For this project, I shared some of the music I have been working on recording. I tried to give context to what part of my life I had drawn much of my inspiration from, and shared some of my photos with the class. One of the important points of my context was the tragic loss of my good friend, Roberto Garcia. Bob. Bob was an amazing and unique person, and a wonderful friend. Not a day goes by that I don't miss Bob. A lot of the work I have put into recording my music this year has helped me to cope with it.
It was difficult for me to share my work with my classmates, and I am posting an even smaller sampling of the work here than I presented in class, this is mostly because I feel like this is something that I'm not ready to share with the entire world. I don't feel comfortable putting everything up for anyone to see just yet. It's not that I dislike you, dear reader - not at all. It's not you, it's me.
The first song, which should load above, with the page, is a song about watching your friends and the people around you making mistakes. Mistakes that you cannot do anything to stop them from making, like the Catcher in the Rye, you can't save them all, sometimes you just have to let them try for the gold ring. Nonetheless, you hope that despite all of the bridges they're burning, that they won't somehow catch themselves on fire as well.
The other song, which is almost more of an audio piece is available here. This one was done with guitar loops, and a sample of "Network". It is entitled "Our World is Getting Smaller", from his line where he claims "our world is getting smaller and all we say is please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms" - I feel that unquestionably now more than ever before, we are constantly being invaded, even in our own living rooms. Advertising is targeted online, ads appear in all facets of our entertainment, and the creep just keeps creeping.
So yeah, my apologies that I'm not comfortable completely documenting this work for the entire internet to see, but it is just something that I'm not ready to share yet.