Piece created on Cubase 7.5 inspired by "Suicide Forest" Aokigahara in Japan. I used six tracks to create this piece: a drums track, a rhythm bass track (resembling an 808), two background tracks (one in mids range and one in lows range), a piano-based melody track (which features harmonies in certain parts of the song) and a synth in a ska rhythm. I will talk about how I got each of these tracks to sound how I wanted them to sound, and also how I got them to work with each other.

Aokigahara

This composition is based on the famous speech that Charlie Chaplin gives on "The Dictator". There isn't a lot in the way of instrumentation, with a few strings tracks of varying instruments and pitches, the track of the speech itself, a flute track and a drums track. The fact that I have kept it so simple lends to the effect it has, as it allows for layering of the few instruments in different parts of the composition. I created this piece using Logic Pro 9.

Composition based on Charlie Chaplin's "The Dictator" speech

Made this using Logic Pro 9, bounced the audio and imported the files into Cubase for use in the live performance showcase. It is a custom backing track of Frank Ocean's 'Thinkin' 'Bout You' that I played the melody to for the performance.

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