Year 3 at MacEwan was super productive! I learned so much and created so much music! Here's pretty much everything I did!

MacEwan University Year 3

The fourth song I've written for my song-writing class at MacEwan! 
This song is about not giving your energy to all the indifferent and cruel people in your life, and that giving any of your energy to them is a waste of time.

Wasting Time

My final songwriting project for my songwriting class! 
All I need is a minute to talk to you, so I made a song that's a minute long!
Featuring my first attempt at recording the Talk Box and featuring Gus Butcher on Guitar!

Just A Minute

This is one of the minimalism assignments I did for Composition III at MacEwan!

Stargaze

This is on of my compositions I made in Comp IV this semester!

For this composition, we had to find a poem and use the words of lyrics in a piece for a singer and pianist. I chose Thomas Hood's 'Silence'

Big thanks to Katie Laine Anderson for providing vocals on this piece!

There Is A Silence

This is a Contrafact Tune I made for composition II! I took the chord changes of the Jazz Standard 'Misty' and wrote a new melody for it and also re-harmonized some of the chords!

It ended up making me feel fuzzy

Fuzzy Feelins

The second complex modal song from MacEwan University, "Maybe it's Not."

That phrase has been going through my head for the last few tough weeks of school. "Maybe it's not what you think it is", "Maybe it's not the end of the world", "Maybe it's not meant to be."

This song is a personification of the complex feelings those thoughts have been giving me, so, I hope you enjoy!

Maybe it's Not

A song I composed for Composition VI at MacEwan. The assignment was "Songwriter for hire", where one of the options was to compose a song for a certain artist.

I chose to write a song that would fit on Thundercat's album "Drunk".

Late Night

This was my serialism project that I turned into an EDM track because it made things make more sense. I would explain Serialism Music, but it's better to just Google this one because it's so weird (which is why this song sounds weird)

Bad Breakfast

This was my first project for year three of MacEwan University. This project was inspired by Mozart's 12 Variations of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", where you take a simple theme and make several variations to it.

I picked the Lost Woods Theme (Koji Kondo) from The Legend of Zelda because I'm a huge freakin' nerd and we could pick anything!

Variations On "Lost Woods Theme"

This was my Impressionism piece written for a Woodwind Quintet at MacEwan University. This was a really hard one to write because Impressionism music is very, very odd and foreign to me. 

This is a MIDI mock-up made in Logic

Forest Clock (Mock)

This was my string quartet project from MacEwan University. I had complete freedom with this assignment and had the opportunity to write whatever I felt like.

This is a mock-up made in Logic

Bittersweet (Mock)

This was my research project from MacEwan University. The project was to pick a composer, analyze three of their works, and create a song based on your findings.

I chose Jazz pianist Chick Corea and his three compositions "Spain", "Got a Match?", and "Armando's Rhumba"

Chick Pea

This was my final third-year project at MacEwan University. It was a standard SATB Choir piece in any style we chose. There are lyrics, but unfortunately, I don't have Logic plugins that create words, so Oohs will have to do.

This is a mock-up made in Logic.

Close Your Eyes (Mock)

This was one of my Songwriting projects from MacEwan. It's about close friends growing apart from each other.

MacEwan University Year 3

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