{"id":604,"date":"2025-12-30T03:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/?page_id=604"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:59:54","slug":"music-recording","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/music-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">For our music recording project, we were tasked with using Freestyle\u2019s professional music recording studio and ProTools to record a musician\u2019s playing. For this project, I collaborated with Jerry Liang to record his brother playing the piano, playing \u201c\u7ae5\u8bdd\u201d or \u201cFairy Tale\u201d in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03479-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03479-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03479-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03479-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03479.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Behind the scenes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Recording music isn\u2019t simple. During our recording session, we had 7-8 takes until we got the perfect recording. Using my piano and musical knowledge, I told Jerry\u2019s brother which parts needed more dynamical contrast, as well as which parts needed to be polished more. Through Mr. Florendo&#8217;s guidance on the communication system within the recording studio, we were able to talk to Jerry\u2019s brother during the session to ensure a smooth recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03504-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03504-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03504-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03504-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03504-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Listening to recording<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03500-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03500-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03500-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03500-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03500.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">ProTools editing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Album art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Liang-Jerry-Music-Album-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Liang-Jerry-Music-Album-Cover.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Liang-Jerry-Music-Album-Cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Liang-Jerry-Music-Album-Cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Liang-Jerry-Music-Album-Cover-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Product<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AlbertK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JerryL-AlbertK-Final-Recording.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reflection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The piece Jason played is a Chinese song called \u201c\u7ae5\u8bdd\u201d or \u201cFairy Tale\u201d in English. The story behind this song is that the singer wants to protect his beloved who is suffering from terminal illness. When creating the album art, I went for a more minimalistic and geometric style by illustrating two rock figures, where the rock figure on the left is hugging the crumbling rock figure on the right. The inspiration behind our album art came from the shapes of Minecraft figures and the pet rock monster named \u201cBrumble\u201d from Prodigy Math Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The project began with us asking Jason to be our musician and then figuring out what piece he wanted to play. We initially thought about recording a different piece on the violin instead, but ended up choosing the Fairy Tale piece for the piano as it sounded better. On the day of recording, Mr. Florendo taught us how to set up the recording studio and taught Jason the procedures before we started to record. It was pretty interesting considering the amount of key changes this song had, as while recording, Mr. Flo was like \u201cIs that the third key change!?\u201d After recording a bunch of takes, Mr. Florendo taught us some audio mixing skills in Pro Tools, such as the pitch curves, which gave us the ability to emphasize the higher melodic tones over the harmony.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our music recording project, we were tasked with using Freestyle\u2019s professional music recording studio and ProTools to record a musician\u2019s playing. 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