Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Back in Business

I was having a rough time after my proposal because I uploaded the wrong video for my elevator pitch. I am just moving on with this project and will try again some other time. I am back to square one with the presentation part. I, once again, have no idea what to do. I am not comfortable recording my voice but there is no way to sing it so I don't know what I'll do at all.
As for making the aria, I have already come up with some words. Now all I have to do is translate it into the language of my choice and create the accompaniment. I think I am leaning towards no interview with Taylor due to lack of time. Basically, at this point it is just going to be a lot of decision making. That and making things happen.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Rude Awakening

I thought I uploaded my elevator pitch the night it was assigned but I found out today that it is not here. I will try again tonight I guess and hope for the best. At this point in my project it is no longer an issue of writing the aria; it is more of how I am going to present it. I was planning on singing it to the class but Mrs. Newman suggested I just show the class a few lines from it instead. I've already begun writing it.
So I may just write a few lines and show those instead of writing an entire aria.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Next Step

Today I am going to research some popular languages for arias. I know some popular ones are German, French and Italian. Although I have sung in all of those languages, it will still be very difficult to come up with context that flows and makes sense. This project seems impossible for someone as amateur as I. I suppose I could ignore popularity among languages and do something easier for me like Spanish or Latin.
I also plan to look through some arias that I have sung and others that I know and research the meanings of each of them later on. To be quit honest I have no idea why I chose to do this. I guess it is the thing I object to the least because I do not want to do this project. Music is indeed my passion but not enough to do this for it.

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Proposal

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZAbXpcK6Rn1b24aajOePPGkAcrtKuM61SHpOodOj9vc/edit?usp=sharing

Slow Start

At least now I have more of a set plan. I wasn't really sure at first. After I interview Taylor I will get an idea of what language to do. Maybe I could use an existing aria and make it my own. Like a remix. If course I would give recognition to the original composer. I already have a few ideas of pieces I could potentially use... maybe I don't have a set plan after all. More like a general idea I guess.