I recorded into Audacity, imported the Space Station Melody MP3, and arranged the voice track to the point in the music where I wanted it to start. I brought the volume of the music down a hair while I was talking with the Envelope tool, and used the Fade Out filter to get out. (And then trimmed off the end of the music.)<\/p>\n<p>I owe a link of thanks to Nicky Memita for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nixmemita.com\/ds106\/overcoming-audio-editing-fears\/\">her post on this assignment<\/a>, which was quite useful as I navigated Audacity&#8217;s imposing list of filters and effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agreed to give a mini-workshop on podcasting on Wednesday, to force myself to learn more about Audacity. Creating a bumper for DS106 Radio seemed like a good way to get started, and it&#8217;s a manageable amount of work for a 20-minute demonstration. Here&#8217;s the thing, followed by how I made it: First, I wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/assign\/there-goes-the-last-dj\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There goes the last DJ<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,17,18,19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assign","category-audio","category-audioassignments","category-audioassignments36","category-ds106-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53vXx-U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}