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3 shots of Young Pari$’s music video “Sephia” which features Yung Joc. This official music video was filmed in LA California in November of 2016. Young Pari$ continues to produce and is coming out with an album called “Indigo Volume 2″ in the next few month. Keep your eyes and ears open everyone! 

Here's the link to the music video “Sephia” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OXMvEhkJ2w

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James Bishop, 21 year old musician, baking bread at Madruga Bakery in Coral Gables Florida. This is just Bishop’s “side job” while making music is his passion. These two jobs leave him nothing but having his stage name be @bishopthebaker. Check him out on instagram to see how he produces his tunes. 

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Alex Mines

Professor Damian Barbeler

MUSC 2653

14 June 2018

My final assignment is a story on my life progressively moving forward starting from a single childhood memory up to now. I start off with the sound of rain and a noise stick which I created from a recent childhood memory. This memory was simply me playing with a noise stick on a rainy day with lightning and thunder. Throughout the song, the use of the word “waves” in the lyrics reminds me of many easy going times I have had throughout my life, whereas the “I don’t want to drown” are the obstacles I had to overcome while being thrown into different environments or “thrown under the waves. The variations in the song are the different small environments I’ve traveled to in the world and stayed in for a short period of time. The bass represents the obstacles while the piano violins and flutes represent the smooth and good times. I used a jazz type bass rather than normal bass chords.  I matched up the bass with the kick of the drums.

Voice JT Kapiloff.

The main chords came from a Liverpool bass, a deluxe classic piano and modern strings. At 15 seconds I recorded and added a car driving by me on the highway because a I thought it panned beautifully and helped me transition into the main part of the song.

Editing-wise, I started off by making sure every MIDI or instrument was compressed. I also chose whether the left or right ear would hear the noise at specific times by latching each layer.  I varied the transposition of each instrument to diversify the song.

I panned the drums in the beginning of the song starting off with one drum layer on the left speaker and one drum layer on the right speaker ultimately panning them back together in the middle after the rain stops.

In the beginning I added a pitch correction filter to each noise stick sound to match the main chords of the song.

I added a soundscape and arpeggiator to fill the song. I put a bitcrusher and stereo delay filter on the soundscape to tremor it a little.

In order to sound crisp and clear I EQ’d the bass and Deluxe Classic Piano’s. Here are a few of the EQ’s. I started off with a few simple chords on the piano and eventually added a violin. I added 3 other layers on the piano and 2 more on the violin and compressed the layers as well as added EQ’s to have a layer-cake type EQ to balance out the frequencies.

I added in flutes to add more high frequencies because I was lacking a filling of room in higher frequencies. I compressed the flutes as well. I added a layer of flutes and put a Tremelo affect on it.  

I quantized the notes to 1/16 and also quantized the voice.

I used 8 layers for vocals putting a spring reverb on one layer which caused secondary vibrations, distorted one layer in the high/mid (around 3khz) area frequency wise. I used DeEss’s and a vocoder on one of the vocal layers. I also used a direction mixer on the voices.

I added in a violin to keep the song continuous and made another layer upping its transposition by 12.

Here is all the blocks of notes. The full song.