Approach

I didn't go in with a clear plan: I've never used Audacity before and have no audio editing experience, so my primary goal was to learn a useful tool. I vaguely knew that I wanted something chaotic in the background with something cleaner and sharper at the forefront to represent the blemished background and gouges, but that's as far as my planning went. I knew I'd spend a lot of time trying to work with Audacity (I spent 15 minutes stuck with no buttons available: you have to press stop before you edit anything, who knew), so I thought I should probably go in without crazy expectations.