Song deconstruction

I did the song I kissed a girl origionally by Katy Perry, covered by Attack Attack!

Attack Attack!'s version Listening Framework

Katy Perry's Listening Framework

The lyrics of this song are identical. They are both talking about kissing a girl and really liking it, even though they are in a relationship with a man. To me, that's a little scary seeing that the one band is made of all men. Anyway, they're saying women are attractive to both sexes. Men are attracted to them naturally, yet even straight women can become attracted to a woman.


The melodies are also the same. The melodies are based mostly off of a arpeggio. Which are thirds between notes and then the octave above.  For example a C chord is C E and G. With an arpeggio it is C E G and C.  The notes are played individually in that order usually. The notes aren't directly the same as an arpeggio, but they are close. The only difference in melody is in the Attack Attack! version, they scream the bridge making it the breakdown of the song. 


The music quality of both songs are similar. They have the same structure. They have mostly the same melody. The rhythm of Attack Attack!'s version is faster and more upbeat as Katy Perry's is a medium speed with a light shuffle. The intensity of Attack Attack!'s version was more prominent than Katy Perry's. The speed was faster in Attack Attack!'s. The Timbre was different as well. Katy Perry's version was more pop as Attack Attack!'s was punk. I believe the pitch is higher in Attack Attack!'s version.


I believe both are good, but I prefer Attack Attack!'s version better because it is more upbeat and light hearted sounding. Both are good, and that is only my personal opinion.


Link to Attack Attack's version
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHDDoUhQWEE

Link to Katy Perry's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAp9BKosZXs&ob=av2e

Reflections on sound design

 

The scene above does a great job effecting the mood and feeling of it just by using audio. First it creates a representational space by just sound. If listened into head phones you can feel the direction of which the sound was coming from. When the bottle clinks, the man is sanding in the opposite direction of which the noise is coming from. The sound gave you directionality. When the man is walking you can here his foot steps. This gives the scene a sense of movement. 

The scene also does a good job with different modes. The scene has referential sounds as in the man falling to the ground really isn't that loud. It also has semantic sounds. The pop can and the glass bottle aren't really there, but they are perceived as such in the scene.

Link to clip: http://www.putlocker.com/file/A41742E4B6E0E6B4#

Brainwashed

 The lizard brain is the part of the brain that is our critic to everything we create and do that lies outside of the boundaries of “normal” or what everyone else does. It tries to keep you from failing, but in the process makes you a very harsh critic to everything else your do. Making art becomes very hard to do in this situation because anything that is art or creative is out of the normal. Art doesn’t have boundaries so the lizard brain has no clue how to process it. It automatically rejects the art and tells you it is not sufficient.

These two parts of the process are really important to me. I am going into a creative based job field, and it makes it really hard for me to accept what I am doing with my life when my “lizard brain” tells me I am not doing something correctly. I have an extremely critical voice, and it is helpful to know that everyone deals with this problem. I have learned it is okay for me to fail.

I fail all the time. Many people refer to fails as funny.  I don’t every time I screw up my critical voice gets worse, but this manifesto makes so much sense to me. I understand that we as humans will always fail. It is about being able to collect ourselves and retry again, and go through the same process again. This process shows me how to find my true self and who I am to become.

This process is repeatable in my opinion. This blog is a perfect representation. I have multiple posts, and every post builds on itself making it a more complex piece. Each time I go through the same process. I connect with people, I am generous with my thoughts, I create art through words, I acknowledge that I may be critical about what I am saying, I ship the blog by posting it, and sometimes I will fail. Then at the end of the day, I learn from my failures and try another post.

This process most of us are doing already. I look now and see that I am. I do realize though that I am too critical in my work and who I am. I do consider myself to be an eccentric person, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a place in society.  Even though the normal may think this, or try to make me feel that I must change myself to fit in. I have learned in college and through various experiences that it is just better to be myself than try to pretend I am someone I’m not. I feel as if others like me would embrace their individuality instead of pretending to be who they’re not, our society would be a much better place.

I have also learned I can’t be safe. I can’t play scared and go into an industry that doesn’t matter to me because that is also not being true to myself. I have seen it so much sense I’ve been in college. People really like doing one thing and go into a different occupation that they don’t really care about. Or they won’t go to college altogether. I have truly learned who I am this year and that its okay to be different. I no longer worry about the people who are brainwashed into thinking its not okay to be who your are.