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Under the Spotlight
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Around Music Island
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Music for the Mind
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L ETTER FR OM THE EDI TORS
Hello there reader, We are the editors and writers of The Eighth Note. In our magazine, we will be exploring the different aspects of music through the multiple perspectives of the people we interviewed. We worked hard on our overall designs and the interviews of the different people we interviewed. We hope that after reading this, you will get a better understanding of the music they love and fill their lives with every day. The first thing you will read about is an article written by Maya Cannedy-Azim about classical music and how it has stayed alive after hundreds of years. It explores the genre through the lens of three professional musicians. They each shared their experiences living in a world where classical music isn’t as popular as it was years ago, and how they found their passion for it. Our second article is by Ana Zhao, diving deeper into the behind-the-scenes of performing and creating music. From three different points of view, it unfolds the experience of performing in front of thousands of people, the highs and lows of being in the music industry, and many other aspects of being included in a band. The third article is by Addie Holder, and covers the passions and fire inside of musicians, how they got it, and what they say about what aspiring musicians could expect from a career in that industry. The last piece is by Courtney Tumolac about music therapy, which is the clinical use of music to encourage positive changes in mood and overall well-being. It explains the experience of music therapy sessions as well as the benefits music has on your health. We spent a lot of time working on and perfecting this magazine, working together to create the pages using a multitude of different softwares in hopes to make it entertaining as well as informative. We aim to create an enthralling magazine to read that broadens your perspective on the multiple different areas of music. Thank you for reading, enjoy! — The editors of The Eighth Note
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Photo courtesy of Gresham College
Cover photo courtesy of Aditya Chinchure
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Maya Cannedy-Azim is a 9th grader that attends
LASA, a public high school in Austin, Texas. She wrote about how classical music is still relevant in the world for her feature story. Her ASF reflects a survey on a small selection of the many instruments that LASA high school freshmen play. She spends her time playing a lot of instruments because she finds them very fun to play, fun to learn, and very rewarding. Besides that, she has many other hobbies including reading and drawing.
Meet the Editors Ana Zhao is a freshman at LASA who is aspiring to
attend medical school and become a doctor after she graduates high school. Some of her personal hobbies that she enjoys are singing, playing the piano, playing tennis, and reading. She wrote her feature story about the experience of performing and the creative process that goes into being in a band, in addition to her pieces on the music industry in general. Her ASF consists of a small introduction to the top 10 songs that charted on The Billboard Hot 100 in 2021. Spring2022.TheEightNote. 4
Addie Holder, who is currently in his first year of
high school, wrote about small artists in the music industry for our magazine in his feature story. Many of his hobbies include reading, hiking, camping, and playing video games as they help him to destress after school. He chose to write about small artists because he wanted to write about something that should be given more attention and is unique. Additionally, has had a variety of pets from birds to cats to reptiles as he really likes animals.
Courtney Tumolac is in freshman year at LASA high school, a magnet school in Austin, Texas. In her free time, she enjoys drawing and writing because they allow her to create interesting characters from her imagination. She created an ASF about the different favorite music genres of different Austin high school students that were freshmen through a survey. She wrote her feature story about music therapy, interviewing people that are experienced in that field about the benefits of music therapy.
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The instruments played by High School Students in Austin, Texas. Graphics by Maya Cannedy-Azim
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We surveyed Austin, Texas students, and asked them what instruments they played and if they were taking a solo or ensemble class.
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The Beat
Hasn’t Bitten the Dust By Maya Cannedy-Azim
n a world filled to the brim with music, one genre has stayed alive and kept growing through the years; Classical music. It is the basis of most of the music being played. Without it, most western music would not exist. It is such a vast genre that one could listen to it their whole life and not even hear a fourth of it. Millions of classical musicians who have spent their lives studying and perfecting their trade to keep the genre alive. It is such an important part of the history and culture of our word, and a lot of the world doesn’t know how wonderful it really is, according to Anton Nel, piano professor at Butler School of
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Music in Austin. “Classical music in itself is a little bit like an organism that doesn’t stop growing,” Nel said. “It has somehow survived through war, famines, and diseases; it really has stood the test of time.” Nel grew up with music around his house “hearing the piano even before [he] could speak.” He is now a worldrenowned pianist who has won many awards, such as first prize in the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition. “Almost everybody that goes into popular genres starts out with a classical grounding,” said Nel. “It probably enables them to write more sophisticated music than if they had not had the training.”
