Where I Am Now, And Where I Plan To Go.

What am I Doing?
Right now I'm on this belly dance music kick. There is form of belly dance originating in the United States I believe, called Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, and their music is amazing. It's usually made with electronic sounds, with a slow heavy base and creepy layering sounds. It's amazing. I wrote three songs in an attempt to create music that could be used for this dance style. And because I have a rather odd sense of humor I thought it would be funny to name them all after phobias. Some good arts to check out if you are unfamiliar with the music are, Pentaphobe and Maduro.

Where am I Heading?
I don't have a real defined goal in mind. I've never actually written my own music before. Right now I'm just thrilled to find that I can do it with some manner of success. But ideally I would like to keep on this track that I'm on, I really enjoy this music and I think it would be awesome to make more of it. Music around phobias is kinda my plan right now. I found this amazing list of phobias online, http://phobialist.com/#A-
So maybe I'll just work my way through that.

What Do I Want My Audience To Experience?
I want them to experience the music for what it is, an experiment, hopefully a successful one. I want them to hear the sounds and how they make the song, and hopefully understand how the music could be put into movement...also, I hope they get my humor with the phobia names. I also think it would be cool to play the music for some of the belly dancers I know and see if they think they could dance to it, or if I'm way off track and if so how to bring it back. Maybe I'll send the songs as files to my friend in Orono. See what her take on them is.

What Do I Want To Achieve?
I want to make music that people can dance to, specifically belly dance. I also want to be successful in creating music around a word that make sense. I love the idea of being able to write a piece of music around a word, making that word into a piece of music. I just really like that idea...so I would love to achieve a small collection of music centered around words...or more specifically the music representation of words.

Next Steps.
Obviously make more music. But to go into more detail.
1) send the music to my friend in Orono and see if she thinks she could dance to it and get any input/advice I can from her.
2) figure out Garageband more fully, so I don't have to spend as much time feeling my way through as I do now. I'm getting better each time I use it though.
3) Write more music, lots of it, even if half of it is garbage or super short.
4) Think about my final project for this class...and if I want to continue making music after this class ends.