Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound
Working the Raw Mix
A course by Ana Cecilia Calle , Writer, Editor, and DJ
About the video: Working the Raw Mix
Overview
“In this lesson you will put the recording pieces together for the first time. I will teach you to listen to find transition points and to look for sound resources that help to narrate the piece without resorting to a narrator. ”
In this video lesson Ana Cecilia Calle addresses the topic: Working the Raw Mix, which is part of the Domestika online course: Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound. Learn to develop, produce, and edit a memorable, character-driven audio story to share with the world.
Partial transcription of the video
“Work the raw mixture In this lesson we are going to put together for the first time the audio pieces of the recording in our software and we will do a first raw listening to identify transition points and then we will identify sounds who can help us tell our story without the need to use a narrator. As I told you in the previous lesson, the audio editing program I use is called REAPER. you can use the one you want and the one with which you feel more comfortable or comfortable. You can work in Audition, you can work in Pro Tools. REAPER seems to me to have several advantages. You can use th...”
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Course summary for: Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound
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Category
Music & Audio, Writing -
Areas
Audio, Communication, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Podcasting, Script

Ana Cecilia Calle
A course by Ana Cecilia Calle
Ana Cecilia is a writer, editor, and DJ who loves telling stories about sound, the body, and pop culture. In 2020, she edited the children's book El Bajo Alberti, illustrated by Dipacho, in Colombia and Chile. She has also published her own work in Colombian magazines like Arcadia, El Malpensante, and Diners, and the Rio Grande Review of Poetry in the US.
She has participated in audio festivals such as Festival Sur Aural in Bolivia and Festival En Tiempo Real in Colombia. She often DJs under the name LaPhDj in the Chulita Vinyl Club collective. Her audio documentary [i]From the Center Out[i], coproduced by Laura Marina Boria, was selected to participate in the 2022 edition of the radio art festival Radiophrenia in Scotland.
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