Asher Horseman

For my final project in my second immersion at Lab 51, The Sound of Music, I made my own song in Logic Pro X, (The production software we were taught about in the immersion) using the skills I had learned about in the software during the immersion. This process began with me just picking up on the basic skills in the software, to grasp enough knowledge to start playing along with things like different instruments, pre-recorded loops, drum beats, and more. I ended up scrapping my project several times for different reasons. Maybe it wasn’t interesting, or maybe I just didn’t like it. Coming up with catchy melodies to start off a song is harder than I anticipated, and I think this helped me connect more empathetically with musical artists that have been doing this kind of thing for decades. Once I did find that melody however, I found that the rest of the song wasn’t too difficult to think up. I did struggle on certain parts sometimes, but coming through in the end was a goal I strived for, and succeeded to reach in the end. I found that this is a lot harder thing to create than I first anticipated, but in the end, I’m proud of my first song I made, and hopefully there will be more inspirations for songwriting for me in the future.