Tech Integration Project
Lesson Accelerator: Project Launcher

What Does Sound Look Like?
Application: Audacity 1.1.1
Platform: Mac

Description

The process for creating the example project using Audacity™ sound-editing software is described below. The Completed Project Movie shows you what the example project might look like. The tutorial movies that follow demonstrate, step-by-step, how to examine audio files graphically and edit music. This project can be easily modified in order to create and edit audio files relevant to any subject under study. For a complete project description, including goals, objectives, and materials needed, see the Project Overview.
The Example Project
The Completed Project movie will show you what the completed example project looks like.
 Completed Project Movie
Key # Length
1. preview What the example project looks like 18889 0:47
Subscribers have access to download the resource materials for this project, which includes all example files, an assessment rubric, and information about adapting and extending the example project.
Creating Your Own Project
We'll begin by importing audio into Audacity. We'll explore the audio waveform and identify drum beats and instrument attacks in the amplitude, as well as take a quick look at the relationship between frequency and pitch. Then, we'll cut silence out of the song, fade it out, and crossfade it with another song. Finally, we'll find a 4-measure loop, remove it from the song, and save the new song as a WAV file.
Key # Length
1. locked Importing the audio file 18879 1:21
2. locked Seeing the beat 18880 3:26
3. locked Investigating pitch 18881 2:27
Key # Length
1. locked Cutting out the silence 18882 2:38
2. locked Fading out 18883 3:40
3. locked Crossfading 18884 4:55
Key # Length
1. locked Finding the loop 18885 3:05
2. locked Selecting the loop 18886 2:11
3. locked Extracting the loop 18887 1:38
4. locked Bouncing the new song 18888 1:23
Tutorial series by Christopher Boldon