Listening to African Pygmy Music is extremely fun, but if you add something with it, it’ll be wayyyyyy better. Trust me. That said, I added some New Orleans traditional jazz music. This music was created back when Code Noir was in effect/place. Not only that, but a lot of people spoke certain creoles.

Lastly, I planned (emphasis on planned) on adding some mariachi music, but as of typing this up all of my music got deleted for some reason. I will try to restore it. But as I was saying, I was going to add some mariachi music. I was going to add the guitarron to my music.

The aliens may be behind this mysterious incident. But I shall retaliate soon but this time, their life will be on the line. They better start counting their days as anyone who interferes with my work will face the consequences Caden Asian Style. Once I defeat them, we will show them that we are the TRUE DOMINANT SPECIES.  

The next stop went to the Taj Mahal. I heard an Indian music band and it was fantastic. I was socked. I had to use their music in my song to save time itself.  It’s called raga and the sitar a plucking of strings in my music. The plucking of the tambura was also something special. I love how it sounds with the sitar. 

My third stop was the Balkans.  I didn’t even know where I was until I looked at a map and then I listened to some funky brass music.  This music evolved from a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire and I knew because of their fighting spirit, the music, especially instrumental music, had what it takes to save time itself. 

In my travels, I went to many different places and time periods on Earth. I first went to Medieval Germany where I learned of plainchant which is a choir singing without any music, thus making the music monophonic and very serious. I then went to the beautiful Taj Mahal in the 1600s where I learned about the better version of the guitar, the sitar which sounds very good and accompanied by the tambura, made me want to party. I then proceeded to Danbury, Continentuct in 1906 where I encountered a very weird style of music that was aleatoric and combined many different instrument types like brass and woodwinds. From there, I went to Los Angeles in 2000, where I learned film music that included western instruments as well as traditional Chinese instruments like the erhu. These two combined, made a great soundtrack for a movie. I then went to Guca, Serbia in 2011 where I partied to instrumental music that used a helicon and other brass instruments. The next place I went to was Mexico City in 1934, where I learned about mariachi music and a type of mariachi called, ranchera that was developed during the Mexican Revolution. From there, I went to the Ituri rainforest in 500 BCE where I encountered a very distinct type of music called polyphonic that was cermeoninal music for the local people. Then I finally came to Congo Square, New Orleans in 19320 where I learned of traditional jazz music and how it was created by Creoles who were allowed to make their own music as a result of the Code Noir made by their French rulers.

I created a story with all these music styles in audio. I also added a random clip of me singing “Oh Come All Ye Faithful” and the introduction to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” in order to spice things and try to make things a bit funny as space demons don’t have a sense of humor and will self destruct if they hear it, because they don’t understand the beauty of memes and funny things in general. That’s how big of impact this melody will have. I also added a few fireworks in there just to ensure the space demons will inherently never come back again, because its too much greatness for their nonexistent brains to handle. That’s how I get revenge for the death of the ancient Orb of Glon.

For this sound painting I focused on 3 types of music that we learned over the course of these months. I used Indian style raga, Balkan music, and finally Jazz. I used these because they were my favorite genres of music. 

For the Indian Style Raga I modified the mp3 to isolate the melody and I used that for my song. I used it because I really liked the sound of the Sitar and I felt like there was no other string instrument that could replicate that type of impact the sitar makes. 

For the balkan music I isolated the helicon and drum set from it because I felt like I wanted to ensure that there was a foundation for this sound painting and usually brass or percussion fill that niche. 

Finally I used jazz because I wanted to add syncopation to the music and because I wanted to add a new melody to start the song. The melody includes the trumpet and I wanted to include it because I felt like I needed a brass melody for this project. 

Our first stop was the Taj Mahal. The era was 1600s, during the Moghul rule. We traveled across the nation, beautiful instruments like the sitar, and the tambura. The raga was very in sync, and we heard the exceeding skills with these talented musicians. We then secretly went inside the Taj Mahal, like spies stealing the jewelry, and then stole the secret map to our next stop.

We then traveled to our next stop, which was Colombia, 1991. It was very clear because we heard the tambors, and the cantadoras. The voices of the cantadora’s were really good, and had a nice style, Cumbia, too. We walked to our next map to see where we were going, but after searching for 10 minutes, no one found it. Until a gate opened, leading to space, and our teacher, Mr. Stapp was yelling, “Run! Run children!!” It was the space aliens… It was happening all too fast, and some students were so in shock they even fainted. Even I was just standing there, hands shaking, legs stiff. Mr. Stapp used his super music voice, sang his lungs out, and went past his capacity. His voice was impacting the aliens, but they screeched, even breaking down Mr. Stapp’s exploits, but then the aliens leave. The aliens somehow dropped one of the maps, and we picked it up, just to find out our next and final location. 

The last and final stop was New Orleans, 1920, specifically at Congo Square. We knew exactly where because of the creoles. Most of the class even heard spirituals. We were looking for clues to see whether this was the final upbeat to our missions, and at last, it was. The peacefulness here was just too perfect. The nice music playing, the syncopation playing, everything about this was peaceful. Too peaceful… At last, we found our key piece, we headed home, to make our finalizations. 

