Tuesday 27th September- Concept Development.
Spent today's class discussing in groups what inspires and motivates us when it comes to creating audio. After brainstorming everything individually we discussed how we can use our inspirations in relevance to our own individual projects.
After mapping out everyones ideas I now have a better idea about how I am going to look at creating the practical side of my project.
My main influence for doing this research stems back to my time at school and even during the HND course. I've always had a slight problem when it comes to concentrating on revision and researching and always found music to be the one things that made the most boring task more bearable. I've always found that pop, rock, blues, jazz and folk genres helped me the most when it came to subjects likes maths, physics or digital audio theory etc and that's the big inspiration behind me wanting to use these kind of genres when it comes to composing for my project.
One of my biggest inspirations in terms of songwriting is John Mayer. The thing I like about John Mayer is his ability to write pop, rock, acoustic and blues music which is a diversity I myself want to enhance as a songwriter.
This is John Mayer's version of the blues classic Crossroads. With this song its the tempo and the melody that captures my attention and it songs like this that really inspire me.
This is an example of another John Mayer track but this time it is an example off one of his acoustic songs Stop This Train-
Although this is acoustic it has the same values and effect as the rock/blues genres. Even though its just a guitar and vocals its still a good tempo and has a great hook/melody so it still catches your attention.
Another artist that inspires me is City and Colour. This is his track What Makes a Man-
This again has a good steady tempo and great melodies but the main thing is that the song is constantly driving which is important when gearing people up to do a task that they may find boring without music.
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