Just some comments about the last assignment:

The first ringtone was made from a recording of my suitemate taking out our recycling. The glass bottles clanked together and made a sweet almost purely musical sound. In the course of my recording, I also chose some things that were just music to record: a roommate's singing echoing in the entryway, the bells of Harkness Tower and an organ performance at Woolsey. But ultimately, I wanted to make the ringtone from something not intrinsically musical. I basically just copied the first recording, moved the layers to different times and experimented with modifying speed.

The second ringtone was a recording of opening my entryway door with my ID; the beep and click of the heavy wooden door. I took a small splice of the recording to be repeated and experimented with the frequency changer in the Pluggo effects. I liked that the last repetition turned out to be an exact octave from the original recording.