Working on my final piece

Today as I was working on my 7th sketch, I got the inspiration I needed for my final piece. I just worked on how to deconstruct a melody and slowly guide it towards chaos in order to inspire a similar section for the ending of my final piece. Thanks to this, I progressed a lot (on my final piece) and quite quickly. There’s still some more experimenting I want to do before considering the final piece as done but the 7th sketch is finished and I’m much more relaxed now. I feel my final piece is much more adventurous than my previous ones and am very excited to see what my teachers think of it.

A big reason for this progress, I think, was going to see the orchestra yesterday. I went to see the 9th symphony, which I was hoping to see for a long time. A few minutes before they played, instead of their usual tuning, they sort of started rehearsing independent parts so it was just total chaos. This was very unexpected but also quite useful for me because I recorded a big part of that on my phone and used this recording on my 7th sketch and some of my past ones (the more chaotic ones) the enhance them. I’ve also included it in my final piece for the last section (the chaotic one) I was unsure about.

For this chaotic part, aside from including the recording mentioned above, I’m planning to mix two of my previous sketches : the one in which I mixed all of the chaotic recordings with the one that is all cut-up. Concretely, I’m thinking about slowly adding the chaotic sketch under the main melody (during the middle section) and then gradually cutting up bits of the melody so that it slowly loses its structure.

I’ve also been talking to Ed (another music student) about the possibility of him recording a small rap section so that I can also deconstruct it parallel to the melody. He sounded quite pleased about it so we’ll see how it works out!

In general, I feel this piece is a huge step forward for me and hopefully that fact will be reflected in my music.

This is a picture of the concert hall of the Barbican Centre, which is where I went. The place is incredibly beautiful and seeing the orchestra play one of my favourite pieces was absolutely astonishing.