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: Sound 1, Sound 2, Sound 3, and Sound 4. What do you see in your mind? Click Answers to check the sounds.
Listen to the following four voices: Person 1, Person 2, Person 3, Person 4. Who are they? Click Answers to check the sounds.
Categories of Spoken Word, Sounds, and Sound Effects
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:
Read the off-site article, Listen to Your Library, by Judith Basisty who describes the resources in the Spoken Arts and Spoken Instructional collection of her library in Edmonton, Canada. Select a collection and describe it's contents.
Answers:
Sound 1: Jaws Theme (WAV) from Jaws Sounds
Sound 2: Woody Woodpecker's Laugh (WAV) from McMinnville High School, OR.
Sound 3: Sea gulls and surf (WAV) at the beach
Sound 4: "Alright seagull. Are ya comin' with me quietly or do I have to slap ya around some?" from B. Neal's Looney Tunes Wav site.
Person 1: Martin Luther King Jr. (Real Audio)- "Let Freedom Ring" speech from The Seattle Times
Person 2: John F. Kennedy (WAV) - "Ask Not..." from JFK Lancer Productions & Publications
Person 3: Ronald Reagan - "Tear down this wall" (WAV) from a personal website
Person 4: Thomas Edison - His first speech (WAV) onto the earliest phonograph recording from Amber Wav's of Grain Sound Files