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MUSIC 101: Introduction to Creating Electronic Sounds
4 Unit EP

Tamilore Awosile
Title: l'atterrissage
Link: https://soundcloud.com/tawosile/sets/latterrissage
Album Art: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D7CXcDaOekEYa69b-aFB_NQ_kFOGVueq/view?usp=sharing
Statement: “l’atterrissage” (the landing) is inspired by Mathieu Kassovitz’s 1996 film La Haine (hate).

The title - “l’atterrissage” is a double entendre, drawing from the iconic quote opening quote from protagonist Hubert, as well as marking my “landing” as a solo artist.

The opening track, “tout va bien” (everything’s going well), features the aforementioned opening quote, over a driving hip-hop beat. The second track, “l’histoire de deux villes (l’interlude)“ (a tale of two cities - interlude) features a spoken word performance by Gabriella, exploring the disparity between the suburbs and the centre of Paris, two worlds within the same city. The final track, “l’hymne (pour Abdel)”, is dedicated to Abdel Ichaha, a victim of police brutality who’s fate set off the riots at the beginning of the film. It is a cover of Braxton Cook’s Hymn (for Trayvon).

Michelle Bao
Title: grandiosity & gods
Link: https://stanford.box.com/s/kke30fp00zmnjkjfxfff7zlxoua3y5rj
Album Art: https://stanford.box.com/s/rwlq8yzqovgc6r4bklx2lgli60wroa5d
Statement: My EP, titled grandiosity & gods, explores themes of spirituality, arrogance, and the push and pull between the two. As someone who came in with no prior experience with electronic music, I relied heavily on the techniques that I discovered through this class. The pieces follow a narrative. The first piece, genius, relies heavily on electronic sounds through a sample of Mount Everest by Labrinth, and captures the sensation of being on top of the world, feeling an entitled and deserved arrogance. The second piece, salvation, relies heavily on two samples, Pray for Me by The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar and Take Me to Church by Hozier. It captures the fall of a once proud person who is desperately pleading for prayers, for church, for any form of help as they realize who they are. The third piece, falling, uses samples of Violent Crimes by Kanye West and Rain by Sunday Service Choir. It captures an internal reckoning, a fall, a spiritual conflict. The fourth and final piece, praises, uses a sample of Lift Up Your Voices by Sunday Service Choir and captures the joyous power of gospel music as a humbling experience and a means to wash away your arrogance under greater beings. As someone who is not religious but thinks that religious music is such a powerful art form, this EP pushed my own relationship with music and spirituality.

Andrew Bempong
Title: Black by Popular Demand
Link: https://soundcloud.com/bem-pong/sets/black-by-popular-demand
Album Art: https://stanford.box.com/s/sg4p9ewupm9knr8nbehhrxmevgz1h1oi
Statement: Without question, black culture has dominated practically every realm and facet of modern music for decades now. By 1994, the relentless tide of underground, urban hip hop came crashing upon our cultural inland and began topping the charts—the culmination of hundreds of musical influences and shifts governed by black creativity. Often, however, by the intangible nature of cultural propagation, it is quite difficult to pin down the exact African and African-American roots that gave rise to popular, culturally black music. Black by Popular Demand provides back to b(l)ack experimental pieces juxtaposing top R&B and Hip Hop hits with element

Michael Cao
Title: Housewarming
Link: https://soundcloud.com/user-505374193/sets/music-101-ep?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Album Art: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zguvb1ULptads6GNw7dXlwBaLNJnzbHG/view?usp=sharing
Statement: For my EP, I fine tuned and compiled 4 works from this quarter. The tracks encompass a few of my current favorite music genres—tech house, r&b funk house, big room house, and lo-fi hip hop. Working on these pieces, I was finally able to put my years of piano and music theory training to use to convert the ideas in my head into full-fledged pieces. I really enjoyed experimenting with different textures, sampling from some of my favorite pieces, and exploring all the capabilities of Logic to synthesize the sounds I am looking for. One thing I really focused on in all 4 pieces was the percussion, as I feel that it plays a great role in creating a nice groove and shaping the vibe of the piece. I truly learned so much from this course, and I definitely have more confidence in my music production capabilities and will use the things I learned from this class to create future compositions!

