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"Wander" Final Project


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Wander



    Soundcloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/user-855245494/wander-sound-experiment-final?si=6316b1e59f964a6a8b2a88f1d800afa0


    Since I have very little experience with making music, I wanted to try it again for my final project. My intent with this piece was to still make something dark like my last experiment, but to make it more cohesive and musical. The beginning of the piece opens with a lot of random sounds, because I wanted it to feel like the music was coming together, making itself. I made this piece longer because I want the audience to sit with it, and get into its mood gradually.

    By making this project, along with all the other projects we have done in this class, I am participating in what McLuhan calls the "Global Village", the idea that the world is so interconnect now that the world is once again a small village, culturally speaking. For example this final project is participating with that, because it is uploaded to Soundcloud, where practically anyone in the world has access to it now. Not only that, but on a subconscious level I am sure I was influenced by people around the globe in making "Wander". I was not just drawing from American art and music when making it, but on all the  international music I have listened to, along with art from all around the world. While I am inseparable from my American culture, I am also inseparable from this global culture that resides around us, mostly on the internet. 

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  1. Jingquan Xiong (Klaire)November 21, 2021 at 6:48 PM

    I like it. I feel I'm in a plot while listening.

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  2. K. D.November 21, 2021 at 7:00 PM

    I totally think you should keep trying out sound and soundscapes. Both the sound projects you've done have turned out wonderfully in my opinion, and I'd love to see where you take sound in your film work.

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