Reflection of Contemporary Composition

The Contemporary Composition class opened my mind to how we are all composing in our everyday life. I think it is very valuable that we now have studied about each subject and how it relates to the idea of composing and creating. It has also opened my mind to the fact that not only is this school about composing and making art, but there are others out there that do this as their career too. This class has also opened resources and concepts that I had never thought of, such as in the Sound unit where we talked about the McKurky Effect and the "channel surf" in the Film unit. I found this class to be very inspiring, between hearing from all of the guest speakers, writing our personal thoughts in our journals, and then how we shared and commented on other people's thoughts in the group discussions. Each and every artist has a different idea of what art is and how we compose and what the reason behind our composition is- sometimes it is for personal reasons, sometimes it is for professional reasons. I found this class to have a positive effect on my artist life and how I see art in today's world as well as how I think about art and how it is made. I found it very interesting to compose in other fields because that meant that I could learn about the other fields and what people in that profession do for a living. It was fascinating to hear about every speaker's way of communicating their art to other students who don't know that person's art. I also very much enjoyed the fact that we were in groups with students from every school and we got to see how they (being in film or dance or whatever) saw the speaker or assignment and they related that back to their own major. I believe that when the first-generation of multimedia and the second-generation of multimedia were remixed we would get what we have composed in Contemporary Composition class. It would be crazy channel surfs and remixes galore. I very much enjoyed this class and I do believe that every freshman needs to take it to broaden their view of art and culture.