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This is the complete product. The last part was made shorter

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This is when we quite finished the whole product as we finished adding the beats into the last part and the whole video is about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. However, there are some parts that are not really connected to each other.

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We have added the last part into the whole music to finish up. We tried to add in another song which is the same genre as the first song to change the color of the whole piece. We are working on the last part by adding beats into it. We also added a lot of beats in the previous part which is becoming quite complicated right now

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Criterion D (reflection on Rika's product)

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Criterion D (reflection on Rika's product)

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Rika's product was the fusion between classical EDM and traditional Japanese music. Instead of adding more beats to the traditional music to make it become EDM, they tried to mix up 2 different kinds of instruments. Alice used the piano as a piece of classical music and Rika used the guitar as a piece of EDM music. Throughout the song, they had done really well in using 2 different instruments to create one song, as the instruments went along together. There were some parts that the guitar changed the pitch as well as the sound to make the song more creative. They also did really well in keeping the melody for the song. However, I feel that there are still things that they need to improve more on their product. They were trying to mix the traditional music with EDM but I don't think that the song contains the features of EDM. The sounds of the guitar kept changing but it actually didn't bring more color or characteristics to the song. Therefore, I think that they should think about the features of EDM and try to show those features throughout the song that they are fusing (ex: adding more beats,...)

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Our song was a fusion between Vietnamese traditional music and EDM. I think that I did a good job in bringing the features of those 2 different genres into 1 song (ex: adding more beats but still keep the melody). Moreover, we were quite creative to try to add the connections to different parts of the song to make them more connected to each other. It was quite a good idea because it partly helps make the traditional song to become more suitable with an EDM. Throughout the song, different beats and different synths were added together. There is also no problem with the volume so far because the volume is not too loud that it could overwhelm the whole melody. However, there were still some parts that the beats don't really fit the melody of the song as it was going too fast while the song was slower, the beats of the 2 songs didn't go along well with each other. Therefore, I think that the thing we have to improve is try to add the beats in but also still need to consider whether the beats fit the traditional song or not. Furthermore, throughout the song, because we had added too many different beats and too many kinds of synths so it hears quite complicated, as the audience cannot catch up with the real melody. For this part, we will need to improve on making the chorus of the song by repeating some parts so that it would be heard more comfortable.

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The piece of music now was just about 1 minute and a half. Therefore, to make the song lasts in 2 minutes, we added another part as another song but the same genre. So far we will add more beats for this part of the song

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As each person is having their own capabilities, each nation is having their own features, each tribe is having their own traditions, included traditional music (Indian traditional music, Chinese traditional music, Vietnamese traditional music). The developed world doesn't require a development in tradition and it also doesn't require tradition keeping but renewing ourselves is a thing that everyone is doing. Renewing, but don't lose the real characteristics is the basic thing we all have to remember. As a group to fuse different genres of music together, we are trying to renew the traditional music of Vietnam. "Cai luong" had been an ancient piece of music which used to be important in the ancient time to help them have more excitement in their work because in the feudal system in Vietnam, people were being treated unfairly based on the different classes. Therefore, each sentence, each word in the songs contain stories about how people were treated, their experiences in working (such as farming,...) and sometimes the songs could be about the love stories between a man and a woman. Furthermore, it can also be about wars (because Vietnam is one of the countries having most wars in Asia). Society now is more equal, people rarely have to be outside under the sunshine to work in the file. However, those are cultures that we should still save as ancient stories in order to tell the next generations about how their ancestors had been fighting for wars and bringing victory for their country

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This is the disco music we were about to mix with

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This Rag Pahadi music actually shows clearly and deeply how the Indians live normally because it is a kind of relieved, peaceful and modest piece of music. It reflects on the lives of Indian people which is simple and calm.

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This is the video of the last day

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The second video

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This is the video of what it sounded like

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This is a record of what it sounded like

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This is what we had done so far for the last Monday. Besides adding the main beats, we also added some more beats for diversity. When Mr Graham came and he listened to what we got, he said that it was okay and we should control the volumes. We should also put some more strong beats in. Therefore, I think that after finishing up all the thing, we will then control the volumes so that some beats may not be bigger than the melody of the original song. We should also add some more different and strong beats to make the fusion more perfect. We are also thinking of the end of the song by using a part with original Vietnamese instruments in it to end up slowly

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This is the next part that we had done so far. We had changed all the beats because the old beats were not fit for the song.

