Ani's Composition Blog

Hello everyone, Here is the score for my final composition.

Growing up in two of the world's biggest cities, Manchester and New Delhi, I have a pretty good sense of the inspiration behind and the underlying idea of the piece. At some point, even I thought of composing of a piece to reflect upon my big cities influence and one thing that would have been the most significant in it was the traffic.  It not horrible, it's not bad, it's not a hassle. It's just traffic, just people going from place to place in their cars. Even though its just traffic, it's different everywhere. I have noticed the difference in the sounds of traffic for every place I have lived in. For example, the traffic in Manchester was a lot of stopping and starting of the engines of the cars because of the taxi culture there. In New Delhi, it was mostly richie cars with their amazing suppressed engine sounds. In Tennessee, you can almost always hear a siren in the traffic and sometimes even catch someone honking. From Paul Lansky's piece, I was able t...

Today, I show you into my temporary workspace that I have made my own, at my grandpa's place in Clarksville, Tennessee. Things are a little messy still since I had to move out of my dorm on a very short notice and had to haul everything to his place but bear with me. In this video, I get very raw, and tell you EXACTLY where I work (shhhhh). 😉

As the title suggests, my concert happened in my bedroom with my dog sleeping by me, since it was raining here in Clarksville, Tennessee.  All the lights were off and the room was completely dark. I could feel the unbelievably warm breath of my dog on my arm. I had downloaded all the songs onto my phone and loaded them into the playlist in reverse alphabetical order. I put my headphones on, turned the noise cancellation switch on, and pressed play. It was the most unique concert experience I've ever had. Once I was done, I didn't make any effort, I didn't even get up, I just laid there thinking, "Are we really alone in this universe?" The reason why I started on that chain of thought was because a lot of the compositions had that atoms. In fact, two compositions, Emily Stifter's and mine were about Aliens and ETA. Brooke's composition emphasised that atoms and that overall theme of the concert. Ben's "morning" sounds sounded very ghastly an...