Not long ago, to get familiar with a music editing software none of us had encountered before – Soundation, my music class was tasked to create a short, simple track, in accordance with an online tutorial given to us. Simply, the assignment was to create a 24 bar composition in soundation with some key elements present in the tutorial, such as our own vocals, and use of the built in soundation samples.
Firstly, I had a lot of trouble wrapping my head around the software, not only because of my lack of experience with such programs, but also, in my opinion, an all around relative unfriendliness to the user that soundation has. Partly due to this, I wasn’t able to produce anything with the sounds I had in mind and ended up settling on some super simple repetitive guitar chords rather than a more complex countermelody, because it was the only thing I could find that didn’t sound like a tin can.
In the end, even having conceived of the whole song, having lyrics and a good idea of the melody all throughout, I never finalised it on soundation. This was in part because of a lack of time, but mainly because I had become so hopeless with the composition in this state – with way too digital sounding instruments, and a lack of complexity I wasn’t sure how to fix – that I decided to leave it as is.
these are the lyrics i had written (I don’t really like them at all) they’re very short as i wrote them catering to the 24 bars required of us – though i never actually finalised them.
I think im semi transparent / Or at least i wish i was
Cuz when i look around and smile / Only backs of heads look back
One day i found a pair of eyes / Like me they searched the crowd
A look of desperation matched mine / I knew it all too well
I recognised his cellophane skin / And he recognised mine
And here you can listen to the most recent, unfinished state of the composition:
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