"August" by Lauren Shieh

My project is going to be using an application to combine multi-frame music videos together with the intention of creating a nature-inspired composition. Musically, I will choose to play instruments such as the keyboard, violin, viola, cello, and percussion as needed. Although I have little experience on keyboard and cello, I will do my best to incorporate them into the piece. My technical component will be recording my project in sync to a specific tempo within the app called Acapella by PicPlayPost. My musical composition will represent sounds in the environment and/or nature. I will compose my piece to reflect how I perceive sounds of nature, specifically during the month of August, as our environment begins to transform. I will print out a blank score sheet and create my composition physically. My goal is to make the composition a minimum of one minute and 30 seconds long with the use of all 5 instruments listed earlier. With the inspiration from different weathers like rain, wind, and storms, I will be producing a composition which reflects these natural sounds in August and the season of fall. Using my iPhone, I will record my video tracks on the app Acapella by PicPlayPost to organize the tracks and balance them to create my own composition. The skills that I currently possess include playing the instruments listed earlier. I will need to learn how to use Acapella through tutorials and youtube examples. My project will be shared with an audience of my classmates, family, friends, and community. My audience will care about my work because they have always supported me as I have played music throughout my life. I believe they will enjoy my musical composition and it will allow me to share a part of my musicality and creativity with them. My deliverability will be in the form of a video of my performance.