Task 11: Generate a Soundscape with AI

Activity

1. At AudioGen, write text prompts to generate at least two ambient sounds related to a single scene depicted in either your in-class activity story from last week, story from task 10, or hoax from task 9.
2. On the web or in the real world, find at least one non-AI ambient sound, either by recording it yourself or downloading from an online resource, related to the same scene.
3. In an audio editor,Mix the results in an audio editor. You can use the Audacity or Oceanaudio app you downloaded for Task 5.
4. Evaluate these aspects of the result:
   • The quality of the entire mixture as it relates your scene. Does it include all the sounds that you would expect? Does it give the same sort of feeling of the scene that was depicted?
   • Which sound portions might be better off excluded, or could be improved. Why?
   • Is the result a stereotype of the environment’s soundscape or a revelation about it?
5. Make some sort of change based on your evaluation. This could be adding a track, replacing a track with something different, or trying to refine a track with another attempt at the new location.
6. Re-mix your results and export as an mp3 file.
7. In WordPress, create a WordPress post with a title like Task 11: Mary Gonzalez – Sandy Park. Add the post to the Task 11 category.
8. Add the picture and short text description for the scene your ambient sounds are meant to depict.
9. Follow this with a paragraph of at least four sentences evaluating the results of your first mixture.
10. Attach an mp3 file for
    • Every separate sound track used for the mixtures, both before and after the evaluation.
    • The “before evaluation” ambient sound mix.
    • The “after evaluation” ambient sound mix.
11. In the Google Form, complete the survey after you are done with the task.

Resources

ℹ️ SoundBible and FreeSound are two places to download audio samples for free.

ℹ️ Slides on how to use Audacity to mix sounds