Unit 3 | Assignment 1 Reflection
Exploring non-traditional voices altered my perspective on how we interact with sound. I started to consider my relationship with music as just that, a relationship. This relationship is unique, and provides different emotions and senses of nostalgia for different listeners. I started to overanalyze certain albums that resonate with me or that give me butterfly feelings to talk about and started dissecting why, and recognizing the different sounds that boost my serotonin. At first, this assignment intimidated me extremely, so I procrastinated as long as I could until the idea hit me when I was looking at my record player hidden away in my closet and I decided to take it out and listen to my favorite album, "Malibu" by Anderson .Paak.
In addition to a new perspective of my relationship with sound, I really appreciate how this assignment made me go out of my comfort zone in terms of writing. I really enjoyed the fact that we contrasted two forms of writing. I love to write, so any chance I get to write an essay over a test actually excites me whereas it usually annoys people. This was fun because I feel like both of my writing pieces (the blog post and newspaper article) get the same message across but are styled and formatted completely different and I enjoyed realizing that I am capable of writing for multiple types of platforms. Writing the newspaper article was significantly more challenging for me. The blog post took me all of 5 minutes while the article took me well over an hour just because I felt like I had to be more specific with writing about specific sounds in the songs and it was challenging for me to overanalyze music this way. I found myself wanting to just say I like it because it's good and makes me dance, but that didn't seem interesting enough for a reader who would stumble upon this article on accident while flipping through a newspaper rather than someone who is searching for blog posts about music.
Although this assignment thoroughly frustrated and confused me for a few days, I ended up really proud of the work I created and the fact that I successfully went out of my comfort zone.