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So far as time went by, we changed the beats for the first part. The first used beats were not strong enough and when we changed to this beat, it fit a lot and it made the part looks sound better. Additionally, during the second part of the song, we deleted one part of it because we had just figured out that that part was not really relevant and it was also quite hard to choose the beats to suit it. Therefore, we deleted it and we thought that we may put something in the middle to connect those 2 parts together.

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We have changed the beats at the beginning part of the next day. It was better because the beat chose was more suitable for the beginning part. We decided to use 1 beat and then change the other beat. for the first part.

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This is the last part of the product that we have done so far. We haven't finished it yet but we think that it is going quite well. Allison suggested an idea that we can repeat the first part of the song and save it as the last part of the song because since then, we can make a chorus for the song which will help the listeners prevent from being bored while listening to the song. It was a good idea so we decided to do that. Furthermore, we also decided the idea for the last and finishing up part might be an original song with instruments and ending up slowly.

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This is the middle part of our product since our last decision had made. We put the dance club beats into almost of the song but we didn't think it fit the beats of the song. The original Vietnamese songs sometimes have some high parts and low parts and it's kind of hard to fuse. Instead of fusing that part, we have decided to keep that part originally as it was so maybe we will delete some of the beats to make sure that after fusing the whole song, it still keeps its original characteristics. Also, between the second part and the last part of the song, we decided to add a little bit more sounds of an instrument as a part to connect those 2 parts together fluently due to the last note that the singer sang . However, it did not workout well because the beat was a little too fast comparing to the whole song

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I think this is the last change we've made. After getting through everything, we decided not to fuse with the traditional Indian music anymore because the beats are hard to follow. Therefore, our last decision was to fuse the traditional Vietnamese music with (maybe) strong beats as EDM. The first track was the song that we found with instruments and no lyrics to be an original version. The second song was the song with a lyric but no background music. Therefore, we can create some beats if there are no background music and the beats will be easier to follow in some cases. We are trying hard for this last decision and we hope it will work out well. The beginning of track was mixed with the club dance beat. However, it did not work out well because the dance beats were not strong enough and it also did not fit the beat of the original with lyric song so I think we should change the beats so far

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What we presented in class (Monday, 21/11) 

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What we presented in class (Monday, 21/11) 

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We have completed a part of the product but not much. We have just put the beginning part (which is the original indian music) into it. We are trying to fuse Indian traditional music with EDM and we are put "Faded" and Carnatic into for it

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Our first idea was to combine the Indian traditional music with the disco genre because we thought that mixing traditional music and EDM would be so familiar to everyone. Therefore, we wanted to start to think of a new kind of fusion music and we decided to mix the Indian music with disco. We started to do a research and we finally found the Rag Pahadi - a kind of Hindustani music - as a traditional music to mix with the disco music of Bee Gees.

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Today we finally have some basic ideas for what we are doing next. We will use the Rag Pahadi (which is a kind of Hindustani music) for the introduction. After that, we will use Carnatic music to fuse with disco music. At first, we planned to use Rag Pahadi for the whole song (including fusing with the disco. Since then, Mr Graham told us to choose a song with beats so that it will be easier to mix with disco so we decided to change the song. However, while getting through the whole process, we had just figured out that the Rag Pahadi basically doesn't have a clear beat to be able to fuse with disco which is a genre of music needs quite strong beats. Therefore, we thought that it will be quite a challenge for us to mix that kind of traditional music with disco. Since then, we decided to change our ideas. So far we would change to fuse between EDM and a piece of Carnatic music. As long as getting through the whole process of researching different kinds of music, we found that Carnatic music is also a traditional music of India but it has some clear beats. Thus, we started to fuse 2 kinds of music together to see how it works.

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During this day, we haven't got any ideas so far. We just think of mixing a kind of an Indian traditional music and a strong beat genre. We start to look up for different genres of music: pop, rock, disco,...

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We had researched about Indian music, which included Traditional music and Folk music. There are 2 kinds of traditional music: Hindustani and Carnatic. We think that the presentation is quite useful for our project because the Indian music is quite a strange and new to generations like us.