Jina Park (TA: Jordan Bartee)

I had an amazing jamming session with four friends (1 male vocalist/acoustic guitarist, 1 electrical guitarist, 1 bassist, 1 drumist) out of the blue one night, as I was originally just joining to listen to their jamming session. I started singing/humming melodies with their jamming in the middle and joined in my first jamming session. We were there for around 6-7 hours straight and it was an amazing experience. This kind of music producing, where one person/instrument started playing a melody/beat, and other people joining in spontaneously felt very natural, lively and also very exciting. Using the instrument tool in Logic I wanted to try out the same thing, only this time, I was the only person playing different instruments. Starting with the melody and beats, I started adding layer after layer to create this piece. I eventually separated the parts, looped them and re-arranged them so that different parts were introduced in different times in the piece. I also manipulated the volume so that the part being emphasized (often the one being introduced) was louder in volume while the rest of the audio was lower in volume. The pitch of the bird sound was altered to match the guitar sound in the beginning as well. It was very interesting to see that adding an instrument or section can change the mood of the song in a subtle but critical way. This song, in a way, is a study on building layers and how different sound effects affect the listener to feel in a different way.

I’m very happy that computer programs such as logic allows one person to compose music with different tracks of such a diverse array of instruments using only a keyboard. One solid fact that I’ve learned from taking the Computers and Music class is that composing electronic music has indeed become much easier in time. I’m very excited to have learned to use the logic program, and to have found one method of composing that really works for me and that I really enjoy doing. I look forward to producing many more pieces in the future. As a dancer and visual artist also, I look forward to incorporating music into my future works as well.


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