Starving Artist Composition Concept

This is a dynamic and rhythmic electronic music. I incorporated some elements of time and clock sound into the composition and music arrangement. It greatly reflects the choreographer's idea of expressing the dancers' eager and intense desire to show their body actions and dances  as “starving artists” on stage through this piece. So there are ticking sounds of a clock appears first at the beginning of the score. Then the various parts of the drum set begin to join into the prelude part, and the beats gradually becomes tight and forms the rhythm of the whole piece. The 45-second long prelude builds up the tension for the main part as the actors gradually increase their movements.

With the chords played by the synthesizer arise, the music enters the introduction of the main part, and the clock sound also changes into the form of crisp percussion. And when the heavy kick drum appears in the rhythm of the verse, the melody gradually stabilizes, forming a sense of the cycle of time. Listening to the loop of the melody, you can imagine the feeling of the hands quickly turning round and round on the clock. And this sense of cycle continues in the bridge and chorus, the melody always stay in a cycle, but the beat rhythm underneath is gradually accelerating, and the layers of synthesizers become more and more, until it enters the climax of the chorus.

Going to the second part, the tension slowed down a bit, and entered a repetitive clock cycle. As it goes into the bridge part, I reduced the heaviness of the drum beats, in order to make the verse of the second part form more dynamic contrast with the next chorus which is also the climax for the whole piece. This rhythmic control can better bring dynamic and passion to the song. And after the final climax, the music enters a relatively relaxed but agile ending. I created the brisk melody with a synth sound similar to a marimba or toy piano, bring the dancers’ movements from the high dynamic and intensity part to the lightness and calmness at the end. And the whole music piece is also like a giant watch that makes a full turn and returns to the starting point, the ending just matches the brisk ticking at the beginning.

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