CVR Music

Materials Needed:​

• Pen/Pencil

• Paper

• Access to musical selections (personal listening device or Internet)

• Computer

 

Instructions:

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STEP 1: Reflect on the music you listen to

• Write a few paragraphs on the music that is important in your life.

• Make sure to talk about the music that helps shape your identity.

• You might also want to discuss the music that you secretly love, but other people don’t know about.

• You might want to start listing favorite artists, songs, or genres.

• The important thing here is to focus on the music that relates to you and helps define you in some way.

• Why do you love it?

• What does that say about you?

• What do you hope it says about you?

• Write down ALL of your ideas!

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STEP 2: Dig through your music collection

• Using the thoughts and comments that you wrote in Step One and try to find examples of the music which best illustrates those ideas.

• Remember, you will be making an audio collage – so, be thinking about the sounds and feelings of your final product.

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STEP 3: Compile your music…and make final selections.

• Your task is to choose 4 or 5 songs which really speak to the ideas you are trying to convey.

• This step will be different for everybody and usually takes the most time.

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STEP 4: Thinking about your choices

• Once you have your collection of 4 or 5 songs, you have to determine what those songs represent to you and/or what you hope they say about you.

• Write a short piece about each song.

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Here are some suggestions to get you started:

1) When did you first hear this song?

2) What does this song represent to you?

3) Is there a specific part of the music that is most significant?

4) Is this a piece of music that you share with your friends or family?

5) Is this a “guilty pleasure” song?

(It might even be a song that you don’t want other people to know you like to listen to!).

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Step 5:  Script Writing and creating your Audio collage

• Start by writing a rough sketch of what you want to say before you start combining your songs.

• Then, start editing snippets of sound for your collage.

• During this step, you will need to start recording your narration and then you can start to assemble/edit everything.

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Step 6: Create something awesome!

• The goal of this project to have you think about the role of music in your life from a different perspective.

• Once you begin to understand how music helps shape your own identity, then you’ll be better equipped to understand music’s role in other people’s lives and other cultures.

• Remember...be honest and have fun!

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