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I wrote a free verse, ekphrastic, and spoken word poem in English. For the free verse poem, the goal was to encompass the meaning and emotions of your concept statement. You were supposed to do this in 10-25 lines. For the ekphrastic poem, which is a poem about a work of art, we were supposed to choose a piece of art from the Museum of Modern Art during our field trip. I choose to write an ekphrastic about a 9 channel video installation called The Travelers. I definitely strengthened my skills in Premier Pro in in Pro Tools while making the photo and audio productions for my poems. For my free verse poem about my concept statement, I followed the same steps I took for my haiku video. However I used about seven pictures as opposed to the single one used for the haiku, for my free verse piece. In premiere pro specifically, using these different photos helped me better my skills in fading images in and out throughout the video. I appreciated being able to watermark my production at the end. To me, this represented my capability to fully produce something with several different aspects to it.

Ekphrastic Poem

Around You

Seventh floor.

As a great, big blue room shifts into a dimly lit hallway,

I continue forward to unveil an encompassing encounter.

 

Radiant videos simultaneously sing

as one, breathe in the melody of eight anthologized cries,

across rooms of a home.

Various illuminated spaces,

each with a music maker.

Separate people in separate rooms harmonize in unison.

 

Each screen shares a different biography:

A woman worn

from the wretchedness of society’s bleeding souls,

minds painfully contorting into what seems to be the perfect mold;

A man taking a bath after a long day;

And a group of non-related people,

Basking in a cricket’s hymn

 

The boat is docked,

You lie at bay

You hear unity and serenity

intertwine calloused fingers

And become interchangeable.

 

There’s a certain ease to the cadence,

the abstracted unity,

the inclusive isolation

 

Lyrics free fall into crescendo,

And eventually

bellow.

The lullaby ripens into a

battle cry.

 

Words uplift and piano keys perform.

Eyelids kiss and I’m no longer met with a void

Blues, reds, yellows and whites dance in the dark

 

The art concludes with the congregation of seven

in the piano room

There, vocals and piano are accompanied with strings

 

Soon after, everyone chases the end of the day over the hills 

while chanting the song of stars.

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Introduce your Spoken Word Poem. What was your inspiration?

Haiku

In English, we were presented with the assignment to write a Haiku--a short poem following a 5-7-5 syllables per line format--based off of the concept statement we were given in class a. My concept statement was: I am exploring the feeling of defensiveness through the experience of having to earn money. At first, this concept statement was difficult to comprehend and especially difficult to write a poem with. However, I eventually came up with a haiku behind the idea that when I work hard and earn money it is harder to give away to others as opposed to when I am simply given money which does not hold as much value to me. My Haiku was: The money received; drifts silently in the rain; Once earned it’s hidden.

To produce my haiku video in Digital media, I first made the background music with previously made loops supplied to me. I arranged the tune in Pro Tools. Soon after, I recorded myself reading my haiku and imported that track into Pro Tools to finalize the audio for my video. Within the application Adobe Premiere Pro, I produced the video with the original haiku photo and the audio track I had made. Finally, with Adobe Premiere Pro, I was able to make the haiku lines show up on the picture when and where I wanted them to so that their appearance would correspond with the audiotrack and specifically with my words in the background. I valued making my own music for this production. If I had used someone else’s music, it would have been cool to say that I took someone’s music and recorded myself to made my video. But it’s much much cooler to be able to say that in it’s entirety, I produced this video!

 

 

Art

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Conceptual Art Diptych

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Conceptual Art Diptych
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Music

My parody music was a diss track with the background music from Drake’s Child’s Play. My inspiration for my parody music stemmed from the many diss tracks produced by Soundcloud rappers with great beats in the background! I first had to write the lyrics to a verse in the song that I would later remove the vocals from. I’d say writing the lyrics was the most difficult part for this piece. Next in Pro Tools, I imported the audio to Child’s Play and removed the vocals to the part of the song that I wanted to rap over. I did this by making a duplicate of the track and splitting the track into mono. Then I nudged the right mono track and put EQ plugins on the duplicate track and the right mono track. I then applied a master fader so that the instrumental was not overpowering the vocals. Soon after, I went into the ISO booth to record my vocals which I would then import into Pro Tools to finalize my parody audio track. We made photo covers for our songs on Adobe Photoshop which would be the music’s cover photo when it was later posted onto Soundcloud.