MP4 Process

1.  For this first part, choose a place where you regularly go.  It could be a spot on campus, the grocery store, your home or any place else.  Write a brief paragraph about your normal activities in this place.  What do you notice?  If you were to close your eyes, what sounds let you know that you are in this place?

        This year, I live in the Drackett Tower. This is a wonderful place, because I make a lot of friends in there. When I have a free time, I usually go to the dorm of my friend, Yuan. I am very enjoy those time which is in her room. Generally,  we study Math together and talk a lot of interesting things with each other. In addition, Yuan is very good at Chinese zither which is a Chinese  musical instrument. If we have free time, she will play the zither for me. I really like the sound of zither. Those sounds can  make me calm and relax. Yuan's dorm is very neat and organized. Every book in the bookshelf. In a general way, the Chinese zither is placed in a safe corner. I think this is a comfortable place. If I close my eyes, I will hear Yuan's voice and the voice of turning page from her or her roommates. Yuan's voice is very sweet and this is a special voice and let me know where I am. Certainly, the most special sound is the zither sound. This sound is the sign of this dorm. 

2. Finally, craft a summarizing statement of this process.  How did your initial visit to the place transform through the process?  What kind of emotions do you think your final piece creates?  Did you make overt decisions about the piece or were there happy accidents?  What was satisfying about the experience?  What didn’t you like? Post your final statement to the dropbox on Carmen.

       When I sew the required of MP4 which is choosing a place which you usually go, I think of many place, such as Thompson library, SEL, and Ohio union. However, although a lot of place have their own sound, noise or quite, but those sound maybe so ordinary and not special. Then, I thought my friend, Yuan, is a good player of Chinese zither, and I usually go her dorm to listen her playing. I remember that when I enter her dorm, there has a certain fragrance. Decorations are very clean and tidy. All books are in the bookshelf. There have a laptop and a cup on her desk. In the middle of her room, there has a beautiful Chinese zither. The main idea of my project is that I want to make the classical and modern music mix together. As we know, the Chinese zither is a old musical instrument from Chinese ancient. Now, we live in a modern city, and we have a lot of modern music and musical instrument. And to think, if Chinese zither encounter with  guitar, drums or bass, what will happen? Maybe this is a wonderful music. Thus, in my project, there have two big part, and each of part have three little parts.  The first big part is classical Chinese  zither sound, so I use the Old vinyl Brass, Lunar Bounce and Edgy Bass to express the classical feeling. Then, I added the Drums sound-Crunchy Drums in the first little part of second big part. This is a transitional part. You will found that the two big part are the same music, just different with the rhythm. When the modern music mixed the original zither sound, the zither sound also change. they like the rhythm of today's life, very fast. So, I choose the Bass sound which I think is the symbol of modern music add in the original sound, such as Grind Bass, Punk Bass and Colorful Bass. It is worth nothing that the last sound, Colorful Bass is more soothing than Grind Bass and Punk Bass. I think when those two musics have been mixed for a period of time, the classical music also affect the Bass sound. So the sound become soothing. I think in the  process, I feel very satisfying, because this is a kind of incorporation, classical and modern, east and west. However, I think there also have some shortage. First, the time is too short to express enough feeling and music. Second, those sounds which I added are not very rhythmical.