{"id":1104,"date":"2025-09-26T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:12:50","slug":"project-1-justin-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/project-1-justin-walton\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 1 &#8211; Justin Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"NMD200 Project 1 - Justin Walton\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ipnVzHKEtO4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I only changed 1 thing from my project prep: I used sounds I found online instead of sounds recorded by me to accompany the background music. This is because none of the recordings I took on my phone captured the sounds I had in mind. Instead, I found a royalty-free video on YouTube with river and bird noises. I ended up deciding to use this for the visuals and the sounds for the soundscape (cited below). I also put the audio and video together in DaVinci Resolve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I made the background music using a piano VST in FL studio. The preset I used had a synth-choir sounding effect that I thought matched the theme of the soundscape; you can hear it after each note is played. I also made a separate track for tempo automation, allowing me to make dynamic changes to the tempo. The 2 main examples of this in the composition are right after the key change and at the crescendo around 2 minutes into the song, where I tried to emulate realistic piano runs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For this project, I wanted to create something that I would listen to on my own. When I am doing homework or something I need to focus on, I like to listen to light instrumental music with busy melodies to keep my mind stimulated. I tried to incorporate that in the background music while leaving room for the other relaxing sounds of nature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KRrQh-8O78M&amp;list=PLf-kQDdCmb1fM7l573YIK60Bg2VIrvb9F&amp;index=6\">Source of Visuals &amp; Nature Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Project 1 intertwines a river soundscape with original background piano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14","category-project-1","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/river.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}