Can you guess the story?
Working as sound designers and story tellers, 12th grade students created 1-2 minute abstract audio fictions. They were asked to design a vivid sound narrative without the use of any dialogue. They could only use sounds that they recorded in the field with a portable audio device and/or custom sounds they designed in the music creation program, Reason. Students were not allowed to download any online samples, everything here is 100% original.
You can listen below to see if you can guess what each story is about. Please post comments with your guesses. (We will post the answers in a few weeks.)
1. Tag created by Tristan Macaraeg and Pascal Reyes
2. Orchestral Dreams created by Noah Schlottman
3. First Strike created by Robin Siref and Shai Simpson
4. Catastrophe created by Tomas Pena
5. No Lights created by Carli Anderson and Jacqueline Lira
6. The Turning Point created Claire Anne Brand and Brandi Coley
7. Flatline created Christian Cota and Katerina Beatty
8. Lighters created by Evanglyn Bighames and Valeh Aboonour
9. Pal created by Kadija Grant
10. SMS created by Alex Machado and Brandy Bussell
11. Daily Struggle created by Megan Bailey and Jonathan Silva
12. The Ring created by Miriam Mwanga and Ally Moder
13. Cold Feet created by James Armenta and Nia Gamboa
14. Creaky Floorboards created by Alex Ford and Erica Snider
15. 3am created by Alvaro Chagollan and Marla Villamar
16. White Walls created by Jana Arguelles-Ruvalcaba and Rachael Dickey
17. The Trip created by Morgan Barrett and Siarah Loyd
18. Wink created by Austin Clapp and Shoshannah Michaelsen
19. One Bad Day created by Alex Aguilar and David Resendiz
20. The Wait created by Shaelyn Washburn and Iberia Dunning
21. Department of Wasted Time created by Stephanie Barria and Spencer Scott
22. The Date created by Maleaja Cokes and Louis Tabalon
23. Alive created by Annalisa Madruga and Annapaula Garciabueno
I really liked number 23 “Alive” .. full of great sound quality and voice !
Nice work ,
Jo
Orchestral Dreams – brilliant!
I love this idea and will be sharing some of them with my third graders, and have them write the story they think goes with it. I’ll admit, Alive will be popular and easy for them to follow. It’s a good thing I listened to them first, though! Wink would be somewhat inappropriate for 8 year olds! Nonetheless, it’s a great idea and I enjoyed listening and closing my eyes for a change.
Thank-you so much for sharing! What a great idea. When you close your eyes and hear the sounds,
you see the whole story in your head and feel the impact of every sound. Fantastic way to show the importance of sound, the impact it has, and the associations we have with different sounds. Your school is an
inspiriation to me.
The first one, created by Tristan & Pascal, sounds like a group of graffiti teens spraying on a wall, then got busted!
The Ring created by Miriam Mwanga and Ally Moder is like One was walking and took something from the kitchen. While doing something in the kitchen the phone rang. He got it and he was angry. Then he hardly breathed and got cough. Finnaly he had gone. Is that right?