Final EE Reflection, Viva Voce

Writing my EE on the chosen topic helped me to gain an in-depth knowledge in the area of multitrack recording and its process. I’ve learnt much more than I’ve expected, by analysing the examples and using plenty of research. I believe that the gained knowledge is going to be useful in my future studies and career, as I am planning to continue the music course at the university.
The research process went well for me, I’ve managed to find the needed data in short time. However, choosing the examples and analysing them has been quite challenging for me as it required fluency in music terminology and language.
Surprisingly for me, the use of multitrack recording turned up to be so common and global in 1960s. I’ve expected that 1960s wouldn’t be that technologically advanced, especially in the music industry. The investigation of that changed my opinion.
I believe that EE has been successful enough. I’ve covered an absolutely unfamiliar topic and managed to find the data and examples which perfectly linked to the topic and demonstrated the musical complexities of the multitrack recording.

Interim Reflective Conversation 2

After submitting my first EE draft, I’ve realised how challenging it is to find a pertinent source of information for my analysis. I’ve invested a lot of time in figuring out the demand on Beatles’ music and its relation multitrack recording. I wanted to find a significant numbers that will show the increase in popularity of songs and compare them to the previous pieces, where Beatles weren’t reliant on technological recording, in order to demonstrate the influence of multitrack recording and the change in their popularity as the musicians. “A Hard Day’s Write: The Story Behind Every Beatles Song” written by Steve Turner, is a very descriptive source, that I’ve used to graph the changes in their success with use of multitrack recording. My supervisor suggested me to use more terminology when describing the musical changes and elements, and asked to make precise analysis of the two pieces I’m going to compare, to use the score and analyse every significant part, in order to find out the different ways of recording and to continue developing it.

Initial Reflection, EE

My intention for EE was to write an essay based on the topic that I am passionate about and which will expand my knowledge. Music is my IB HL subject that I will write my EE on. Finding the topic was time-consuming and challenging. However, I’ve managed to come up with one decent topic: “How did the innovations in multitrack recording from the 1960’s to the present day influenced artists and their compositions”.
I am excited to write my EE. I feel like the choice of the topic is ardent. I can’t wait to plunge into the deep knowledge of multitrack recording and learn more about the process itself. I am eager to collect data from different sources, such as interviews and secondary resources. I think it’s going to be a memorable process, from which I will gain an important experience.

EE day

One thing I’ve learned from EE day is how a specific technology, such as MIDI, ADAT and other types of tape-based equipment was used in music production throughout the past century. Mainly, I gained a lot of knowledge about the multi-track recording process and how it was used as an invaluable reference for the professional and a comprehensive overview for a beginner musician.

As my EE topic is “How have the innovations in multi-track recording from the 1960’s to the present day  influenced artists and their compositions”, I have found and researched few pieces from the 1960s, 1980s and one from present day, which I am really proud of, due to the fact that  it is a big part of data that I am going to use in my EE writing. My pieces are Beatles- Please please me (1963), Beach boys- Pet sounds (1965) and Frankie goes to Hollywood- relax (1980). They perfectly fit my topic and help the development of the theme. Hense, these pieces will help me to conduct an investigation into my EE, and highlight a specific issue that I am focusing on in my essay.


In my further work, I will be investigating the scales that I found today and use the sources that I’ve established to link them to my topic and extract interesting and useful information. I think it is a very good start for my EE writing process, and it is going to be a less stressful procedure due to the amount of time I’ve invested in my findings and reading about the multi-track recording.

 

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