ACTIVITYSTORY/Sounds/ < 1 second of sound

Selected Recordings by P:

& um (j x p):
from the jmix project, 2004
work sound:
from kind of, 2004
Aperture Card
2002 (reworked, 2004)
Diet Wine Tonite!
2002
Phony D's Nothing
Doing Dub
2001
Vitamin Z
1999
Tjaded
1999
440
1998
What You Make it Man
1998

< 1 Second of Sound

Original Assignment, July 1, 2004:

Fact: I hate the alert sounds on my computer. Hate them, hate them, hate them.

Fact: Greg & I have been racking our brains for ideas for further assignments.

Listen Up: What I'm about to propose might be the solution to my alert sound problem as well as the perfect way to get some of y'all less-complyin' fools to embrace your assignments.

The Assignment: Create, by July 31, an audio file no more than 1 second in length.

That's the only requirement. Use whatever you like to create it, as many sounds, and from wherever you want. I'll post them all on August 1 and we can reflect on them, categorize them, choose our favorites, and maybe even mix & remix them together (a la the jmix project).

Please submit files in .wav, .aiff, or .mp3 formats. Actually, even tape is fine. Just get them to me somehow. If you are new to audio software, check out Audacity for the Mac or Windows. If you have questions, post them as comments to this post and someone else rocking the assignment will surely answer them.

Please enter only once, and feel free to send your sound before the deadline.

Happy sounding!

Results, August 2, 2004

The sounds are in! Below are the results of the <1 second of sound assignment... some would make good alert sounds, some are longer than a second, and all are exactly what I wanted to hear. I'm going to load them all onto my mp3 player to keep things interesting when I'm in shuffle mode. Please feel free to do the same.

Thanks to everyone who submitted sounds, y'all rule. If anyone still has some to submit, bring them on.

Sam

help me

PC available

sam burns

Greg