Now that we’ve established I will soon become famous (I will continue to speak it into existence, not to mention my yearbook quote promised my growing fandom I will debut on the Ellen Show within a set time frame), I have established my first public musical venture. I posted three tracks on Sound Cloud, to which I instantly received two likes, one from an odd man somewhere in the mountains I presume and another is spam although I imagine it were a woman named Kim.
“stoptalkingkeeptalkingamitalking” is a mesh of sounds I collected through shuffling paper, the distant crash of a waterfall, an echoic of bustling chatter, and a few instruments overlapping to create a rhythmic flow. The emotion heightens to a feeling of sensory overload before it dispels into a smooth tone that may be interpreted as relief or of ominous distance.
“cognitivedissonance” reflects on the incongruity between our conscious thoughts amidst the abstraction of awareness and the disparity between behavior and belief. The audio features a late night fast car drive before arriving to a waterfall with a gradual increase in proximity, the turn signal and seatbelt ding can be heard in the background as well as a beat that reminds me of black-and-white tv static. I would love to be able to figure out how to create a sleek rhythm that this audio can lead to, I imagine the contrast to be pleasant.
“busycityandbrightmangoes” reminds me of running through a city midday in the leftover summer sun and the cool breeze of the autumnal air. The audio consists of several tracks, including a loop of a perfume spray, the sound of a car speeding then slowing to a stop on loop, a turn signal, a basic drum beat, a waterfall in the distance, and lively percussions muffled in the background.
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