Audio Collections: Spoken Arts, Sounds, and Sound Effects
What comes to mind when you think of an audio collection? You may see shelves of audiobooks or racks of music CDs. However there are many other kinds of sound recordings that don't fit either of these categories. From comedy programs and exercise tapes to radio anthologies and "self-help" materials, spoken word and sound effects materials add breadth and depth to an audio collection.
Hearing is one of the human senses that is most sensitive. Directly linked to memory, sounds can create pictures in the mind.
Listen to the following sounds (After listening, click on the 'back' button / arrow of your browser to return to this page):
Listen to the following voices:
With the first two sound / audio files; what did you see in your mind?
With the persons speaking, can you identify who they were?
Click Answers to check the sounds.
Many different types of works fall into the categories of audiobooks, spoken word, sound, and sound effects. In each of the following categories, I've provided links to Amazon's website where you can listen to samples of the tapes and CDs described.
Go to each of the following categories within Multimedia Seeds: read the page and explore the links:
Answers:
Sound1: Jaws Theme (WAV) from Jaws Sounds
Sound2: Daffy Duck (Looney Tunes cartoon) (WAV) "Would it be too much to ask if we could make up our minds? Hmmm?" WavSource.com
Person1: Portion of President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (MP3) that includes: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" HistoryBuff.com
Person2: Ronald Reagan (WAV ) - "Mr. Gorbachev . . . tear down this wall". WavSource.com
Person3: Thomas Edison - His first speech (WAV) onto the earliest phonograph recording. Amber Wav's of Grain Sound Files
Person4: Martin Luther King, Jr. (MP3) - Excerpt from "I Have a Dream" speech delivered in 1963 to more than 200,000 civil-rights marchers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Seattle Times