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For the explorations project, we were tasked with coming up with a project ourselves, and explore our own passions using techniques from freestyle. For me, I’ve been playing classical music for most of my life, so doing something music related was key- Though I did want to focus on production, since that is a facet of music that was unfamiliar to me. To keep it relevant to my class, I also used Adobe Illustrator to make graphics to go along with the music, which sounds dreadfully familiar to the Experimental Music project- I’d like to note that both projects had different angles going into them… though it doesn’t change the fact that they are almost the same.
And to give an example of how everything came together, take a look at these two visual productions:
Hopefully, the two pieces speak differently, since that was the aim of the project: To practice conveying different ideas through different mechanics.
Explorations Infographic
For the infographic, I did pretty much everything in Adobe Illustrator. In researching, on top of doing secondary research, I also did a discussion with some of my piano-playing friends to try and work with our background knowledges and bring a newer angle on these sorts of mechanics… And below, though simplified drastically, are some of the macro points that we came up with.
And to tie the whole unit together, we also did a presentation- which is sort of a summary of everything you have just read up to this point.
Experimental Music
This music project was similar to my explorations project, but I decided to approach it in a different way- rather than obsessing over the details and methods of which I was doing everything, I took a looser approach, and just messed about on my keyboard in Reason to see what I could come up with.