Experimenting with Music, Performer Excerpt 3

 Original Song: Cycles by DJVI
Arrangement: Neel Navare
AOI: 4 (electronic music)
Context: Global context




This is also made by the same composer, but the song has a different feel. It has a sad but also hopeful tone, as if you are trying to reach for more. Cycles' melody remains the same, but the supporting part on the bottom grows more intense as the song continues. Then, at the end, its melody changes, and the supporting part slows down. I could already hear dynamics in the original version, which was new for me, considering that most of EDM is loud (besides the beat drops), which therefore made it easier for me to know where to place them. However, the articulations such as staccato, marcato, slurs, and accents were up to me. I decided where to put these from a combination of listening to the song and intuition. This shows that a song can be open to interpretation in terms of where to play based on who is creating it. Since I play the cello, I tried to shape each phrase to make the song sound more like a story.

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