Taylor's Music Memoir

  Eazy- E - Real Muthaphuckkin G's, Released in 1993, Compton California. This form music does not just serve society, but furthers our societal evolution as a whole.       This is G Funk, a sub genre in early 90's rap culture known for it's connections to Jaz as well as the use of more electronic based sounds. This is theorized to be due to the influence of DJing in this era of the rap genre, which I previously discussed briefly in my last blog entry when I was discussing the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Although it was discussed briefly there is so much more to this culture and their music and why it was created and how it gained influence. This piece in particular shows a great example of G Funk, with the work comes long electronic whines which go from high to low ranges producing a fluctuation in the pitch.       The sound produced is long and overdone but on purpose as it makes the song feel lazy, like other works in the ear...

  West Coast Rap/HipHop Music and the fictive dream presented by GTA San Andreas Song of choice: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Theme, composed by Michael Hunter, Released in October 26th of 2004, California.       The Grand Theft Auto video game franchise created by Rockstar Games released their fifth installment being San Andreas, created by Leslie Benzie's and Dan Houser their idea for the game was supposed to create a 90's west coast gangster culture setting even replicating famous west coast rappers of that time such as Eazy-E and Notorious B.I.G. and so on in the games character's. The musical element in the west coast culture they are trying to portray became the biggest symbol of the theme and arguably the most famous part of the game. West coast hip hop or rap is characterized by using more electronic elements which is theorized to be due to the west coast hip hop era being more oriented around DJing opposed to rapping, as well as being more fast paced t...

  Eminem's Lose Yourself, Oct 28th 2002, 54 Sound Studio, Detroit Michigan      This is Eminem's piece "Lose Yourself" as to which he describes exactly why he is an amazing performer, describing the struggles of mental and physical stress with performing in his lyrics for example "His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, there's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti, he's nervous but on the surface, he looks calm and ready." as well as tools he uses to stay confident for instance his life struggles and how badly he wants them to end is what he mentally focus's on to get in the zone. This keeps him calm during his performance to combat stage anxiety to give his absolute best. This is the key factor of performing, he says "You better lose yourself, in the music, the moment, you own it you better never let it go." What I believe he means is you have to lose your the panicked voice in your head that thinks what the cr...

  Lets Travel Back To Japan In WW2! Music pieces that are included:  (1937)Umi Yukaba , composed by Kiyoshi Nobutoki, lyrics based on a choka poem by Otomo no Yakamochi. Origin : Japan         Umi Yukaba was a patriotic song that gained popularity during the world war two era, although the song has a very uplifting   melody it is   accompanied with a fluctuating range from high to low making the song very emotional, the rhythm also strikes high emotions being very unique and non repetitive. In comparison to a lot of the other Japanese war songs such as our next piece this one takes the repetitive nature along with the dark and brooding, then replaces it with happiness and uplifting which makes this song much more disturbing, it is easy to be fooled. The Japanese and lyrics written had darker intentions with this uplifting melody, as it was reported by Enemy In The Mirror that it was usually was sung before takeoff by a kamikaze suicide...

  Brief Explanation of Topic and Underlying Content Discussed.  I am going to be exploring and reporting on the birth of the synthesizer, this will include what instrument was it's earliest representation as well as the improvements made to create what we know today as techno music using this instrument. The first piece I am going to show you is a current example of the synthesizer, this is a sound most of you should recognize, this example is from the film Beverly Hills Cop released in 1984.   Axle F by Harold Faltermeyer:  Diving Into The History      The first representation of synthetic sound presents itself as early as 1922 as with the Theremin as reported by Philharmonie De Paris, a publisher in Google Arts and History, it is a musical device that takes extreme control in ones physical body in order to play the instrument correctly. According to Carolina Eyck who is a knowledgeable guide on the subject, it usually consists of a box with two ...

  StarWars Theme Song Analysis Today I am going to be writing about the StarWars theme song composed and conducted by the brilliant John Williams.       This piece is absolutely iconic, with it's uplifting energy given by the melody it really makes you hopeful for the protagonist, maybe even a new hope *wink wink* this melody really does do an amazing job at building as well as creating the excitement, it almost sets the direction for the mood while the other components are the building blocks. The low repeated sounds of silence and dips in the rhythm build so much tension and illuminate these musical hills as we listen and make the sounds way more exciting to the ears, the pitch of the extreme high and low tones combined with the rhythm work together in this odd way to create these low dips and high hills that keep us always guessing what is coming next and makes you feel the physical excitement the film is trying to spread even though you would think an emoti...

John Carpenter's Halloween Theme  This influential theme song to the blockbuster film Halloween, by John Carpenter set the tone for October in 1978. According to Vox "It single handedly launched the era of the Slasher film" , it is one of the biggest films of all time as well as having one of the most famous theme songs. Hence for us researching this masterpiece in the season of October !     John Carpenter not only made the influential film, but also composed it's music. FarOutMagazine reports on the thought process behind the masterpiece, Carpenter says " The rhythm was inspired by an exercise my father taught me on the bongos in 1961, the beating out 5-4 time," It also took him only three days to compose the whole song, and ended up being the most memorized aspect of his career with its catchy easy to remember beat and rhythm.  What truly strikes fear and makes this tune perfect for a horror slasher is it's fast paced anxiety inducing tempo, it has n...