On this page, you can find the Culminating Experience (CE) Projects for all graduate students from the Berklee College of Music master’s program Contemporary Performance (Production Concentration) (CPPD) from 2015 – present. Click on any title for more information and access to the full paper and other deliverables (if available).
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“JUZIKAL” The Color of My Music
Djudju Hartono
2014My CE is a musical exploration of the phenomena of colors between music and art. As painters find inspiration in music, I have similarly found inspiration in my uncle Sesin Jong’s paintings for my compositions. Although Jong’s colors are crafted by his brush and mine through notes on a piano, they both serve one fundamental purpose; to unbridled emotional expression. Jong’s landscape “Why Not?” captures an emotion like this, which I expressed in my accompanying composition “Sweet Moment”. Whilst Jong used vivid contrasting colors deeply rooted in a rich Chinese heritage, I composed a piece rich with melody and harmonic textures to transport the viewer into this realm of colors and poetic imagination. The concept of my project is to explore creative expression as an emotion, with music and color, where the participants can interact with their movements. In our daily life, expression is a way to regulate and convey emotions. There have also been significant studies that provide scientific validity for the role of music in balancing the functions of our mind.
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My Musical Identity
Alexey León Reyes
2014The concept of my project is to complete my previous work and to make musical illustrations of it. It contains a general theoretic work with an overview of the main styles of Afro-Cuban music. As a part of this project during the year I composed, 5 original tunes and arranged 3 Cuban traditional songs, performed and recorded them.
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Roots of Artistic Identity: Themes of Traditional Polish Dances in Modern Improvised Music
Piotr Orzechowski
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"Why Not Clarinet"
Miguel Ruíz Santos
2014The main goal of this project is to promote the spreading and recovery of clarinet in the current music scene, and more specifically, in Modern music and Jazz style.
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From Singer to Songwriter: An Artist's Path in Brazilian Music
Luiza Sales Rangel
2014What should a brazilian female singer and songwriter do to distinguish herself from the many other ones begin to release their albums now? What elements and tools should this composer and performer have in her music to be noticed? In what ways the formal training in a music college can improve the final result of this artistic work? In this culminating experience, those questions will be answered during the process of composing, arranging and recording five original songs, in brazilian styles. By understanding the profile of the brazilian female singer-songwriters, researching on their work and improving musical skills in performance, composition, improvisation and arranging, the result is becoming a full time singer and songwriter that is able to control all the phases in the production of an album: from pre-production (composing and arranging), to production (recording) and post-production (editing, mixing, mastering, releasing, publishing and performing).
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Several Miles to Ramanujam: A Study in the Application of Indian Rhymic Concepts for Western Musicians
M.T. Aditya Srinivasan
2014To this day Indian classical music remains a largely unwritten form of music, where true learning can only take place by traveling to India and dedicating many years to rigorous practice of the art. There are however, many musicians from of other musical forms who seek to understand various aspects of Indian classical music to incorporate into their own music, who are unable to undergo such dedicated learning of the art. This project aims to bridge that gap.