Kadin Hendricks
Title: Imaginary Times In Made-Up Places
Link: https://soundcloud.com/supermcsweet-636895643/sets/music-101-final-ep
Album Art:

Statement: After years of saying I’d release an EP, I have thanks to Music 101! This EP is the culmination of my evolving taste in electronic music over the years, as well as an attempt to channel some of the massively varied emotions the last two years in particular have brought. From the maddening repetition of Vox, to the eerily alien landscape of Phylum, to the simpler but now complicated pleasures of parties and other people in the EDM songs Iris, Howl, and Waiting, this EP has allowed me to make the song I thought I would when I first thought about producing music ten years ago, and has shown me that so much more is possible beyond that.
A few bonus tracks from before this quarter are included in the LP version here! https://soundcloud.com/supermcsweet-636895643/sets/music-101-final-lp

Justin Jasper
Title: Through the Night
Link: https://soundcloud.com/qifxbciejlh3/sets/through-the-night?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Album Art: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17U6jqk7JeQ0sfxUoJRoGdiuYxtVE02EcnOz6b15TKsQ/edit?usp=sharing
Statement: “Through the Night” was meant to be a representation of an individual’s plunge into a dark, grimy environment as well as the duality of my own personality. The order of the songs represents different parts of the nighttime- for example, the intro song, with more melodic, upbeat tones represents the vivid, picturesque scene of a sunset. The song uses no explicit language and revolves around the theme of love. However, at the end of the song, listeners can hear the song devolve into a much darker scene, which establishes the setting for the next two, middle songs. The middle two songs, “Loop” and “Freeze” represent the darkest part of the night, as well as a more unhinged, grimy personality. Unlike the first song, “Loop” and “Freeze” use explicit language and the lyrics hold a more nonchalant, apathetic tone. These songs represent the unhinged part of my personality, as well as my physiological desires. The lyrics do not place emphasis on anything meaningful, but instead refer to tangible desires such as money and women. The final song, “WYD”, thematically is a combination of the first song and the middle two songs, and represents the dusk just before dawn. The song is not as grimy as the songs before it, but it is not super upbeat and lighthearted either. “WYD” represents the struggle an individual faces between trying to follow their heart and follow their present desires. Overall, the four songs each represent different parts of the nighttime, as well as different extensions of my own personality. I believe that the nighttime tends to reveal aspects of one’s personality that are typically restrained, and this EP reflects that belief.

Speedy Laster
Title: Music 101 EP
Link: https://soundcloud.com/user-23209834/sets/music-101-ep?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Album Art:

Statement: For my 4-Unit EP, I decided to experiment with using a Zoom H2N field recorder like we did in the Sonic Terrain project, but instead of capturing nature sounds, I wanted to capture music in its live, raw form. I covered four of my favorite songs using my acoustic guitar, voice, and a tambourine and piano that I found in the CCRMA Stage room–where I recorded my project (see EP Artwork). I set the zoom recorder on the “surround sound” setting, recorded all the various audio tracks one at a time, and then layered them on top of each other. Very little processing was done to the tracks besides a slight EQ and reverb in order to have the music be as raw and authentic as possible. I hope you all enjoy it!

Kevin Liao
Title: Sky Burial
Link: https://soundcloud.com/kevin-liao-775540098/sets/sky-burial?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Album Art:

Statement: I found that my songwriting and composition work in this class and others has aligned itself around themes of death, beauty, and impermanence. Sky burial refers to a Tibetan Buddhist practice in which a body is generously fed to Himalayan vultures. Stylistically, the EP centers around a single synth sound that uses a harmonically heavy oscillator as well as a square-wave LFO to modulate a low-pass filter, creating a glitchy noise that is wholly synthetic but sounds oddly familiar.

