Creative Project for Music Technology Capstone

The overall goal of the creative project was to create music that utilizes music technology in some way. I created an original piece of music using a Digital Audio Workstation during this semester. My personal goal was to create something outside of the styles that I would normally work in and hopefully in the process learn some new skills. In my video I discuss some of the different elements of the music, the various sections, and how it came together. The title of the song is “Horizon.”

Hi, my name is Kevin Slappey and I’m going to share a little bit about my creative project for capstone this semester. The general goal of the project was just to create some music by the end of the semester, but one of my own personal goals was to get outside of my comfort zone a little bit and expand my skillset. So the piece that I’m going to share with you is kind of like a lo-fi piece, which is not something that I would normally write. So to start it off, I started with this detuned bell sound. So it’s a pretty simple melody, but I made it so when the drums come in, it’s a rhythm that doesn’t always line up with the drum beat. And then to fill out the sound a little bit I added some chords. And that’s the main groove. Now I didn’t want that to be the entire piece, so I did switch things up a little bit every once in a while. So one of the sections sounds like this. There’s a section with a new melody and a different melodic sound. And then lastly there’s sort of like a bridge section where it’s very different. So to cap things off, I’m just going to leave you with the ending of this piece, which is called “Horizon.” Thank you.