Brief Synopsis
I am a composer of the 21st century, and I compose new age orchestral music, but I can emulate almost any sound because of my background in programmatic composition. I’m known for my flute playing, but I also play guitar, steel drums, and piano. I started playing when I was about 10 years old, and I've played many concerts with an orchestral band, Percussion Ensemble, rock band, and I've played solo. I have composed several pieces of music since August of 2009.
Many kinds of music influence me because I don’t limit myself to one musical style. I’m inspired to write music by cultures, nature, people, my life, surfing, travels, and my studies of martial arts. The type of music I try to emulate is a more natural orchestral sound, but I don’t limit myself to one type of sound. I also tend to write in the Heavy Metal genre because of my influences from Metallica. I compose music because it allows me to create something that is totally unique to me, but other people can enjoy it as well. When I compose I feel out of this world. I’m all to myself, and no one can distract me.
Composing music allows me to share my true thoughts, feelings, and ideas. When someone hears my music I hope that they can grasp onto it and connect it to their thoughts and feelings because I feel good knowing I helped someone express themselves. I also like covering songs, or rearranging songs with my friends. I've played with a couple of rock bands like Almost Honest covering different songs. With this group I played the flute which gave this rock band a very unique sound that we all liked.
I'm inspired by Jethro Tull, Metallica, Megadeth, The Police, and many many other musical groups. I have dreams of being a Music Educator at a university one day. I want to study at the Berklee College of Music and major in music education and composition.
Many kinds of music influence me because I don’t limit myself to one musical style. I’m inspired to write music by cultures, nature, people, my life, surfing, travels, and my studies of martial arts. The type of music I try to emulate is a more natural orchestral sound, but I don’t limit myself to one type of sound. I also tend to write in the Heavy Metal genre because of my influences from Metallica. I compose music because it allows me to create something that is totally unique to me, but other people can enjoy it as well. When I compose I feel out of this world. I’m all to myself, and no one can distract me.
Composing music allows me to share my true thoughts, feelings, and ideas. When someone hears my music I hope that they can grasp onto it and connect it to their thoughts and feelings because I feel good knowing I helped someone express themselves. I also like covering songs, or rearranging songs with my friends. I've played with a couple of rock bands like Almost Honest covering different songs. With this group I played the flute which gave this rock band a very unique sound that we all liked.
I'm inspired by Jethro Tull, Metallica, Megadeth, The Police, and many many other musical groups. I have dreams of being a Music Educator at a university one day. I want to study at the Berklee College of Music and major in music education and composition.
Artist Statement “People can learn from my example that something can come from nothing, What I have become is a result of my hard efforts”-Franz Joseph Haydn. When I started Music Composition I had no idea what I was in for. I was sad, because I had just come out of band and I had no music to tell me what to play, but little did I know then that the music telling me what to do was a curse. I turned the tables, and now I tell music what to do. I can create lovely or grotesque melodies accompanied by parallel motion or contrasting motion. With the flow of ideas from my pencil I can create scenes of consonance or dissonance in my listeners mind. My ability to manipulate music came from a very narrow understanding of music; my broader understanding came from very little. It wasn’t just my hard efforts though, it was through the hard efforts of my teacher who inspired me to pursue a career in Music Education.
My compositions tend to reflect who I am as a person; my melodies tend to be bright, uplifting, and consonant. I try (maybe too hard) to be positive and cheer other people up, but it's also the people who lift me up for whom I compose. I've composed many songs about other people, places, and ideas that inspire me, hurt me, crush me, and love me. I'm a flute player, so this instrument has always greatly influenced my timbres of choice when composing, but it has also led me to other more unique timbre choices. For example I think the flute and sitar sound well together, but those two instruments are from different locations and cultures. I listen to a lot of different music from Death Metal to Baroque, but the band that has probably influenced me the most is Metallica. The way I phrase my melodies is very similar and I tend to use similar formatting in my compositions. As a beginning composer I remember the first time I tried to notate something. This is humorous to me because I thought I was such a big shot and knew what I was doing! Then I didn’t know my stems were backwards or that my note looked like a lollipop. I didn’t know how chords or intervals functioned in music, and I was cursed back then. I only knew to read something that wasn't mine, notes on a paper. Music Composition let me out of that cage, and flung me into a creative musical side of me I never thought I possessed. Like I said earlier I am now the master of the music I want to create and hear, and I can create a piece that is pleasant to listen to and theoretically correct.I tend to often compose in a parallel structure harmonically, but I'm trying to break out of this to create more contrast. I had so many turning points in my musical education, but one of the most significant for me was learning chord progressions. Chord Progressions are so amazing because they’re a formula I can plug a melody into and it gave me a solid foundation for my compositions, and another important turning point was when I learned to read bass clef proficiently. In all reality I compose for the same reason that people read, listen to music, play an instrument, or any other independent activity. I compose because it gives me a border-less area in my mind to let my sound creations flow like water in a stream, and I compose because it allows me to be all to myself and free from worldly distractions. Music in any form is important to all cultures because it is a universal connection of thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Music is a social norm that all people participate in, and it is my culture and life long need. If I didn't have music the love and joy in my life would be gone and never seen again. Music simply said is life, and I have “become [the composer] I am as a result of my hard efforts”. |
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