Amatxo Maitia

Amatxo Maitia

Abstract

For my last project at this master, I decided to pay tribute to my mother’s family–her parents, her brother and, of course, her – and compose a piece that would honor their memory based on some old video recordings of them. When thinking about the people you hold dearest to your heart, memory is a double-edged sword, for it can bring both joy and sorrow. Therefore, I wanted to try and navigate all those feelings in this piece; trying to not only feel nostalgic for the past but also cherish it and celebrate the people they were and the lives they lived. In order to do this project, I wanted to prepare myself as much as possible and write something that would match the period the videos were based on. Therefore, I did a lot of research for references and music scores of music from that time. Thanks to this final project, as I had to work on it during most of the academic year, I learned a lot about my composing tools – both academic and digital techniques – and the importance of having a solid pre-production stage before writing music.

Publication Date

7-1-2025

Campus

Valencia (Spain) Campus

Amatxo Maitia

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