Title: We Wish...
I interpreted this picture as a group of people protesting against the injustice in society for people with disabilities, a type of unfairness that is often overlooked because of racial and gender discrimination. These disabled people are trying to make others aware of the rights they deserve and are fighting to obtain. My hope was to provide a musical representation of the grit and harsh trials that those who are disabled and are protesting have to go through. I wanted the listener to hear and feel sadness for the ongoing fight and the cry of those protesters as they fight for justice. In the end of the piece, I wanted to give pause in the form of silence to show that the problem still remains and has not ended. However, my last three notes are bright in order to present the hope that still exists. The first sounds the listener hears are dark and foreboding, which represent the raw injustice that is present. I tried to keep a type of tension present to maintain the motion of their march and fight against discrimination.
It was difficult to make decisions, but I knew beforehand that I wanted the music behind the picture to represent the action that was not seen and the fact that the issue is still relevant. I used my original piece as a motif for the disabled protestors. They had a sad, demanding cry, which I thought my piece fit well with. At one point, I displace the harmonies so that they sound stacked or like an echo of the previous note to demonstrate that the difficulty to achieve full justice and that their work is completed yet. When the harmonies come together, it represents their full cry in unison. The software I used was Soundtrap; initially I used Abelton, but I did not have the MIDI instruments to plug in so that sound could be produced from my laptop. I spent some time researching why my MIDI files could not produce sound, which led me to searching for an easier software to utilize. Soundtrap was convenient because it was free and directly from an online website, making it convenient to reach. It mediated my experience by making it easier to find loops and sounds that could be easily used in my composition. I didn’t like how sometimes the timbre would not match what I was imagining, which made it difficult to complete my composition to the standards that I wanted. Giving a title to my song was difficult, but I think “We Wish…” gives the protestors combined hopes and the ellipses show that there is still more yet to be accomplished. I wish I had more time because I feel as if there were more things I could perfect and ideas that could be presented more clearly. I also wish I had better software to obtain more loop sounds; I wanted my last three notes to be a triangle sound, but I ended up having to use a piano pitch instead because I could not find any loops that matched what I imagined. From this experience, I learned that music and technology work hand in hand. Technology can easily facilitate music making and composition, but sometimes it can also make it more difficult because of the search for different sounds and software buttons. I did not know what a lot of the terms on the DAW software was, so I ended up not using them because I did not understand their purpose or benefit. However, this has been my easiest music composing experience because I can obtain already made sound loops that fit the style of what I want. If I had more time, I think that the technology would be an excellent way to explore the realm of music and composition. Comments are closed.
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