Michael
Mary
Kamerynn
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Brianwashed
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The two most important layers in my life are "the Lizard" and "Ship". I believe I have both of these problems that I must overcome to do what I want to do in life.
The Lizard strikes your mind telling you that you can't do it, you wont ever be good enough, they will laugh at you. NO ONES LAUGHING! It's all in my head. I need to keep my mind set on my future and remember how far I have came but also remember how far I need to go. Its going to take a long time but I can do it. Stay focused and don't fall into The Lizards game.
Ship, I am always frightened to show people my expressive art. I keep it all by myself and never let it be shown. Why? I don't know, maybe its The Lizard. But to get anywhere I need to ship. I need to be will to show everyone my art. I'm not afraid of laughter, it takes a lot to embarrass me but my art is my soul so I have to stand by it.
With this blog I have been making I can see how this makes these things go away. I can put all of my art on here for everyone to see. Slowly I'm becoming the shipper. The Lizards not telling me that people are going to make fun of me because as this is a class everyone has to do this. But wether or not I am putting my art on here, my words, my emotions, my viewpoints on life. Do I like it? Yes. I want to venture out and show everyone my work, I want the world to know the music of Joshua Powell. As a music composition major there is always so many people around me telling me my work isn't like everyone else's and they don't get. But those are professors, do they truly know the now when I ask my friends and they love it.
The Lizard strikes your mind telling you that you can't do it, you wont ever be good enough, they will laugh at you. NO ONES LAUGHING! It's all in my head. I need to keep my mind set on my future and remember how far I have came but also remember how far I need to go. Its going to take a long time but I can do it. Stay focused and don't fall into The Lizards game.
Ship, I am always frightened to show people my expressive art. I keep it all by myself and never let it be shown. Why? I don't know, maybe its The Lizard. But to get anywhere I need to ship. I need to be will to show everyone my art. I'm not afraid of laughter, it takes a lot to embarrass me but my art is my soul so I have to stand by it.
With this blog I have been making I can see how this makes these things go away. I can put all of my art on here for everyone to see. Slowly I'm becoming the shipper. The Lizards not telling me that people are going to make fun of me because as this is a class everyone has to do this. But wether or not I am putting my art on here, my words, my emotions, my viewpoints on life. Do I like it? Yes. I want to venture out and show everyone my work, I want the world to know the music of Joshua Powell. As a music composition major there is always so many people around me telling me my work isn't like everyone else's and they don't get. But those are professors, do they truly know the now when I ask my friends and they love it.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Demo and Written
The song I have chosen is "I will alway's love you" originally by Dolly Parton. The cover is done by Whitney Houston.
The biggest difference between the two are the style, Dolly's is more country, and Whitney's is more Pop. The lyrics and the melody are the same. The rhythm of whitney's is a lot more rubato, and her vocals are more intense and in your face compared to Dolly's. Whitney's is the most famous of the two, and hers was a lot more dramatic. Dolly's made you feel like you lost someone you loved and Whitney's was a tragedy and like she left someone. In Whitney's they use a Saxophone soloist which was very beautiful.
For me my favorite is Whitney's. It's beautiful and almost makes me cry by how perfect her vocals are.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Find your howl
In the story, Mumon couldn't find his howl. He had been in in captivation for so long that he didn't know how to find food and howl at the moon. But at the end of the story the wolf was getting shot and at that moment he remembered how to howl because he could see his past lives right in front of them.
My favorite song, I a bright eyes song, called "the first day of my life" this song is very dear to me because its about the first time I met my ex.
This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach
Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don’t know where I am
I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go
And so I thought I’d let you know
That these things take forever
I especially am slow
But I realize that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home
Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you'd just woke up
And you said “this is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you
But now I don’t care I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy”
So if you want to be with me
With these things there’s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides maybe this time is different
I mean I really think you like me
My favorite song, I a bright eyes song, called "the first day of my life" this song is very dear to me because its about the first time I met my ex.
This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach
Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don’t know where I am
I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go
And so I thought I’d let you know
That these things take forever
I especially am slow
But I realize that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home
Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you'd just woke up
And you said “this is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you
But now I don’t care I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy”
So if you want to be with me
With these things there’s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides maybe this time is different
I mean I really think you like me
Sunday, April 3, 2011
What influences me as a creative person?
As a music composition major, the romantic music era is by far the one I look to the most when I'm writing music (years 1825-1900). I like the romantic era because of the emotion and virtuosity of the music, the hardest music ever written was from this time period.
The first example I would like to use is my favorite composer ever, Frederic Chopin. This is one of his well known preludes from his book of 24 preludes, This is Prelude #4 in E minor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-4Bv5Ng0w
In this song Chopin uses lots of tension and release. In every chord he pulls you to the next by a musical term called suspension, which just means that a note from a chord is play before the actual chord is played making a listener anticipate the next chord. Then the release is the actual next chord.
The second example of romantic composers is Schumann's Symphony #4 in D Minor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6QUvSovobI
At this time in history symphonies were at there largest.. Composers calling for more, and more instrumentalist. The reason why I like this song so much is this is the epitome of romantic music, loud, the style changes dramatically, and its purely dramatic.
The third example I would like to give is the romantic "god", Brahms. This is his Violin Concerto, just the first movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlIEbBcXT_U
The reason why I want to point out that this is just the first movement of the piece is because how long the movement is. Brahms movements where longer than most composers whole Symphony's. If you don't know symphonies/concertos have around five movements. This movement is almost 25 minutes long.
Other things that composer of this era liked to use was Text/Subtext, obviously there are no words but composers would write music that had to do with things of there time, like politics or news. Composers would make fun of certain people with there music. For example I know a composer that wrote a song that was called "Fuck Bush", Which the song was to sound silly and to make fun of him.
The first example I would like to use is my favorite composer ever, Frederic Chopin. This is one of his well known preludes from his book of 24 preludes, This is Prelude #4 in E minor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-4Bv5Ng0w
In this song Chopin uses lots of tension and release. In every chord he pulls you to the next by a musical term called suspension, which just means that a note from a chord is play before the actual chord is played making a listener anticipate the next chord. Then the release is the actual next chord.
The second example of romantic composers is Schumann's Symphony #4 in D Minor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6QUvSovobI
At this time in history symphonies were at there largest.. Composers calling for more, and more instrumentalist. The reason why I like this song so much is this is the epitome of romantic music, loud, the style changes dramatically, and its purely dramatic.
The third example I would like to give is the romantic "god", Brahms. This is his Violin Concerto, just the first movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlIEbBcXT_U
The reason why I want to point out that this is just the first movement of the piece is because how long the movement is. Brahms movements where longer than most composers whole Symphony's. If you don't know symphonies/concertos have around five movements. This movement is almost 25 minutes long.
Other things that composer of this era liked to use was Text/Subtext, obviously there are no words but composers would write music that had to do with things of there time, like politics or news. Composers would make fun of certain people with there music. For example I know a composer that wrote a song that was called "Fuck Bush", Which the song was to sound silly and to make fun of him.
Friday, April 1, 2011
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