For the audio assignment I chose the word "shenanigans." Why: For reasons I'm not even sure of. Most of the process for creating this bit of audio was unpremeditated, including the title. The only thing I knew before messing with audacity—before ever actually opening audacity—was that I wanted to create something creepy sounding. I notice I have some kind of infatuation with creepy, eerie themes. I'm not sure why, but it just makes the whole creating process a bit more interesting and entertaining for me.
Since I wanted to make it creepy I searched for some sort of "Roaring 20's" type music to play throughout my clip. I always felt this type of record playing/old time radio music sounded extensively unpleasant when played with a lower tempo/pitch or just played backwards. I found a couple royalty free songs and messed with their tempos, pitches, and added a couple effects to them to make them sound the way they do in my clip. I also applied a low pitched chirp that plays through most of the entire track, giving the audio a low hum, imitating some sort of amp feedback coming from the back.
I added a few cuts of noise to add to the feedback imitation and to give it a distressing sort of feel to it. I added in a conversation I had with my friend and changed the pitch and added a few affects so that all you can hear is a low grumble of sounds throughout most of the clip, and towards the end you finally hear my word. You'll hear my friend saying "shenanigans!" but I altered the audio so much that it's hard to discern what he's saying at all. Then some white noise will come in low and gradually gain in volume until you hear him once again, loud and clear, yell "SHENANIGANS!" My clip ends with the same friend laughing. I thought he had a pretty creepy laugh so I wanted to put that in the end. And I finish it off with a couple noise breaks.
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