Kelley McClure

 When it comes to creating a sound piece, I first thought I would scavenge the web, specifically freesound.org for samples to use and adapt around. But as the deadline drew nearer, I went into my old sample packs, turned up the BPM, and messed around. (Fun fact: the original tempo I planned to use was 600! Unfortunately, nothing actually sounded good, so I went with a more reasonable 300.) To be fair, I do generally like listening to fast BPM music and speedcore, things like Camellia's music come to mind. However, when it comes to approaching deadlines, increasingly complicated breakbeats that are much faster than they have any right to be makes perfect sense. I layered the kick at its original tempo as well as the one where it was sped up to match, which definitely made mixing a challenge, but the sound was quite fun! Sometimes, when making, it's important to just mess around, find out what happens, try to see what becomes of the things when used (and whether they suit your ta...

 The first photobook draft is sort of working, and I once again aimed to focus on the narrative structure within the photos I took and the stories told, both as a whole and within each spread. I definitely have some things I still am not sure about, but trying to get everything to snap to the print safe margins was an exercise in stubbornness I simply did not possess at that moment, and my goal was mainly to get the project done. For the cover, I wanted to emphasize certain words, and I followed the way text flowed from there. Articles being made smaller is also a technique I use often, so "to" and "the" being smaller made sense, while making the importance of serving and the ruler to which the performers serve clearer through contrast also helps. "The mimetic form, a technique that exploited rhythm, meter, and music, achieved the desired psychological response in the listener. Listeners could memorize with greater ease what was sung than what was said. Plato a...

"We now experience simultaneously the dropout and the teach-in. The two forms are correlative. They belong together... The dropout represents a rejection of nineteenth-century technology as manifested in our educational establishments. The teach-in represents a creative effort, switching the educational process from package to discovery." Marshall McLuhan Being in my current college institution for the past four years, there are many things discovered, and being in the BA in Music, a sort of limbo between the Conservatory and the College, allows me the chance to see certain things. I did consider going fully into the Con, yes, but that shattered quickly for several reasons. When I got a voice instructor, I realized all too quickly there were disagreements in how we thought about many things, but I had neither the confidence to voice such things nor the power to have any safety doing so, being a first-term student. This is on top of my other mental health problems going on at ...

  "Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously. As soon as information is acquired, it is very rapidly replaced by still newer information." Marshall McLuhan My goal for this video was to capture the kinds of issues I have interacting and interfacing with the world on a regular basis and the unease and discomfort that I've routinely felt trying to do so. So many restaurants and bars are stuffed to the brim with TV screens, being in a crowd feels suffocating, and I can't even look away without bringing a distraction of my own. When everything is too much at once and it doesn't stop, it gets difficult to sustain many things, even those that "should" be simple. As such, I layered the crowd footage (which was one shot for around 15 seconds that I took the legs and feet of) with different blend modes and opacities and scaling to create the illusion of more than there was, edited the colors of the video to feel unnatural and off and too bright ...

 I've never particularly understood how to introduce myself. Part of this, of course, is due to having continued struggles with knowing what is expected from me, with knowing what people want to hear about or would actually be interested in listening to. But another part is that, in the moment, and often in general, I can't figure out the words to describe who I am in a simple set of phrases. When I write characters, I have the liberty of taking as long as I need, the liberty of being able to describe a person through their actions. However, I am expected to use words for myself, and words that paint something cohesive at that. Likely, then, it is little wonder that I seek stories, that I have this need to create within me (even when such a thing is frustrated by my hand freezing up by having no ideas what I could begin to draw), and that when I write lyrics, it is from perspectives other than my own. After all, I do not know what in my life is notable enough to focus on, and I...