Technology In Music_

This project is comparing the past, present, and future. I made the song on my computer using my computer and MicroKorg synthesizer. I made the song to have three separate parts: A part for the past, a part for the present, and a part for the future. I photo shopped a few of the pictures and did my best to put them into the slide coordinated to the music.

When making this project I thought about the things that make America what it really is. I visualized its people and what the people in America represent as who they are to each other and the world. I also visualized what is in America that makes America what it is like cheeseburgers the statue of liberty and many more symbols see in the project. I tried to convey what America is to me and the world. Hopefully you like it and you see what I am talking about!

Patriotic Slide Show

Grunge Project:

Let me start out by saying I love 90's grunge. It is one of my favorite types of music I relate to that kind of music a lot. When I first got the idea for the project I knew what song I was going to use for it. It was Blow up the outside world by the 90's grunge band Soundgarden. It really has parts in the song that relate well to the pictures. It represents the artists look having all the different parts and the pictures moving in correlation. I choose pictures that represented the time and the art and music style of the time to correspond to the music. Hope everyone see the artist point of view when watching it.

For my project I used the song Bliss by the band Muse.  Originally I intended to recreate the song by using Reason, but that proved to be too difficult and time consuming.  For this reason, I decided to use the actual song.  I used some pictures of the band in my project but mostly I chose to utilize pictures that show the natural beauty of our planet and universe, as well as pictures of human achievements and technological milestones throughout history.  I then juxtaposed these images with pictures of the potential devastation that coincides with human advancements, such as pollution, destruction and warfare.  I hope that my video will send a positive message for the protection of our fragile environment because we only get one planet, and we must make it a safe and prosperous world for generations to come.

The Muse

My song started out with a melody with synth lead.  At first I was just fooling around on the keyboard but then I decided to add a really simple bass line. I threw on a hip hop drum beat and it started sounding like a song.  Eventually I put some more percussion into it and arranged everything to sound like a verse.  I put a fade in at the beginning and a fade out at the end to finish it off.  It ended up sounding pretty good so I used the song for the assignment.

I usually start off my songs with a drum beat, add a nice lead melody, put in a bass line, and maybe a pad, then I find nice sounds to add more depth and more of a vibe.  After that's all done, I rearrange the tracks, like for example, in the intro I'll play the pad and some beeps or a small part of the beat, then start the drums for the verse.  After the verse is over, I put together a chorus of about the same length.  This is when I put in the extras and small sounds, and maybe a hi-hat to put more energy into the chorus.  Then I simply rearrange the rest of a song, maybe change the progression for the 3^rd verse, and then have an outro, similar to the intro.

My song By Steve DiFalco

I wrote this song in Garage band with the idea of having an alien civilization landing on earth and this music playing behind it. I used various different sounds in my song including a variety of different synths, violins, guitars and electronic drums. I am very pleased with the results of the song and plan on creating more music with this similar theme eventually creating a whole story through the music.

This was originally a Maceo Parker song in which he would play the melody in a blues progression and take multiple solos just vamping out in D minor. I replicated this for the melody along with making harmonies to the melody that fit in each chord opposed to how the main melody does not change for the first 8 bars of the blues. I also added in a little transition in G diminished just for tension and release. I tried to use the typical instrument found in a funk setting (guitar, organ, bass, drums, and tenor sax) I pretty much just did this song cause I have been listening to a lot of Maceo Parker and funk in general recently so I just wanted to do a simple song that I could replicate and add a little bit of my own style into it.

My First Garage Band Song

My song was created all by hand in garageband. It was fairly short but original. It was so short because I had made and discarded a few other takes before. It has a few layered synth tracks and a hand done drum track.

Bryce First Song

My Song by Dan Salkin           

My song is about a good feeling. It's about moving and getting yourself INTO the  music instead of just listening and I did this by adding a consistent beat that you can really lose yourself in. It was influenced by bands such as Lotus and The Disco Biscuits.