Midde Song

Here's my newest music piece that's on soundcloud. I'm not that fond of it, for I was having a difficult time creating my own beat, but here it is. Please don't hate it tooo much.

http://soundcloud.com/sean-faust/seanfaust2-1

Sean Faust

Music Score Movie

      My movie has the music begin right as the pencil touches the paper. The transitions between different angles are also pretty nice, with how it fades in and out and how it moves between shots smoothly. The music in the movie goes well with the score itself, in my opinion, for when I look at the drawing I can see it in some art show or something with music in the background that is very similar to the music in the movie. Also, the title of the piece is in there for the perfect amount of time-not too long, not too short, but in there for just the right amount of time for the viewer to know what he or she is watching. The length of the movie also isn't too long. It is just long enough to keep the viewer interested until the ending.
      I think the music goes well with the score. The beat along with the bubble sound fits with the drawing because it's just smooth and relaxing enough to go along with the score, which looks calming for the smooth lines that make up the design. With the rest of the description, my last blog post seems, in my opinion, to describe the score very well, so please read my last blog post as well.
     

Music Score

As I was drawing my music score, I was just trying to be creative. As I was penciling in the spiral, I just started to branch out and so that created te spiral, the star, the orb, and the shape on the corners. If I think about it, the score could be a really complicated floor plan for a palace or for a safe so that a secret treasure could be very difficult to be found and stolen. The spiral also kind of looks like the inside of a shell. Perhaps since everything is connected in a complicated fashion, it could have been a subconscience way to try and connect the important things in my life that are difficult to put together at the moment, such as school, love, parents, and friends? Also, the dotted lines could be an attempt to put together a road map to the easiest and best way to cement these four things together, but the lines are not present in the whole score because that road map is not completed yet.

Saturday's Music

A couple of posts ago, I was talking about the type of music I was listening to because of the rain this past Saturday, and this is the type of music I love listening to when it's raining outside, or just in general. Pretending to be an awesome tour guide; sit back, relax, and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_TYlmTrIr4
-Sean Faust

The Boss

Bruce Springsteen is one of my favorite musicians of all time. My favorite song, Born to Run, and his album he released shortly after 9/11, The Rising, is frequently played on my iPod. I found this article in the New York Times, and I thought it was one worth taking a look at. If you have a chance, I hope you enjoy it. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/bruce_springsteen/index.html
-Sean Faust

Storage of Music

I was browsing the web, began reading this article, and it's interesting to think that CDs are still being used, since now most of todays music is being purchased or downloaded online. It's all about the iPod today. Here's the article, so I hope you check it out.
http://www.articlesofnote.com/mp3-music-players.php
-Sean Faust

Music Articles

"Kids can appreciate their parents' taste in books, their parents' taste in people, and their parents' taste in food.  What no adolescent can appreciate, however, is their parents' taste in music." This is so true. However, I'm the type of kid who enjoys all type of music, and I love the music from my parents, and grandparents, generation, such as swing music and Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Louis Prima, and in relation to this article, Johnny Cash. I was looking up music articles, and this one caught my fancy, so please take a quick look. http://www.articlesofnote.com/johnny-cash-music.php
-Sean Faust

Music and the Weather

It's funny how the weather brings a certain personality in people. When it's sunny outside, people exhibit a happy disposition and that brings happy and cheery music to the forefront. When it's cloudy and rainy outside, people exhibit a calmness, peaceful, and or meloncholoy personality and that brings out peaceful and relaxing music such as soft rock, R&B, smooth jazz, and smooth hip hop songs. I bring this up because this weekend I had a regatta in Long Beach, and the weather was everything but nice and sunny. It was pouring rain, really windy, and there was a chance of thunder and lightning, so the race ended up being cancelled. Sure, I was a little happy that the race was cancelled so that I didn't have to row in that horrible weather, but the rain really calmed me down. On the way home and for the rest of the day I was listening to smooth jazz and a little R&B with a side of soul music. This type of music really calms me down, and I really like to just look at the falling rain as I'm listening to this music. Music is not just enjoyable noise. It's a way to exhibit certian emotions at particular points in time. Sometimes one can tell what kind of a day someone else is having just understanding what type of music they're listening to.
-Sean Faust

Rediscovering of Music

This past Friday I was a little tired of hearing the same music from my favorite playlists, so I decided to go and do a little searching. I found an old playlist I had made on my iPod and found that it contained a couple of songs that I enjoy listening to and a few that I hadn't heard in a while. I decided to just go with the flow and I began to expand that playlist. I began to go through the long list of artists that I have compiled on my iPod and was pleased to come upon old songs that I hadn't listened to in quite some time. This made me really happy the further I moved down on the list of artists. I decided not to put the songs in any specific order so as to have myself guess which song would play next. Sometimes when you hear a couple of really good songs you want to listen to just those few for a while. Unfortunately, you begin to lose interest after a while and then you're found trying to look for new songs to play over and over again. That's why I love my new playlist. I came upon older songs that I hadn't heard in over a year and a smile crept across my face when I rediscovered them. So now my new playlist has over one hundred songs that are in random order, thanks to the shuffle button, and I love hearing all of them.

