Taxi Ride

This project made me open my ears and listen to the sounds that surround me. Things I never payed attention to before. My original idea and my final project are very different. I started by writing a poem about two minutes long and i was planning on creating music to go with it on garage band. I was getting very frustrated because I was spending hours trying to make a track and I was not happy with my result. Then I look a taxi ride, I over slept I was running to get to school on time, stressed out, jumped into a a taxi and I closed my eyes. I listened to the street and the sounds around me; the taxi driver was trying to find a ratio station. I enjoyed the crazy fuzzy sound and the random words and songs I herd for a second as he was turning the dial. I decided I wanted to make a sound piece based on my taxi ride. I played around with the radio and my record player I put the pin on and of and on the record at different times and places. I recorded my voice on my phone and re-recorded it on garage band. I enjoy sound that isn’t perfect, nothing is perfect in life. I realized the reason I love listening to records so much is because the sound isn’t perfect, there are little in-prefections and it makes the sounds alive.


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