Busker to Beach

The daily create from today/yesterday was Create an audio of two sounds not normally heard together. I took two sounds that I had recorded for the UK Sound Map on Audio Boo. The result is:

While I don’t think the result is particularly creative or interesting I though the workflow was worth recording.

Easiest way to download the mp3s from AudioBoo was to switch to the RSS feed in safari and right click the MP3 link and choose save as.

Open One file in audacity.

Import other file with File -> Import ->Audio…

Fade out the first sound, as the second was so quiet in comparison I just left it in place. Deleted the section of the first track after the fade.

Bonus Image Merge

As Both AudioBoo, the source of the sounds and SoundCloud, where we were to publish the results, allow you to add a photo I thought it might be interesting to create an image fade to go with the audio.

Here is the recipe I used:

Open first AudioBoo page in Safari, view the larger image.

Drag image onto FireWorks on the dock.

Open second image and drag onto the first image in fireWorks

Drag a rect in fireworks over the second image.

Make it white and give it an opacity gradient.

Select the gradient Layer & the Image below.

Modify Menu->Mask -> Group as Mask

Adjust the opacity of the masked image so that the image below shines through.

The whole process was pretty quick which is quite important as I try to keep up with the daily create.