Drumroll Please...

Final project time! The greatest time of year!

The show will open with a beautiful rendition of a jazzy background track. Or so I hope. Using my expert Garage band skills, I will generate a background track that can be used to play different jazz tunes to (hopefully) help with improvisation skills.

The second act will star myself, Kesley Mankel, and Sean Bradley, doing our own rendition of the YouTube hit, "Sexy Sax Man." Since Sean and I are expert saxophonists, we will serenade others with our take on the famous George Michael tune, "Careless Whisper." Hopefully, we will surprise some people in random places, such as practice rooms and dorm rooms, as we win the hearts of the audience. Each person will edit their own video, to make the project more personalized.

The third act features myself! And only myself. It will be a website dedicated to my meager repertoire, to let others know exactly how far I still have to go in order to become a professional musician. The hope is that the site will grow, and word will spread about my style of saxophone playing.

The finale finished with Finale Notepad! Using my skills as a composer, I will attempt to arrange a piece for quartet, preferably a fun tune that audiences can easily recognize. My top choice at the moment is the theme song from Disney/Pixar's Up. It is a beautiful tune, one that I hope will sound good with four saxophonists. 

And that concludes my final project. Of course, these plans are only tentative at the moment, and are subject to change. This is only the beginning!

A...Different Experience

I attended the Electroacoustic music concert, and needless to say it was....interesting. To be honest I did not really enjoy it much at all. Just not my cup of tea.

The video of the iceberg was just really strange. I cannot imagine sitting there for 70 minutes listening/watching this video. It was very monotonous. Perhaps it was art, but I have never understood some forms of art, and that was definitely a form of art I did not understand.

I was also extremely distracted during the pieces with the violinist. I kept being distracted by his beard, and the thought of what might happen if his beard got stuck in his bow...so I could not really say much about those pieces if I tried, because his beard was just too distracting. But they were probably two of the most interesting pieces in my opinion. 

I did actually enjoy the last piece, however. I could tell that the piece was made using real sounds that can be found in everyday life, and that made the piece fun to listen to, to try and guess exactly what the sounds were.

Needless to say, the concert was an experience. One I'm not too likely to repeat in the future, but at least I have been exposed to a type of music I would not normally be exposed to.