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Rama_An exploration through Ecuadorian Soundscapes, Contemporary Music and Literature
No full textThis project presents a conceptual album featuring original compositions by the author, including six instrumental pieces and four experimental narrated tracks. The album explores Ecuadorian cultural identity, blending traditional musical elements with experimental sounds to reflect the author\u27s heritage. It incorporates harmonic progressions, melodic structures, time signatures, textures, and instrumentation from Ecuadorian folk genres such as Albazo, Yaraví, Pasillo, Bomba, and San Juanito. These are fused with contemporary music and spoken word sections to enhance the artistic concept. Collaborating with Ecuadorian writer David Padrón, the author aims to examine Ecuadorian society through a literary and musical lens, merging cultural sounds with diverse influences. The goal is to bridge past and future, creating a thoughtful artistic and personal experience for both the audience and the artists. “This paper was written with the assistance from generative artificial intelligence. Additional information in Appendix II.”https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-production-technology/1360/thumbnail.jp
Electric Guitar and Beyond: An EP Exploring Six Genres with Analog and Digital Techniques
No full textIn this master\u27s project, the author explores the electric guitar\u27s versatility across six distinct genres: pop/trap, techno, cinematic, psychedelic rock, and synth wave. By experimenting with analog pedals, amplifiers, and digital plugins, the author crafts unique soundscapes, pushing the boundaries of emotional and sonic expression. Each track showcases the electric guitar\u27s transformative capabilities, blending traditional and modern production techniques. This EP highlights the author\u27s creative journey in reshaping music production, using the guitar in innovative ways to generate original sounds. The project transcends conventional genre limitations, demonstrating the limitless possibilities of sound design and technological experimentation. Ultimately, it offers listeners a captivating glimpse into the future of musical exploration and the boundless potential of the electric guitar in contemporary music.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-production-technology/1372/thumbnail.jp
Summon the Elector Counts
No full textThe composition, orchestration, and recording of my symphonic work, Summon the Elector Counts, which I wrote for a video game trailer, are the subject of this paper. With the help of my orchestration experience and the precious tools at Berklee College of Music, I was able to move through the many phases of composition, sound design, mock-up production, and final recording at the renowned London Air Studios. Working with skilled colleagues, carefully preparing parts and scores, and going through the difficult stages of mixing and mastering the finished recording were all part of the process. This project\u27s conclusion demonstrates how to combine cutting-edge technology with classical orchestration methods to create a composition that is demanding on players and moving on listeners.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-scoring/1254/thumbnail.jp
We\u27ll Die as Brothers - Film Music as a Cultural Eye Opener
No full textMy CE project was for me the best introduction of me as a composer and a creative person. I really wanted to find a way to express myself, to create something individual and special, that only I would do. My preferred style throughout the year revealed itself as heavy deep music. I did have one change of mind, after thinking I’ll write a heavy loud and angry piece, all ways led to drama. Another thing I cared about and did was talking about a meaningful social or emotional subject – something that should be spoken, that should be more exposed, from a moral point of view. It’s a big part of my engine as a writer. I also cared a lot about the connections I created along the way while finding the video, because I think that the original piece is a masterpiece and I would love to work with anyone from that team in the future. I hope I did my best using all the skills I learned so fast over the year and reached a climax where my artistic ideas can come true through my skills and abilities.
In many ways, I was culturally and artistically educated through TV series and film. As I grew up in Israel, in a cultural world led from far away, in English, by people from different cultures and countries then mine – by European countries and the United States, I was looking for my way as a musician, an artist. I mostly found it in series and films. I found stories about the places that my favorite songs came from, people speaking the language of those songs. But mostly, I found my role models and answers in there as stories about society and relationships. I was also a woman in a feminism-wise-wings-spreading world and was coming out of the closet looking for answers about my Sexuality. I watched, for example - the very first Avatar movie, 90210, Grey’s Anatomy with the amazing sync work by Alexandra Patsavas, Enigma, the boy in the striped pajamas, Game of Thrones, and later on - sex education and big mouth (And more...). All had a message about society and people that I needed to hear. Many of my friends felt the same, we were creating our music and also noticing how powerful it can be. I noticed that the music was always the part that made me cry, laugh, understand, connect. I think it effects most people like that.
The strongest moments in my opinion are the ones where the music brings to the picture a part of the content that’s not obvious from the picture itself and tells us something new about the story, even convincing us. Contrasted music in TV and film has an eye-opening effect and ability, strong enough to send important messages that can’t be seen in the actual picture of a film without it.
In my piece for our final recordings project, I chose a scene that has a strong human message, and I tried amplifying it and making it come alive through my music. There are numerous examples of scenes in all kinds of films and TV series when the inner message is too big to be said in words, and although it is told within the story itself, the moment of conclusion and complexity in many cases couldn\u27t have been transferred through without another layer of “voice” representing another hidden side of the story, contrasting it to amplify it, or suggesting all sides of the story all together at the same time - and that’s music.
In this paper I would like to analyze my music for the scene I’ve chosen as an eye-opener for social cultural and inner-emotional issues.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-scoring/1259/thumbnail.jp