Caleb Liu
Title: End of Humanity
Link: https://www.calebliumusic.com/stanford-music-101
Album Art: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fhrnm_Zl3jMenomggrQTbr7aaHZdk1FH/view?usp=sharing
Statement: End of Humanity is a collection of four original orchestral compositions, created using midi and sample libraries. The pieces form together to tell a story of a great war that kills off humanity. The first piece is a march which represents the people going off to fight in the war. The rhythms in the snare drum and heavy brass resemble a traditional march structure. The second piece captures the chaos and disorder that the war ensues; the war causes humanity to be terrified. Fast runs in the string section, forte brass chords, and heavy percussion help characterize this piece. The third piece represents the penultimate war that causes the end of humanity. It has similar elements with the second piece and ends on a sad note. The final piece reflects the mourning and loss of the human race. The minor chords and instrumentation give off the feeling of loss and sorrow. I hope that my EP showcases the abilities of the orchestra to evoke emotions and feelings. My goal is for the audience to feel excitement, fear, tension, and sorrow while listening to the pieces.

Daniel Mottesi
Title: Room 212
Link: https://soundcloud.com/user-725907330/sets/room-212?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Album Art: See Link
Statement: This EP is really the cumulation of everything I've learned in this class. I tried to include as much as I could from each project I worked on, and to be as creative as possible. Some examples of this are how in the first song, intro, I got all of my percussion noises hitting a pencil against a cup and then EQing it to get different sounds (such as a kick, clap, high hat, and squeak).  In my next song, mood change, I used different soundscapes throughout the main part of the song to create a cool ambience and texture. These soundscapes consist of the sound of a singing bird (singing nightingale), a sample of breaking glass during a snow storm, and waves crashing on a shore. I also used what I learned in the sampling lecture to sample James Brown's funky drummer to create the beat for the song. And these are just a few examples of things I learned from the class that I was able to implement into this EP. In all, I feel I could add a lot more to this EP. This being said, releasing this EP publicly is a huge step for me - I've never published anything online that I've produced before, and it feels liberating to release something, even if I don't see it as perfect. I feel that breaking this barrier of releasing my first music will be a catalyst for me to release plenty more music in the future. 

Zoe Schramm
Title: Classical, reimagined.
Link: https://soundcloud.com/zoe-schramm/sets/classical-reimagined?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Album Art: https://stanford.box.com/s/kqqfeswjbvso24yknlprxd1za26vt0aj
Statement: An avid student of Classical Music and its histories, it’s fitting that my EP reflects this. The suite challenges expectations in engaging with Classical Music, especially through the exploration of form, rhythmic ambiguity, and non-accoustic timbres created through the use of electronic filtering.

Both during Josquin’s lifetime and following his death, pieces composed by others were attributed to him for marketability. The first track, entitled Josquin, explores themes of authorship, especially in terms of sampling.

The second track is based on Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo and is in sonata form, with the exposition as the original clarinet excerpt. The development assumes a polyphonic texture incorporating electronic filtering. The piece concludes with a polyphonic recapitulation using the acoustic clarinet timbre.

The last track features Stravinky’s Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo and is organized in a linear fashion that exposes the piece’s wide range, in terms of pitch and energy.

Sal Spina
Title:The Spring Ingredients EP
Link: (Soundcloud removed most of the songs for copyright issues; they are all uploaded on box) https://soundcloud.com/itschiefbeef/sets/the-spring-ingredients-ep
Album Art: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wCXX2qBRI-CRXlrhJaOa8j4hYgeLBkoA/view?usp=sharing
Statement: The Spring Ingredients EP is a culmination of mashups, flips, and edits in preparation for the Spring 2022 (and 3rd) edition of Meat House. I set out to create a new 45-60 minute mix, but ended up with something better: performance ready mashups. Before taking this course, I was unable to take my live mashups and recreate them in Ableton, where I could tune them to my liking before repackaging them and saving them for live sets. This project allowed me to solidify some of my favorite ideas and have them ready to go. Mixing these songs would be a true challenge - the vibe and flow vary greatly and most songs are primed to be set starter or re-starter songs; hence, the strong openings and long outros. Each song in the EP should be exciting and intense, meant for more aggressive sets.