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ARTIST STATEMENT
When I first approached the assignment, I wanted to look for
sounds that would sound great together, make a beautiful song, and be really
impressive. Then I really wanted to represent a theme or s storyline instead of
having something that is just seamless and audibly much more coherent. We talk about inspiration and the
environment that surrounds us when we are inspired. I currently have 4 girls
sleeping in my living room and they were watching a chick flick late one night
and talking about the process of relationships and how there really are these
steps and these concrete progressions. Also based on current personal
circumstances in my life I decided that I want to tell the most basic
progression of a relationship trough my webspinna.
The first song is like someone seeing someone across the
room that steals their attention and then the heartbeat of asking them out or
having conversations with them.
The Andy Griffith theme song then comes into play. This isn’t as
seamless a transition that I wouldn’t have liked, however the point it that
ideal since of security and happiness when you date someone. Then the quotes of
expressing love. The bells represent wedding bells. The beat that comes into
repeat is supposed to show the routine like nature of the relationship at that
point. The children laughing obviously represent children coming into the
relationship. The Elvis song was used to emphasis the still very much “in love”
aspect of a relationship, however I wanted to play under the scene from Gone
with the Wind of the break up, because a lot of tines in most relationships
there is still love and admiration just it just comes down to the pain that one
person has cause the other and that fact that one person may still be in love
but the other, “Doesn’t give a damn”. The thunder is to symbolize the storm of
the break up and then the last song has this sadder basic beat that seems also
very routine like to represent the routine that many individuals have to
reformulate after a break up because their normality has been shattered.
Though I found the other reading on eclecticism very
interesting 9and very much like I was reading something Dean Duncan would say
in lecture) the form of the DJ spooky reading really got to me. I like how it
was all cyclical yet new at the same time. I liked that every time you touch on
a word it was different and kind of never ending. I felt like relationships are
very similar. They are cyclical but there is always something new and you don’t
know what to expect and it may match what was before and it may not. I used
this in my webspinna by not being afraid to use different genres of music and
stray for one singular set sound or style.
BomBom by Macklemore kept we thinking of the webspinna. It’s
a instrumental song he does and it combines various sounds and styles of music
and goes through this spectrum of emotions. It doesn’t really stick to one set
type of song. Though as I listen to BomBom I wish that my webspinna was more
seamless and more musically flowing that I had made it. Also Macklemore can be pretty cynical
and I definitely ended my webspinna with a cynical tone about love.
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