Pietro Martini - Senior Project

This was a great week. I completed and recorded a demo which I enjoy very much. It is very similar to a Joy Division piece, and the lyrics are from three different poems that I have written in the near past. I will incorporate this piece into the performance I believe.

Everything else besides this is great, and rehearsals have been pushed to this weekend. When I come back, all I will have to complete are a couple of quick touches. I believe that I am on a good note.

Not too much to report this week. Just that everything is going well and recitals will begin soon to practice the final set list. A final song is being added to the queue, which will incorporate some recent poetry that I have written.

Until after break everything should be relatively quiet.

This was a rather busy week. I continued writing out the parts to some success as Mr. Judd recommended and now I am in great shape for the upcoming winter trimester.

During December I will organize weekend sessions to practice the parts with the other musicians who will perform with me. They have agreed to these upcoming practices.

Week ending November 13th

During this week I completed notation for the bass parts of three of the songs. This weekend I will work on the guitar parts of some of the songs that require them. I should be done with notation by the end of the next week before the Thanksgiving break, allowing me to recite the parts with the musicians for the entire portion of the winter trimester before the Christmas break. I believe that I am on check due to this. 

Week Ending November 6th

This week was very quiet. I was very busy with other subjects, and I was not able to further expand on some musical ideas. However, I was able to complete several poems, and this will help me for the next week's activities.

I hope that next week I can meet with Adam Judd the entire time to finish all of the songs and to slowly begin to rehearse with the other musicians.

Entry for Week ending on October 23

This week has seen an interesting era shift in the style of my songwriting. I am working on two doo-wop fashioned songs, but I believe that I should only focus on one for its completion for the concert. I will meet with Adam Judd the week of October 26th in order to fashion the four different vocal parts which I wish to include.

This song will be fairly short, at a length of 2:30 reminiscent of songs from the 50's. 

Blog Entry for Week Ending on October 16

By the end of this week, I have basically finished every song that I will be performing for the project. From this point on, I will be teaching the musicians that I wish to be playing in my back up band all the parts. I will try to arrange meetings every week in order to give them the notated parts that I will be writing out for them throughout the rest of the time, and they should be able to have all the parts perfectly before the beginning of the winter vacation. 

Next week I will also begin to request where the performance should take place within the school, and at what date and time it should also be played. 

Entry for Week Ending on 10/9

This week was quite interesting. I almost finished two new song ideas, and I have written two poems, one of which is finished and which I am very proud of. I hope to rework my rubric in order to make poetry an element of my project. 

What I will work on next week is developing the instrumentation for the two songs which is underway already and to continue thinking of ideas for more poems. An outside consultant is being searched for in order for me to have a professional opinion on the elements that are contained within the poems. I hope to complete all of this by Monday with the help of Alexandra Cromwell and Kenneth Sacks. My latest work is posted below

Pergamum:

As the morning swirled neon paintings on the field's listless dew,

The rain children thronged the translucent thrones of the skies

To ambush a chariot of stars so dauntless and few,

Before their consecrated pilgrimage to the moon's undraped glass eyes

Dismembered at the floor of a rich whirlpool of creams,

Her arms are the conifers which fondle the rose clouds that pass

Over covetous heavens and past sugared magnolia streams

Nymphs never cease to cleanse her in chromatic brass

So come hither oh muse so diaphonous and fair, close your eyes to float with the gales borne from euphonious recline. When I stumble to drink from the perfume rich ocean's blond hair, which unalloyed jade meadows will my heart find in thine?

Senior Project post of Week Ending on October 2nd

This week moved rather slow, but there was some good interaction between Judd and I on a couple of different issues. We discussed a number of other songs, and how key signatures can be modulated in many different ways. I have two new projects that I am working on, and I am hoping on incorporating my poetry into these new songs. 

Next week I will focus on this, and will begin to assemble the resources for my final performance. This should happen after the winter break will I have all of the parts notated.

Entry for Week of September 20-25

During this week, Judd and I worked on mostly technology/notation issues. He taught me the basics of writing the rhythmic components of notation, and taught me how to transpose treble clef to bass clef. Later on, he showed me how to apply this to garageband, which has its own quick notating device, and he leant me a MIDI keyboard and connector in order to use a better keyboard than the ones provided by the computer. 

In the future, I will continue to develop my other songs, and I will start getting my fellow performers together in order to teach them the different parts once I have them notated. Hopefully this can be done after-school or during the weekends.

I am stuck on one song's verse conclusion, and I am going back and forth between two main ideas that I cannot decide upon. I would like to finish it with smoother transitioning chords that would allow for the melody to deliver its final punch before the arrival of the chorus section. Other than that, I am moving along slowly but steadily.