MUSC 1156 FALL 2021

This track is the most confusing of my album; I did this on purpose. I recorded all the sounds from my Organic chemistry Lab. However, I did not want the sounds to be recognizable at all, not even to my lab partner, so I put many different effects on each sound to make them completely new. I did this because I have no clue what is going on in this lab and wanted my song to convey this sense of being lost. I used sounds from scraping the product out of the Buchner funnel to the methanol dispenser dispensing 5 ml of liquid. The song goes from lulls in the track to hectic sounds and sections of the song to show how in the lab it can be calm, and you can be waiting on a reaction for twenty minutes and then in seconds everything goes downhill, and you have several things to be doing and observing so nothing goes wrong.

LIFES MOVES SLOW In The Lab

In this track, I follow my morning routine. I wanted this track to be the most realistic sounding of the album, this way to bring the listener into my life and give them some sense of what is happening for the first song. You hear me brushing my teeth, turning on and off a fan, and making coffee through familiar sounds. The song starts to change to more of a sci-fi sound when the coffee sounds do not stop and become repetitive and stuck. Then I used sounds from the cafeteria and even the shaking of trail mix in a bottle to make an underwater sound. The sound is to represent the “haze” of the morning. The song ends with me closing the door and starting my day.

LIFE MOVES SLOWLY In The Morning

This song represents stress in my life. It is the shortest track on my album because it does not consume my life as my routine or major does, but it is present enough to acknowledge. I came up with this idea during finals and then started recording sounds when I became stressed. The song starts with a series of sounds that are eclectic that eventually all add up, in the end, to make what I consider, chaos. This is important because it was meant to show how everything adds up and can all hit at once when I am stressed. I also did slow ease-in in the beginning with the typing to show how I am dissociating from the environment around me and that I am entering this stress state.

LIFE MOVES SLOWLY In The Chaos

This project will take you through the ups and downs of a day at Fairfield University. Track 1 starts off with a morning coffee and will take you through a daily morning routine. Track 2 will continue throughout the da. This track will explore through classes and trips to the gym. Lastly, Track 3 takes you through the end of the afternoon to the nighttime. This track includes showering and getting getting ready for bed. Enjoy this album as it takes you throughout a universal experience at Fairfield University.

Class in space

Jonathan Oronzio