Please note: I can only accept submissions from people eighteen years old and older. Thanks for understanding.
Remember the game “Operator” when you were a kid? You’d whisper a phrase to the kid next to you, he’d whisper it to the kid next to him, and so on. All most participants need is the ability to send an email.
This is how it works:
1) The first player writes down a sentence. For example: “The dog barked all night.”
2) The second player takes that sentence and conveys it using only sound effects. For example: Crickets chirping to indicate evening, the dog barking and barking and barking, a rooster crowing to indicate morning.
3) The third player only hears the sound effects. She/he comes up with a sentence that best describes the sound effects. For example: “In the warm summer night, the dog heard an intruder.”
4) The fourth player repeats the second step.
5) The fifth player repeats the third step.
And so on. As you can see, the original sentence will be quite garbled by the time it’s finished. Doesn’t this sound like fun? And better yet, doesn’t it sound EASY?
Sound effect players can either send me a list of sounds they want to use from the Freesound Project (no sound editing required) or create their own sound file and send it to me.
Let me know via email if you’d like to participate. Be sure to note if you’d like to provide a sentence or sound effects.
View Comments
Rebekkah
25 Jul 2006
I’d like to participate in the game! I once played a version that involved drawings instead of sound effects, and it was a blast. I don’t have a microphone, so I’d need to be a sentence writer, not a sound maker.
Victoria & Lyndon
26 Jul 2006
Hi Sage! We’d like to participate in the game too and we’re happy to provide sound effects.
Bruce Murray
10 Aug 2006
Hi Sage If you still need a sound FX participant I would be happy to contribute – Bruce
Jennifer
09 Sep 2006
Hey Sage! I’d love to participate… not sure how easy it would be for me to do the audio part but I would for sure write a sentence!
Dreama
30 Oct 2006
I seem to be all over your podcast these days, but if you need one more, I’m game.
Jim
02 Nov 2006
I’d love to do either sound effects or sentence writing–wherever you need me.
Aarlene
03 Mar 2007
Sign me up for sentence writing.
Lisa
10 Mar 2007
Hi! Love your podcast! I have never participated before but I would love to try figuring out a sentence. I am not sure about finding and putting together audio.
Thanks!
Lisa
Mr Tim
14 Mar 2007
I’d love to do some sound if you still need a someone.
Thanks!
Chelsea
31 May 2007
I’m game! Sign me up for either sounds or sentences. :)
maureen blaseckie
21 Aug 2007
I’m in, Sage, for a sentence. Writing is my gig but I’m up for giving a try at sounds too – or at least volunteering mark’s services as my house geek.
moe
WoollyJumpers
30 Sep 2007
I’m in for a sentence! (What’s a URI?)
WJ
Leave a Comment