Everyone was told to make a piece to kill the music space aliens.

In my music, I demonstrated how the sounds of each music piece would sound, abstractly, and confusedly. The aliens have intense hearing, according to Mr. Stapp’s studies, and if we combine it all, it’ll sound weird and crazy to us, but overall, it will be beautiful to them, and show them our ways of music. It will make them back off. There are beats to add with the musicians in play. Also, cat noises hurt the minds of space aliens, so we added that as well, so then they have a 0% likelihood to come back and mess with Earth ever again. Our home is now safe, thanks to the school, HPCMS. 😎

My first stop was the Balkan music. This music was adequately fun to listen to. The helicon is a bright part to this instrumental music. It feels like the music gets faster with the compound time. The Romani are good at making music because they bring it together with their nice and cheerful sounds so I had to include this in my music.

My next stop is Mariachi music. Overall, this song was harmony. This song brought together my music really well because of the diverse and traditional sounds. It is a very dominant type of music which is why I included it to overwhelm the space demons. 

Another stop is the Cumbia music. Cumbia music is another very interesting style of music that brings out a lot of culture. The Tambor and Cantadora are amazing pieces of Cumbia music. This music will mess with the demons' brains and is another step closer to defeating them.

The final stop is medieval music. This old time music is the final key to defeating the evil space demons. The sound is so classy yet so powerful, the song is based on a religion that calls God. This was the final step. 

All of these together represent my powerful music which would manipulate the demons hearts into exploding.

My first stop was at Danbury, Connecticut around 1906. There I heard how Charles Ives created a new style of music which was Experimental music. When I heard the Unanswered Question by Charles, I noticed how it was atonal and aleatoric. I could hear how the woodwinds, the brass and the strings were all out of sync but they still managed to create an interesting type of melody. I realized that I could use these instruments that were a part of this style to create my final piece of music.

My next stop was in Los Angeles around 2000. We arrived at Tan Dun’s music home studio where we got to listen to the different types of film music he makes. We got to learn about the chinese traditional music which includes the erhu. When we were listening to "Farewell" from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Tan Dun I noticed how the western instrument which was the cello and the erhu blended in together and created a beautiful melody. I also noticed how he used glissando in his notes in order to make the music which I found very inspiring. When we finished listening to the song I was really amazed by the rhythm of the music and the melody that I knew I needed to use in my own creation.

My third stop was at Bogota, Columbia around 1991 where I heard the cumbia style of music for the first time. When we first arrived we were standing at the recording session of Toto. When I heard her sing El Pescador, it was a very inspiring piece of music for me. I could hear the tambor being played while being in perfect harmony with the cantadora. That's how I realized that I wanted to include the tambor in my music. 

My fourth stop was at Guca, Serbia (Balkans). When we arrived it was sometime around 2011 in a Serbian town. There were hundreds of thousands of fans waiting for the two bands to battle it out to see who would win the golden trumpet. When they started playing their instrumental music, I could hear the helicon and the trumpet and all the other instruments blend in together to create the perfect piece of melody. I realized that I had to have that in my music in order to get the rhythm I want.

My last stop was in Mexico City around 1934. There I heard Linda Ronstadt and Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan performing La Charreada. The style of music in which they were playing was mariachi. I noticed how they were only playing string instruments such as the guitarron and the vihuela. The music itself was so unique and beautiful that I had to put it in my piece in order to fully complete it. 

In my music I demonstrated all of these styles and put them together in an abstract and unique way. I added my own original pieces of music for each style and a few beats and loops to create a mix up of different sounds to catch the aliens off guard. I even added different sound effects to capture the alien’s attention and make them focus on my music. When the space demons hear and react to my unique piece of music, they will be so amazed that the light that shined from my music will blow them away. I can ensure you that they will stand no chance against us and will all be defeated because of my great art of music. 

     First, Aman traveled to Congo square of the year 1920. There he learned about Spirituals and about Code Noir.  This was a huge part of slavery as music helped Africans cope with the conditions and injustice they were provided and also gave them hope. Aman took pieces of jazz music and implemented them into his piece. 

 Secondly, Aman traveled to Mexico City the year of 1934. There Aman increased his knowledge of Mariachi. He learned about waltz as well, a song that is mainly felt in 3. This impacted his knowledge of music, and he implemented these styles in his music as well. 

     Lastly, Aman traveled to Los Angeles in the year 2000. There he learned about glissandos and traditional music. In his film music piece Aman used glissando’s to display what he learned and make the music as unique as he could to stop the aliens from destroying the earth. 

