A music I made by my dream

Music of My Dream

Actually, in this assignment we were supposed to make music with our video camera. One day, I watched a story about a haunted house on the Discovery channel. And that night, I had a dream. This dream was about my family trip to the beautiful countryside, and the only house we could stay was haunted. I was so scared when I went inside the house, but a interesting thing happened in the room I stayed. There was a pigeon in my room, at first I was scared of the pigeon, but later on I found this pigeon to be so adorable. This pigeon understood what I was saying, when I said, “sit”, the pigeon sat down, and when I said “stand”, the pigeon stood up. A haunted house story wind up to be a happy time with the pigeon.

A labyrinth with the music I arranged

Labyrinth

Actually, this is a lesson plan my team made for our class, Human Development in Art. In this lesson plan, we will have the students exchange their labyrinth drawings so that each group has another group’s drawing to work with. Students can use rhythms, tones, melodies, music they have known, vocals, or instruments to decode the labyrinth they were given in music. Here is the music I arranged for the labyrinth my teammate drew.

Making movie

I found myself being more sensitive of what is happening around me – the sounds, the motions, and the people after we made the movie on Wednesday. It seems like every moment is unique like performing music, a fleeting moment in our life. In this activity, Dr. Gilbert asked us to imitate the motion we recorded.

At first I was not able to grasp the point of “imitating the motion” he threw at us, but after a few days ruminating, I finally came up with two answers. By imitating the motion we just recorded, I detected two interesting things, first, I found myself not being able to duplicate the motion correctly all the time. It is just like a word which might be spoken differently with different emotion, accent, or articulation. Second, I found by trying to imitate the motion from memory, I wind up adding some motion that wasn’t recorded just like a motive being developed in composing music. And finding a motion or sound around us is like searching for materials in composing music. First Dr. Gilbert asked as to get materials, then he asked us to pick one to be our motif, and by imitating the motif we had a motion of our music!

3 lines Poem: A New Yorker

I’m a foreigner in New York sky,
Struggling with different culture in my life,
I know I will survive in my mind.

Why I’m in music

Twenty years ago, a father spent a half of his monthly salary to buy a used piano for his 6-years- old little girl. That was when the little girl started learning piano, the first time she played it, she just couldn’t help but love it, not like other children, who may need parents’ coaxing to sit in front of the piano, she would just go play the piano while her playing time.

Yet, the girl’s parents had higher expectation for her than just being a music teacher. She didn’t gain the agreement to go for music but business major. Being struggling in business studying, the girl immersed herself to join lots of music communities in college. Those connections gave her constant outlets for the urge to perform music.

I was the girl, who masters in Music Education now. Have gained tons of enjoyment in music, I firstly went for Piano Performance Program to fulfill my dream of being a piano teacher. Yet after a semester concentrating on piano technique, I soon realized the curriculum of Piano Performance limits the development to be a music educator but performer. To fulfill my ultimate dream to be a professional educator, that is why I am in Music now!