Sunday Post

This weekend I had a Regatta up in Oakland, and to get there we took a 7 to 8 hour bus ride both ways. You can only imagine that music would be a great escape to this driving nightmare. Going up, I put on my headphones, chose some relaxing smooth jazz, pressed play, and let my mind wonder. I love listening to jazz. It really calms my mind and it lets me imagine all sorts of peaceful and wonderful things. I used to be a pianist, and I don't think I could ever create music of that magnitude. If only I new what was going on in the jazz musicians brain during a performance...and lo and behold I found this article. Here's the link, and feel free to check it out. Pretty interesting stuff.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/music/2008/03/12/146821/Scientists-look.htm

Sean Faust

Music Score

My music score begins with the picture of the traffic in the middle. It's in the middle because the traffic noise was present all throughout the ten minutes. As you move outward from the middle picture, you will see other pictures that are small, large, and possibly faded. The small and large ones relate to their distance from where I was standing, and if they are ontop of other pictures, such as the birds, that means they were present when other sounds were also present. The faded images are those of sounds that were close to me, but were not very loud. The abstract pictures that are red and that have the falling leaves on them represent the wind rustling through the trees and just the sound of the wind itself, which was rather calming and helped me concentrate on the other sounds around me during the 10 minutes of listening. Other than that, the pictures themselves represent what they show, like the birds and the small dogs and the helicopter and the plane, with the exception of the black and white photo of the people standing around. That one is faded, so it came from farther away, and it represents people walking by while they were in the middle of a conversation.

Life Without Music

This past weekend I went to Vermont to look at Saint Michael's College. I took my iPod with me, but I never tuned into my vast library of music. Now that I think about it, it feels like something was missing. Without music, life feels akward, as if something is missing. Music helps calm you down, and it helps you ruminate over the days events.

Loyola Sounds

Bus and Cars--screaching rubber, engines roaring, close
birds chirping--quick, sharp clicks, far
construction--saws through metal and wood, far
wind--leaves rustling, close
kids playing--happy laughter, far
the switchboard inside the building--a sharp, hollow click, close
cans--metal clanging against each other, moderate
gates closing--metal scraping on metal, moderate
dogs barking--small dogs yapping, very short, far
birds flapping their wings--muffled noise, far
people walking and talking--loud talking, close

Sean Faust

Hearing and Listening

Hearing is simply the act of perceiving sound by the ear. If you are not hearing-impaired, hearing simply happens. Listening, however, is something you consciously choose to do. Listening requires concentration so that your brain processes meaning from words and sentences. Listening leads to learning.Most people tend to be "hard of listening" rather than "hard of hearing."

Musicians and Deafness

http://djembeslappin.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-do-deaf-enjoy-music.html.

I so wish I could understand and listen to music just by feeling the virbations the instruments create while being played. I know the best way to feel the music vibrations is to listen to deep and heavy bass and drums. I sometimes feel the bass vibrations through the steering wheel as I'm driving and when it's crazy bass, I feel the vibrations coming out of the speakers and my pants move a little bit. It's an amazing feeling. But if I ever go deaf, it would be really, really hard for me. I like to talk a lot and hear what people have to say, and I listen to loud-ish music every day for long intervals throughout the day. If I ever lose the ability to hear, I don't know what I would do. I definately know I would really annoy my neighbors or the people in the cars next to me because I will be blasting music with heavy bass so I could feel the vibrations. I think it would be the coolest thing if there was a portal or machine like thing you can walk into, put in a song, and there were no lyrics. Just heavy vibrations. Your entire body would feel the sensations of the music, and I think that would be one of the best feelings ever. That's why I enjoy going to concerts and standing close to the speakers. The pure power coming out of those things once my chest bounce back and forth and my hair moved a little bit, and I couldn't stop smiling and yelling at the top of my lungs. However, I'm a little hesitant to blast my car bass that loud. I don't want to totally destroy my speakers in my car. But it's dissapointing, for my bass can go much louder and heavier in my car, but I don't want to push it because I don't want to have to get new speakers. All in all, if I were deaf, I wouldn't mind that much when it comes to music. I would just crank it up, feel the vibrations, and have total disregard to those next to me. I want to listen to my music, and I'll do it, whatever means necessary.