           Aman informed Mr. Stapp about the Alien’s plotting.  He exceeded Mr. Stapp’s expectations and it was set that after Mr. Stapp’s retirement it would be Aman to step up to the plate. Mr. Stapp decided from then on that when and if he retires Aman could be the next hero in disguise as well as lead their time travel music class as a day job. It was set, the Aliens would attack in a few days, and Aman was ready to play this music to change their minds. There were a variety of instruments, and the best part, the music made no sense. Music is one of the only things that sound good without making sense. This unique sense of style would deter the Aliens from destroying a planet full of lush potential of music. Aman’s encouragement of this piece was to make it sound as unique as some other music he experienced. Aman at this time was in eighth grade and was upset he would have to leave the school, which housed one of the best music teachers ever. However, Aman knew he would see him again, as music bounded them by a common interest. Before he left, he wanted to prove himself to Mr.. Stapp wanted to show him, that he paid attention to what Mr. Stapp taught him as his disciple.  The time came when the Aliens attacked. Aman blasted this music from every speaker and radio in the world. However, Aman’s intention was potentially to change the Alien’s mind with peace through music. This is exactly how it played out. Due to the amazing inspirations and the beauty of music, the Aliens fell in love and wanted to save this planet to continue their knowledge of music. The Aliens retreated and everyone cheered for Aman. This led Mr. Stapp to be sure about his decision and decided Aman would receive leadership to the music class and when he (Mr. Stapp) retires, also become the music Hero. 

One of the stops was New Orleans. I learned that they were played by Creoles and due to Code Noir which was a law, they allowed Creoles to make music where jazz is born.

Another stop is Mexico but not just any Mexico but it’s in the 1930s. I learned how people in the revolution played Ranchera which then became what it is now which’s Mariachi music.

Another stop is Serbia. I learned how Balkan is instrumental music and how it’s mostly played by Roma people.

These pieces of music influenced my composition because they were used to show the pieces of music I learned. Furthermore these pieces of music combined together made a powerful wave of sound which the impact then destroyed the space demons. 

The first style represented with orchestration is Traditional Chinese music. For that, I used a flute for the melody, and cello for the bass. It was played in style B, which is different from the notes of the main melody.

The second style I used was Mariachi music. I used a different type of trumpet for this section, and changed the notes to be more jumpy, which added the component for section C. I also added an underlying guitarron to accompany the melody, and a double cello for the bass notes.

The third orchestration I created was in the style of African Pygmy music. I created a call-and-answer type style by using two voice instruments which preceded one another. I used congas to more promote the call-and-answer type theme. This was played with section B notes.

The final style that I used was medieval music, which was a fairly simple orchestration, and played with section C notes. I just used violin for the melody and again, cello for the bass notes.

At the end of the song, I created a final melody that involves the orchestrations from all the other styles to create a jumble of music. At the VERY end of the song, I put in just the chords, which faded out slowly.

This piece of music was created for one sole reason, to fight back against the space demons. They wanted to control the entire universe, and snuff out creativity forever, as they thought it was “too dangerous to be kept around”. At the battle of Vorpalandia, this song was played, and it fired the neurons of every space demon, as their brains didn’t have the capacity to process such creativity and diversity. The universe lived happily ever after, the end.

As you hear the first couple of measures in the music, it introduces all of the music but it also creates a nice beat that scares away the space demons. Certain components of the music are meant to scare the space demons away, such as the evil laugh at the end and the scream. However, the main parts of the music are meant to be smooth parts.

The first part where the music comes into play is at measures 7-10. You hear a combination of both the New Orleans Traditional Jazz and the Colombian music. This is demonstrated through our time travel expedition. The New Orleans Traditional Jazz is a Syncopation while the Colombian music is Mariachi music. Despite the fact that this part may not scare the space demons, it’s impact is still enough to take them down.

Right after that, you hear the main part which includes almost all of the parts I have included except the Colombian and New Orleans Traditional Jazz. However, it contains the Balkan music. You can barely hear it, but it is still there. The Balkan music is instrumental music, which means it has no singing, like all of the other parts. It contains compound time, although only the tuba part is included.

The music ends with an evil laugh and a man screaming, which scares the space demons away. Overall, the music sounds very good when put together because it has its own identity. This music is sufficient to scare the space demons away while also providing pleasure to your ears. The space demons are officially gone.

The first style I used was the Indian Classical music. This style usually includes a tabla, tambura, and sitar, so this style of music is calm, yet somewhat upbeat. I only included the sitar to emphasize the calmness because this instrument gave a feeling like one person is standing alone in front of a river during the sunset. It made me feel relaxed, yet uneasy because that one person was all alone.

The second style I used was the African Pygmy music. This style is usually an ostinato, so in my music as well, the same rhythm was repeated. The rhythm in this style is called a hockett rhythm where the same rhythm is shared among different  voices, and this rhythm can also include polyphonic music to include more variety. This style reminds me of nature especially because this music can be played with anything and anywhere, so even if somebody was abandoned on an island alone, they would be able to make this kind of music with the resources around them. This music can be played even if you’re alone as long as you have resources around you so that you don’t have to feel alone. It’s sad that somebody’s alone, but it’s better to make them feel less alone.

The last style I used was the New Orleans Traditional Jazz music. This style is usually played by creoles, so there's a variety of people playing the same music as a whole. It has syncopation so the music sounds