Song

I didn't get a chance to present my 2nd audio report so here it is.
Its cheesy, but I did do it.

It is inspired by the election and the song bites are taken from real-live young voters and then I mixed it.

-Jake

Bend This

This weeks music project overview/process/how to.

I will hopefully get this working and have some samples posted by next week

Population Song

My song that shows the evolution of man and its stages, including a final optimistic look towards our future.

[motor]cycles and music

The song that accompanied the slides was Arlo Guthrie's Motorcycle Song.

Musical Report

My Music - Apples Falling From Your Head

For my musical report, I wrote a song and played it in the student center. You can listen to / download it here.

Lyrics:

I will not be intimidated,
No one's less afraid than me to fall.
Though my strength is underrated,
Oh my size will never make me small.

And I'd try to tell you something,
But I cannot know as well as you.
No one needs to move a mountain,
Cuz you're smart enough to just get through.

Da da da da.

Do not be intimidated,
No one said you had to know it all.
Sat inside your house and waited,
For the apples in your head to fall.

All you ever wanted lies inside your unencumbered potential.

All you've ever wanted you will meet it,
So get up get down get tall.

Da da da...

MUSIC / SAMPLING / PRODUCTION

Here is the link to the PDF of the entire booklet. I choice to do research on Samplers and music production with them. 

Sampler Product Design 

Blood Diamond_ Soundtracks that Provide (African Music))

Music has always been most powerful to me when presented in context of something aggressively visual. Even the film that was seen last week in class grasped my senses in a way that they generally never are. This makes whatever message that stands behind this music about a million times more interesting. But does this music have the ability to solve problems. Maybe not on it’s own, but if music, in the form of a soundtrack or otherwise holds the tone of a production that brings millions of dollars in revenue to a continent or country that desperately needs the boost in economy; I say that this music may have even saved lives.
The movie Blood Diamond was filmed almost entirely in Africa, Mozambique to be more specific. “The reasons are somewhat intangible. Africa is a place of great contrasts. Everywhere you go is breath-taking beauty and heart-breaking squalor,” (Edward Zwick, Levy). The point being of course that a film strictly about the suffering, sound, and most importantly the environment can only be really seen from the location itself.
So what does it take to mimic the emotion of this harsh environment? It takes time, effort, and the contribution from and back into the environment. This can mean millions, of dollars that is. Does this sound krass when discussing an element so beautiful as sound? Not to me. To me it makes the sound of another school being built, or a couple more kids eating. IT makes the sound of an economy picking itself up through the power of very artistic communication. This penetrates the minds and helping hand of richer economies by appealing to their artistic nature, and their emotional side. IT certainly doesn’t sound cynical if in fact the money earned from the film and the resale of it’s millions of soundtrack sales filters back into the African economy.
The best part about all this power is the teaching tools that are put in place from the success of the production. The website, another major selling point for the music,a nd the feeling also holds political information maps that grasps you first in terms of the story, then in terms of real life, (Official Blood Diamond).
So how does music really come in? Many would say that the music has very little to do with the overall hype of the film and it’s story that made this economy-saving money possible. The truth is that nothing in the production world happens without the quality of sound to drag the viewer in. It creates the experience that makes it feel real. I’ll be analyzing the strength of the soundtrack.

Although I was unable to get my hands on the instruments that power the emotions of the nation, I did manage to find an archive of sound clips that bring the culture to life.  I accredit Hugh Tracey in the sample part of the post. because many of the clips from the Ilam site were recorded by him in 1943.  They are from a variety of cultures, and many from the troubled parts of the continent that were featured in Blood Diamond, (Tracey, Ilam).

Bibliography

Levy, Emanuel. Blood Diamond, Shooting in Africa. EmanuelLevy.com 2004-2009.
Roger Ebert. Sept. 23, 2008. http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=3832

Blood Diamond. Blood Diamond. Official Blood Diamond Website. 2008.
Warner Brothers.Sept.23, 2008. http://blooddiamondmovie.warnerbros.com/

Tracey, Hugh. International Library of African Music. Ilam. Recorded: 1943

Music of Africa Series. Sept. 24, 2008.