MU1240G A1

Assignment 3

Assignment 4 Part 2

Basic Drum Mix

Ocean

Tempest

Full Moon

My name is David Bonomo and my T.A. is Matthew Peters Warne. My final project is a re-imagination of Coldplay’s “The Scientist”. I was inspired to do this project after we did our mash-ups. I was interested in taking the vocal tracks from a song, but I like to create my own music as oppose to using an instrumental from another song. My goal for this project was to synthesize a complete instrumental using the studio instruments in Logic, and change how the piece affects a listener.
If you are unfamiliar with this song, I would encourage you to listen to it before listening to my take on the piece. I obtained the vocal track online, which only contains Chris Martin’s voice throughout the piece. I cut it between verses and chorus, so it does not follow at the same rate over time as the original track. For the majority of the piece I raised the gain and reverb on his voice a little, the only exception being at the end when there is a large increase in the amount of reverb. All the instruments that occur in this piece are studio instruments in logic, but I changed aspects such as cutoff, attack, decay, glide and resonance using the ESX-24 synthesizer. My take follows a similar chord progression to the original, but creates a more electronic upbeat sound that I believe changes greatly how a listener perceives the song. My piece runs at four minutes and thirty seconds, which I know is a little over the limit, but I believe it is most effective at this length. If only three minutes will be listened to, I recommend starting from the beginning. Thank you.


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