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In this assignment I was tasked with using a DAW to produce a Hip-Hop track of 32 measures that represents a picture. I chose a picture of various football players kneeling during the national anthem. Some of the boundaries included using a midi file and a prerecorded loop. A DAW is a Digital Audio Workstation in which you can edit and create audio. A midi is a Music Instrument Digital Interface. A midi is a computer generated audio playback file which reads notes in some form and plays them through different sounds.  The image above of the San Francisco 49ers kneeling during the national anthem represents more than just disapproval of the current state of our nation. It is a movement. This movement represents the distaste for police brutality and unfair treatment of Black Americans. It coincides with the Black Lives Matter movement. This inspired me to use quotes from our current president on his view on this movement. I also used audio from a Black Lives Matter protest. Kneel on the Seal
When I created this piece I took into account many specific musical elements. Some of the elements I considered were silence, building intensity, and a powerful ending. When implementing silence I thought it would be good to isolate the words that are most remembered when hearing Donald Trump's speech. I also used it to emphasize specific words in a news report which make the incident part of the movement. To build intensity I added more instruments and different drum set beats. Some of the sounds I chose included, hip hop drums, a synthesized brass sound, and an electric bass. I chose these instruments because they resemble a loud energetic crowd. I also worked in different sound effects such as vintage record background noise, a national anthem announcement, and different bass drops. These effects helped the piece move to a new section smoothly. I also used fade in and fade out on some of the tracks to smooth the edges and starts of the track. I actually didn't really encounter any issues as the program I used, Soundtrap, was very user friendly and easy to navigate. Soundtrap let me physically see how the beats of the track lined up and how the sounds line up with each other. Kneel on the Seal DraftIn this portion of my DAW I created a section "B" to my Kneel on the Seal project. I used a midi keyboard to create a motive that is passed around the different synthesizers. The different tracks I used were, a voice over of someone singing This Land is Your Land. I upped the reverb, flipped the track, and edited the range in which the track is played at. I also used the announcer saying "please stand for the national anthem". I distorted the sound by changing the pitch and speed of the track. The last track is a sound of a record player on loop. This is supposed to give the song a more creepy, old-timing sound. I used the EQ and Reverb to change the qualities of sound for each track. I created the form by doing simply an ABAB pattern, I took out the beginning vocals for the second time the a section was played. Edited VersionIn revising this work there were many aspects and processes to creating and editing the final track. I decided that using the format ABA'B' layout would best fit the merging of the two audio clips from Donald Trump and the news-caster. I decided that merging the two sound files in the A' section would bring a whole different idea to the song. I merged the news-caster saying "the unarmed" and Donald Trump saying "son of a bitch" back to back. I did this because I believe that that is the way that some our high-up officials view the black community. I used various material from this land is your land and reversed the sound file. I also slowed it down a ton. At the end of the song I brought back all elements of the A and B section, I also Isolated the word "my" in This Land is Your Land. I think that it speaks on behalf of how many African Americans feel. They feel as if this land was made for the white man. The technology helped shape my work with the limited amount and types of effects I could put on the audio clips. My final project is very representative of how people respond to assaults on the black community. There is outburst, silence, then outburst again. This is unfortunate because without the constant assessment and ridicule of the unfairness and prejudice toward the black community specifically in police brutality cases.
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