Justin G's Nature Compositions

CLEAN WATER:

POLLUTED WATER:


REFLECTION:

CLEAN
I gave the song a really slow tempo so it would be calm. For the loops, I began with the overlying sound. It gave it a calm feeling. Then I added some calm piano loops overlapping each other. This gave the song a mellow feeling, while keeping it changing. This basically continues throughout the composition with some sound effects and guitar, but since the loops are overlapping, it is never the same. For the pictures, I chose to do clean pristine water, since my other video was on polluted water. The song as a whole has a kind of sad mellow feel to it, as it is showing the awesomeness of the water that is disappearing with pollution.

POLLUTED
I set the tempo of the polluted composition a little faster than 120 bpm to give it a little more edge. I began the loops with the feedback effect at the beginning to add tension. I kept the tension going with a lot of special effects loops. The guitar and synth loops add the groove, while other synth loops add more tension. I broke the song down a couple of times and built it up, but not all of it is on the video. Its got a sort of whacked out feel to it to represent the pollution.

Wyatt V's Nature Compositions

The pollution part of my composition made me want to make something angry. I put more aggressive loops and a little slower than the nature one. the pictures were of a oil spill. the nature song was more relaxed but a little faster. The loops were more exiting than the pollution part. The pictures were to emphasize how cool nature is.

Caitlin M's Nature Compositions

Pristine Video:

Pristine Nature Reflection

When I made this composition I based it mostly off of this picture. I liked that it showed two people, just watching the sky, being awed by the beauty of nature. It reminded me of being a kid again. I think that the beginning of my piece represents clouds, and the darkness of nature...and then when the melody starts and the pitch of the music gets higher that represents the sun coming out, slowly but surely, awing the people watching. As the end slowly fades, that to me is the sun fading again. The piece gives off a slightly mysterious feel, but I like that because I feel like it shows the "bigness" of nature. Nature IS mysterious, because it is something bigger than us. The two people just watching the sun and clouds hopefully realize that nature is an amazing thing.
When making this piece i used pictures from online; Google and Photobucket. At first I was just looking for beautiful nature pictures, but when I found this picture I knew it was what I wanted to use and that was what gave me the idea for the theme of the sun overpowering the clouds. I chose the loops based on this theme, the beginning representing clouds, the middle representing sun, and the end representing the sun slowly fading. When I was done with the composition, I played with the tempo until it felt "right" to me.

Polluted Nature Reflection

When I made this composition I based it mostly off of this picture. For one thing, the picture creeped me out! It reminded me of heavy machinery, junk metal, and smoke. So those are the pictures I used for the rest of the composition. When choosing my loops I wanted something that gave me a junky, metallic feel as well as creepy/sci-fi-ish because that's what the main picture reminded me of. I wanted the tempo to be fairly fast, and remind me of a factory "pumping" out it's product, as well as "pumping" out pollution. I feel that the final result does produce a "factory"-esque feel as well as give off a junky/metallic/creepy feel.

Austin C's Nature Compositions

Polluted

The First thing I did was find a loop with a good polluted sound. Then I found a couple good synthesized loops that became my introduction, outro and the thing I based the rest of my loops around. The first loop I found I then put in the middle of my song and I made two tracks of it. One was distorted and low pitched, and the other was more clean and higher pitched to represent a clash between pollution and nature. I did the same thing with the two basses, threw in the drum loop to throw off the beat, and increased the tempo. The pictures were pictures of pollution in the world that I found on the internet.



Nature
The first thing I did was find the flute loop which I based the rest of the song around. Then I found some tropical and relaxing pictures on the internet that matched the relaxed, tropical sound of the bongos and other kinds tropical instruments like the cowbell. The final thing I did was find a good, close to matching bass line and slowed the tempo.

Colin M's Composition

Reflection
-I chose these loops because I wanted something that sounded cool and not sound bad
-I chose that tempo because that tempo was fast for the polluted and the slow tempo for the calm nature
-I chose those pictures because I always think that sunsets are always calm and polluted water is always like polluted
-I got my pictures from Google
-What I might do different to make it better is to go through the loops more

Curran D.'s Compositions

Reflection

Calm Video

I started the song with some base loops then added drums and sound effects, then i found some loops for a melody and out in an intro and an outro, i also slowed down the tempo . Then calm video since it turned out to be pretty eerie so i found some pictures for that, so then i evened out the sound and tried to span it through the headphones, then i tried putting in pictures at certain times and added finishing touches. Next time i could make it a bit more calm instead of eerie.

Polluted Video

I started the project bye keeping it a fast speed and then finding extremely abrasive beats and synths and eventually had some loops that sounded good together. Then
i found pictures that mixed with the loops and next time i think to make it better I could make the middle a little more abrasive

Dylan L.'s Composition

Reflection:
- I chose my loops because they sounded cool.
- I got my pictures from Google.
- I used clean water pictures because thats what the loops made me think of.