Assignment 1 for BerkleeX: OMTHR-001x Music For Wellness. 

The assignment is essentially to write a song with intent: about a person, feeling, etc. My mom passed away this past weekend and I decided to write a song that reflected darkness and light with a tone of somberness. The unknown future of both death and life.

I composed this entirely on the OP-1 synthesizer. The tracks were laid down in the order you hear them, from the the darkest and lowest to the brightest though I created the ideas for them in the reverse order. The first three are sequenced with 'Endless Pattern.'

The first layer is Death.

The second layer is light, using church organ as symbolism for the soul. My mom was a choir conductor for most of her life.

The third layer is motion. The end is also a beginning. Death and rebirth. Saturn oversees the end of things and the beginnings of new.

The last layer is improvised. I wanted to to reflect how the future is unknowable and really force myself to get into the headspace of the music.

Astrum

Saturn

Lullaby for second week of BerkleeX's Music for Wellness.

Waffle Morning

A short mantra for Music for Wellness class. Never recorded vocals with the OP-1 before. Timing was harder than I expected.

ASTRUM

YES I CAN

A test recording using the OP-1 Crank add-on to record forward and backward.

Reverve

Rexpert

I sampled the bell on the Red Line and thought it made a nice little instrument.

Train Tune

After I fill up the 6:00 on the OP-1 tape I dump everything unmixed onto an album track. It doesn't sound like each one would have, some were recorded at different speeds and such. There's always some interesting vignettes.

freyquency

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