This piece was from a project in my Sound Mix in Popular Culture class which required us to make a meaningful mashup that conveyed a personal emotion. I chose to create a piece that reminded me of my childhood. When I think of my childhood I immediately think of the 1990s and Robin Williams. As a child Robin Williams always made me laugh and I wanted to make a tribute to him and 90s west coast music because I feel that those two things helped shape who I am today. All the music used was from Dr. Dre and Sublime both west coast artists who played a big role in the music scene, and two of my favorite artists. The Robin Williams clip is from the movie Dead Poets Society about the need for passion and creativity in our lives. (This was the first audio assignment I've ever done so please excuse the raw basic editing) 

Meaningful Sonic Mashup

One of my favorite pieces this was project 2 in my Sound Mix in Popular Culture class which required us to make a piece out of any type of natural sound that we recorded and use that sound to create anything we wanted. For me I decided to make a soundscape of your typical house party. The first 30 seconds of the piece is sound I captured from my phone at an actual house party I was at, then I looped that sound throughout the whole piece and added dialogue to it. This piece is especially meaningful to me because its about my favorite musician: Brad Nowell (Lead singer of Sublime). All the dialogue in the piece are from actual videos of Brad hanging out with his friends and singing songs. Brad Nowell is my favorite musician and as a tribute to him and his life I made a soundscape of a house party that I imagined Brad would be at.

Brad's House Party

The third project in my Sound Mix in Popular Culture class which required us to create a piece that dealt with space and parallel universes. Basically my teacher wanted us to make the piece as trippy as possible. My teacher really challenged me to experiment with layering sound in a way that it all flows together. In this project I try and give the impression that you are floating through different dimensions with each dimension having its own trippy feeling to it. I found this project to be especially challenging and fun at the same time because it forced me to really expand on my imagination and focus on my creativity.

Parallel Universes

This was the final project to my Sound Mix and Popular Culture class. I decided to make a piece that represented what you would hear if you jumped into my head. My mind is constantly moving with random thoughts and ideas and this piece broadly captures what was going through my head at that time. Each clip has its own separate meaning to it.
OPENING CLIP - Boring lecture that represents falling asleep and entering your own world.
WILLY WONKA MUSIC MAKERS - Willy Wonka reciting the line to my favorite poem: Ode. Reference to Parallel Universe piece
RAY LEWIS SUPER BOWL SPEECH - One of my favorite athletes reciting a verse from the bible to get his teamed pumped for the biggest sporting event of the year. Super Bowl 47 was one of the greatest games i ever witnessed.
JURRASIC PARK CLIP - One of my favorite movies as a child he is welcoming people to Jurrasic park,which parallels me welcoming people into my mind.
FIGHT CLUB CLIP - This clip is telling the audience to not talk about what goes on in my head. In other words its telling the audience not to judge me based on what they hear.
UP IN THE AIR CLIP - Introducing myself to the audience 
BREAKING BAD CLIP - I found this clip particularly funny because many people think I am mexican when in fact I'm not Mexican at all. I'm half filipino which makes me look a little bit Mexican and people are always making bets to see if they can guess my ethnicity. I found this clip very fitting because they are betting that someone is mexican when in fact the person is asian, just like how people always think I'm mexican when in fact I am half asian.
FOOLSIH FOOL BY SUBLIME - Reference to Brad's House Party. Telling the audience that I can be such a fool sometimes.
WAYNE'S WORLD SPEECH - Mirroring the aspirations I have of doing something great with my life.
CHRIS FARLEY/MATT FOLEY SNL SKIT - Represents my love for comedy and funny people. I also enjoy writing and rolling doobies ;)
SAMPLE FROM THE SONG "AFTER LAUGHTER" - This song represents the bittersweetness we all go through in life. (Inspired from Tearz by Wu Tang Clan)
THE OFFICE MICHAEL SCOTT - Ties in with the song "After Laughter". Michael Scott just broke up with his girlfriend and he is explaining the heartbreak he feels in a very funny way. After our laughter comes his tears.
CARPE DIEM FROM COLLATERAL - This clips represents the fact that we must seize the moments when it is presented to us. In this clip Tom Cruise is telling Jammie Foxx that he never had the courage to pursue his own dreams and that now its too late. I am very fearful sometimes that I won't fulfill my dreams because I was too scared to pursue them.
PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS - Will Smith explaining to his son that he is capable of doing whatever he wants, and that if you have a dream you have to protect and pursue it at the same time while not caring what other think of you. I found this clip very inspirational because it told me to be courageous when pursuing my dreams.
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE - Taken from one of my favorite book and movie Where The Wild Things Are. It also sets the stage for the final two clips of the piece because it is directly related to them. This represents the fact that my mind is where the wild things are because there is so much going on. This clip also represents my naiveness and how I'm still a child at heart with a vivid imagination. 
BREEZEBLOCKS BY ALT J - The closing song to this piece the song Breezeblocks makes reference to the book Where The Wild Things Are. In the song he says "please don't go, I'll eat you whole, I love you so" which is a line from both the book and movie of Where The Wild Things Are. That line is metaphor of me telling the audience to stay with me and I'll do anything to keep them here (in my head). 
FINAL CLIP FROM FAMILY GUY -  The closing clip gives the audience reassurance that its OK if they can't comprehend what they just heard.


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