My sound composition was developed using Adobe Audition, combining sounds that feel like home to me, like birds chirping in the background, and the sound that I recorded of the water splashing in the background when I went to the migration festival a month ago. I thought about the emotions that I felt when I moved for school, and how it was a mix of emotions of sadness, excitement, and fear, which I wanted to replicate in my track. The interstellar like sounds that I produced combining with the ambient noises in the background represent the feeling that I first had moving to Santa Cruz. I additionally wanted to incorporate city sounds of Los Angeles which is where I am from, if you listen closely you can hear it! When it comes to sound memories that I have related to since I was a young child, I remember hearing my friends and families voices when they were in conversation, which I added the sounds of my friends voices in the first middle part of the piece. This work has inspired me during the making of this song, imagining what the future would be like and the existing climate that we are in and how paramount it is to take care of our planet. 

The artistic mechanism of this project was developed using videos that I have taken over the past month, collecting sounds that inspired me in that moment and what I would want my sound composition to include. For example, I added sounds of when it was raining on campus and how that would add an emotional and textural aspect to my piece. After I gathered several sounds that I had in mind to add to my piece, I created a sound composition using Logic Pro X, which is that outer space like soundscape throughout Melody for Nature. I additionally added reverb and EQ which added consistency and a well mix composition. I am currently taking a studio class this quarter where I am learning about DAW's and the skills relative to mixing and mastering. I felt like I was able to utilize those skills in this composition, which definitely assisted in my learning of producing. Some of the thematic elements that I wanted to portray in my song are feelings of longing and nostalgia, which I hoped the listener would feel like they would be in a transformative space with the combination of harmonics and frequencies. I found it most fascinating to use sounds as a medium which I usually think about to be a musical beat, but in this case I wanted to modify sounds that might not be thought of as rhythmic, but can be turned into that tone. 



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