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Funding Application

Funding Proposal

For my proposal, I would like to work on making an album and releasing it to the public to the highest quality.My name is Jesse Mateus and my skills as an independent artist are piano playing, audience singing beat making and rapping. My aim is to create an album to not only give my fans something to enjoy but also to increase my fans too. for this to work I will need the funding for recording and mastering my work.
With my music, it would reach to people who understand hip hop and rap music. The reason I target theme for my audience is so that my audience know what I'm trying to say in a way that they know and enjoy. To go about getting the audiences is by promoting myself on social media through my friends and family and through artists that have a similar audience.

so far in my plan, I have finished 5 songs and working on 3 others and looking for someone that can master my tracks. For my album, I will first finish of the 3 songs I am working on then get a mastering expert to finish mixing and editing it. while that is happening I will book venues to promote my work by performing songs I've made in the past and 2 songs from the album so my audience gets a little taster of whats going to be in the album. My past experience was when I put on a gig at a venue performing some of my songs I made to get the audience I have today. I promoted myself on social media with help of my family and friends.

In regards to the funding, I have made an analysis on how much this plan would cost to complete. for the mastering, it would cost no more than £300 or less. for booking a venue for the gig would be £200 or more. The things that might effect my plan is if the mastering expert takes long to finish it or doesn't work on it at all. another problem is if I don't finish the tracks in time for them to get mastered. I am expecting to get the funding after I finish the songs for my album that why I don't worry about the cost for the venue and mastering expert.

while in the middle of making my plan, I will be keeping a journal of things that has gone well or thing that hasn't and had to be scraped or edited. At the end of my plan, I am hoping that it will be a success and help me to create more albums that help to bring even more audience and also help me to think of different ways I can go with my music.

My four studio demo

For this track, I used a sample for the main part of the beat and worked around it added things in. At the start of the track, I bounced the first 8 bars the used touch mode to record the low pass filter and the added a little bit of distortion to it to give it a gritty sound.



For this song, I wrote the chords and use a summing stack full of string giving the track a brighter sounding to it a bit. for the verse and chorus. I use two different drum pattern. for the verse. I used a for slower and less energetic drum pattern and as for the chorus, more energy in for it.

This track was an experiment with the ES2 synth and making 808 this does not have the "boomy-ness" 808's is meant to have but, it served as a great source of bass. the melody was inspired by a song called Rambo by Bryson Tiller. on most of the tracks in the beat, I used the sample delay so they will bounce back and forth from left to right. I used a lost of reverse tracks after bouncing tracks for the build ups.



Nothing much inspired me to make this beat it just came together and I was just throwing in ideas that might work together. There's a bounced track with low pass filter played with touch mode.

Abstracts and Aappendices

Abstracts:
The topic I going to touch on is to do with gospel music and how it help to build the community with the issues around the community in the 1970s, most of the artists that song gospel song we're black African American and at that time slavery was at work in various states throughout the country which I will be basing my research on.


Appendices

http://www.christianpost.com/news/racism-sin-church-must-confront-for-gospel-move-forward-bishop-claude-alexander-says-171077/

Ethnography on hip hop

This is an ethnography on hip hop and the seven parts that make up hip hop.

Sound:

In Hip Hop the sound that makes it up are drums(sampled), bass and lyrics. In hip-hop, some of the musical element are sampled from other songs. Mostly from jazz and/or funk songs. An example of this is Nas N.Y. State of mind and Kool and the gang N.T.

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In the Nas track, he uses the drum part of the Kool and the gang song where all the other instruments of the songs we' silent and the only thing playing were the drums. In the Kool & the gang song, the drums are for sure complex and rhythmical. the sounding of the drums  quite strong and hard which keeps it rhythmical.

visual:

With Hip Hop, some have a unique style to them or similar depending on the area the was brought up but most are street clothes.

most hip hop artists either where a hoodie something to cover their head like a cap(some) they also have chains around their with jeans and trainers. For Hip Hop artists this is their sense of  own personality. a way to pick them out from others and truly stand out to others.

Technology:

Equipment used in Hip Hop are mostly turntables which were used to sample parts of a song and loop that part mostly drums breaks. This shapes the sound by taking one element from one type of music and changing it to a totally different music used for the purpose of Hip Hop.

  

Mediatic:

Hip Hop was mostly was heard live on the street by a DJ with his turntables. Now, it can be heard live events gigs some with a DJ still but some also just have a band with them while they perform. Hip Hop is mostly heard online recorded by the artists. Also, a website for Hip Hop only where all hip hop genre related is showed on there. this is the website called world star hip hop.

Temporal:

One Hip Hop isn't as long as a 1-hour symphony it's least the 3 to 6 minutes long. A whole album is 40 minutes long with lots os small 3-6 minutes long song. the reason for is the is would probably be too much listen to the same song for an hour.

Corporeal:

Hip Hop contagious to whoever sits and listens to it. Frist, the grove with start at your feet making tap them to the grove. after that, the beat kicks in and it makes its way to your head, next minute you're nodding your head to it. as the song goes on and you hear the lyrics of the chorus a few time you'll start singing along to it and even dance to it.

Discursive:

Hip Hop main topic is in society and how they have been treat by the society around their area. most artists talk about the things around them that need change. it can also be used as a political way of getting their point across making it a freedom of expression.

studio work

J cole 2014 Forest Hill Drive is his latest album he's released. It an album with no features from any artist hence making him the first to get platinum without a feature. In this album, he talks about his time growing up with his family, issues he had, and problems he solved. My favorite song on the album would be the outro note to self. Equally, I like all the song on this album but the reason for this is because of its a big change from how he usually makes his music in term of lyrics, With these, he doesn't rap at all which he is mainly known for. Instead, he sings all the ways through until the part he starts giving out shout outs. also with the chords, his voice goes well with it.

This album Born Sinner was a little later the other one which was released in 2013. This album was more of a self-reflection toward himself. He talked about how he feels,how he stills feels and what he could of then better. In this song, my favorite song would have to be Born Sinner, Reason for this his because of how he made the beat match the mood of the lyrics. He made it sound like a gospel church song with the choir for the chorus. He talks mostly about forgiveness and how being a born sinner means your not perfect. 

j Cole live performance

This performance that  j cole did at new york city also interests me no matter how make I watch it. not only because of the song or the band behind play amazing chords while he rap but also because how he interacts with the audience and gets the to respond in a that make them feel as if the part of the performance as well. one way of him achieving this is him cut one famous part of the verse and letting the audience sing it instead. Another thing J Cole does is move around a lot and show  gestures while performing. This shows how confidence he was that night he was performing. All of these feature are very important when performing to me because I like getting people involved in whaI i do. I would love to some day embed that in my performance and to also show more confidence too.