Hi, I made music.

Hi, my name is Jesus Garcia, I’m an Animation student at Freestyle Academy. Throughout my 2 years at Freestyle I have been trying to find out what I wanted to do in the future, and through the Explorations project, I have learned that I wanted to make music, and continued that passion through the Zenith Project.

I have always had a passion to make music when I was young, and I have been fascinated by the genre of EDM for quite a while, so I bought FL Studio and started messing around. At first, the things I made didn’t sound so good or polished which is to be expected for a beginner, but after some time and more messing around I was able to make some things I enjoyed.

For my Senior Showcase, I am excited to share my two songs that I made in the Zenith Project called “Sunken” and “Wave Check.” These two songs are the songs that I currently like the best out of the tracks that I made. Sunken is a chill song that I made after messing around with sound production, even though the sound was very simply made. Wave Check was the second song I started working on in my Zenith. At first when I made it I thought it was really good, but I didn’t know what I would do for a good buildup, so I made a very rough one and after some time I hated it and tweaked a couple things till I liked it again, and now I think it’s the best song I’ve made so far.

I would like some feedback on my song structure, mastering, and just how good it sounds to you. Is there anything I need some work on in order to improve my music capabilities?

Right now I go by the artist name “Peng” and I plan on0 continuing making music and posting it on SoundCloud, YouTube, and potentially Spotify. I am hoping to compile a lot of the songs I make and placing them in a small EP.

You can reach me pengmusic0@gmail.com

Peng – Sunken

Sunken is a chill out track, and is currently the only thing that I have uploaded on my SoundCloud. I made this song while I was down in the dumps and messing around with some intermediate level sound design. I went with a chill out song because I always enjoyed stuff that I could just put in the background and just vibe to it.

https://soundcloud.com/peng-music0/peng-sunken
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Animation I made with it for a project

Peng – Wave Check

Wave Check is a future bass track that I made. When I first started this song, I loved the drop, but I hated the buildup for it, which was just a generic piano buildup that sounded a lot more intense than the drop was, so I tweaked the intro as well as a bit of the drop in order for it to fit a lot more. I haven’t uploaded this song to my SoundCloud yet because I feel like I can still work on it so more.

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Animation I made with it for a project

Reflection

With these two songs, I feel like I have improved from the old stuff I used to make, because back then I had no idea how to do any sort of sound design, I still don’t know much, but I know a hell of a lot more than back then. Back then all I did was make a small melody that repeated over and over with just new sounds added every now and then, but not new enough, so it just ended up very repetitive. I will definitely take some more time to improve my work and create more stuff that I am proud of to include into a small EP.