Assemblage Part 2

Hey guys, so this blog is going to be a continuation of blog seven and talk more about assemblage and how it can be used in the industry. In order to get on hands experience in assemblage, I decided to create one. I chose to create a song by pulling different words from a collection of Maya Angelou's poems. Then I chose to take the background music from "Butterfly Fly Away" by Miley Cyrus and put the song I created to it. Creating a song is not as easy as it seems. There is a lot of timing issues, getting the right flow of the music and making sure that beat matches the words. I struggled with finding the right music to my song, and it is obvious that the background music of Miley's song clashes with my song. This experiment helped me form the meanings of composing and writing. Just because I "wrote a song" does not mean I composed it. There are more techniques that are used when composing. To compose a song, you have to take into consideration the background music, the audience, the timing and the actual words. It has to flow easily. I think my song is a good representation of bad composing and a weak assemblage. Just because I believe it is bad and weak does not mean I don't think it embodies what assemblage is. I had all the parts but I didn't put them together correctly, which made the song sound off. This mistake allows me to recognize now the difference between writing and then making that writing come to life and composing. The term design is key in creating an assemblage. Everything is built in a certain way to create a certain piece with a design. I did not design my song as great as I could have. Audience is another term that is extremely important, especially in my case. My audiences are those that listen to music, especially music about love and heartbreak. Those music listeners would probably be disappointed in my song because although they can relate to that connection lacks because there is no flow with the music. Sometimes you need to fail in order to see what could have gone better, which will help you understand the process more and improve. This project also taught me a lot about reuse. It is hard to reuse someone else's work to create a new meaning. It takes away from their original piece but it also takes away from your message because people are so accustomed to the original. I've attached the youtube video of the song. Listen at your own risk. :)

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