Reflection of Second Composition

When we finished our composition, we asked miss to listen to our composed song. She said that there was another method involved which is minimalism. Tanya and I were quite surprised though. Miss was satisfied with our music and we were very happy. We are the only group who used all the methods. So our 2nd composition involved Cipher and Minimalism. We listened to our composition again and did some research about minimalism.

Video of 2nd Composition

This is our YouTube link. We couldn't upload the video because the file is too big.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9samLb_I3DU&feature=youtu.be

2nd Composition

I've decided to work with the same partner, Tanya,  because we worked well together and we make good compositions together. We both decided to interpret this artwork. It is because Miss kind of interpret this artwork for us. So, it will be easy for us to make our 2nd composition.

We chose to do new a method of composing our own music which is Cipher. We decided to do something new so we could learn new method instead of just learning one method. It may help us in future - probably. What we did is we gave each colour a cipher including the background. 

This is the picture of the notes used. 

 

After we finished figuring out the cipher for each colour, we edit it on mixcraft. We combine all ciphers together and organize it on mixcraft. It was kind of hard because there are so many things to edit since there are lots of ciphers for our second composition. We organized the ciphers according to the artwork we chose. We start our music with the yellow cipher which is the left bottom corner on the artwork and we add everything in order.

We chose G#, E, E and F# for background because it is green colour and G represents g in green. E represents e in green. I repeat E because there are two e's in green. A, C, E, C and D for yellow because A represents Y if you turn it upside down and add a single line under it. C represents l in yellow. Just straighten the line, then it could be an l since C uses just 1 line. E represents e and D represents o in yellow. G, B, D, A and B for dark green because G represents g in green. B represents r because it kind of look the same if you remove a line in B. D represents d for dark and A represents a in the word dark. G, C, B and E for red because G and C sounded good together. Since B represents r for dark green, we decided to do the same thing for red. So B represents r. E because there is an E in red. B, E, D for Dark blue because B and E is the first and last letter in blue. D id for dark. B, E and D is the notes that we used for dark blue, but we actually repeat the notes to make it sound good. For dark brown it is D, B, C and A because D is for dark so as letter A. B is for brown and C represents O in brown. If you attach the end of the C together, it will end up as an O. There is actually no specific reason light brown. Playing those notes together just sounded nice and we just chose it as light brown. Light Green is E, F, G and A because G stands for green and E is used in green. For the other notes, there is no specific reason. That is all.

This is how we organize our cipher. First we split the picture into several pieces. We start it with the first piece. On the first piece, there is yellow, dark green, dark brown, dark blue and red. So we add each of the ciphers of the colours that were mentioned on mixcraft. But before that, we add the background cipher onto mixcraft then the colours. On the second piece, there is red, yellow, dark brown, light green and grey. On the third piece there is red, dark green, yellow, dark blue and light brown. on the forth piece there is dark brown, light brown, yellow, light green, dark blue and red. On the last piece there is light green, dark blue and light brown, After we organize them on mixcraft we edit all the notes whether it is a high or a low note and the pace of each notes, whether it is a long or a short note.

Our Composition on Mixcraft

The first, second and third track is the background, forth is yellow, fifth is dark green, sixth is dark brown, seventh is red, eight is dark blue, ninth is light brown and the last track is light green. It looks kind of messed up, but when you listen to it you'll find it awesome. This actually took a long time to edit.