European classical music uses really tell that they’ve had classical hundreds of years being played by the twelve tone scale for all works. training in the way they arrange performers the whole time. The complexity of classical music the voices using more interesting “There have managed can be simplified to be to be people that used in other genres. pass the music to us “The principles from generation to you learn, when you generation,” Nel said. study classical music, is “Classical music in itself is a little Many people who something that you can choose to play classical bit like an organism that doesn’t really apply to so many music are especially other things,” Nel said. stop growing.” cognizant of the fact that The same twelve it has lasted, and will tones and derived scales continue to appreciate it. - Anton Nel established by classical “Old music, A Piano Professorr at the Butler School of Music composers are still used anything up until 1950 today in a lot of genres even as late as that, I am including pop music. harmonies,” Nel said. willing to bet my life that it will “Sometimes if you listen endure,” Nel said. Those theories and ideas to some popular music you can from classical music have traveled Joanna Ross, a student and teacher at the Butler a piano. Phto courtes y of sits as l e school of music, started N Ant on ton n playing cello in sixth A Ne l. grade where she found her passion for learning and teaching music. To a lot of musicians, the appeal of classical music stems from its rich history and the aura of the instruments that have so much meaning behind them. “I think it’s really cool that I can sit with my cello, and it’s really not that different from a cello that somebody would have played 300 years ago,” Ross said.
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The meaning behind each classical instrument and piece can be something so special to the performer and to the audience. According to Ross, classical music can change people; it is so intricately written by the composers that each person listening can feel the emotions being conveyed by each note. “It connects us through time and beyond language,” Ross said. “Like most modern pop music it uses your language. And while you
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can connect to the beat and the sound of it, there’s an element that have to know English to fully understand this certain pop song. But classical music is where everybody can hear the sound and connect to it.” Paula Blaha is a piano and violin performer. She had a knack for music when she was young, so her mom enrolled her in music lessons. She has been performing ever since. “How many of them are interested in seeing what pop music was interesting? 300 years ago? Probably not very many,” Blaha said.
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Classical music has stayed alive, continuing to prosper, even with so many changes to what music was popular at any time There are still classical composers making masterpieces even today, like: Igor Lebitt, Víkingur Olafsson, Mike Block, and John Rutter. They’re all working towards making the next big Moonlight Sonata. “That music has completely endured where the other kinds of music have not,” Blaha said. “There aren’t as many people interested in still trying to play that other music”
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Dua Lipa Song from the album Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa. It’s categorized as electro-disco, incorporating lots of pop elements
The Weeknd & Ariana Grande This song reached number one on Billboard top 40 list and stayed there for 4 weeks in a row
The Weeknd The popularity skyrocketed after becoming a TikTok dance and the Super Bowl half-time show performance by The Weeknd
24KGoldn ft. Iann Dior Gained popularity on TikTok, and was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 8 weeks, also charted in multiple other countries
Olivia Rodrigo Single from Olivia Rodrigo’s debut studio album, SOUR
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Graphics by Ana Zhao Source: The Hot 100
Doja Cat ft. SZA On Doja Cat’s third album, Planet Her, this song used a sample of Olivia Newton-John’s song ‘Physical’
Silk Sonic Picked up the ‘Record of the Year’, ‘Song of the Year’, ‘Best R&B Song’, a total of four grammys, just for this single
Olivia Rodrigo Olivia Rodrigo’s debut single set Spotify’s record for most streams in a day with 15.17 million streams. Now it has 1.3 billion streams
Lil Nas X First previewed in a Super Bowl LV commerical. This is the lead single and title track from Lil Nas X’s debut studio album Montero
Justin Bieber ft. Daniel Caesar, Giveon Debuted on the Billboard Hot 100. This song also reached charts and many other countries
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by ANA ZHAO udiences don’t often think about what happens behind the scenes of the band performances they watch. In actuality, these musicians got together to pursue something they have been passionate about from a young age. Each member gained expertise in this area from performing. They have learned so much past the surface level of music. Learn about Austin musicians’ musical upbringing, the sentiment of music, and their experiences in the industry. Different people developed their passion for music in many different ways, from having parent influences to
just listening to music on the radio. For Austin musician Mike Williams, a bass guitarist for the band Audio Rode, a love for sound came from his family. “My father was always playing the guitar or the piano and singing songs in our house as I was growing up,” Williams said. “I just developed an interest in being able to kinda do the same thing that he does, so I decided to learn the guitar.” Williams’ dad influenced him greatly for his love of music. Music has always been a big part of their family culture. During holiday gatherings, people would join in by singing and playing instruments. Henry Pinter, a member of the band ‘Vinyl Zen’ started out by hearing a good song on the radio.
“When I was a teenager, there was one band, I heard this song come on, and I could hear the drums, the bass, and the guitar, and it became clear to me,” Pinter said. “I thought ‘Wow, I love this, I’d like to be a part of this’, so I worked to be able to do that.” Hearing tunes on the radio is fun or exciting to listen to on the go or as a pastime. In addition to that, different music can also let a lot of emotions come out. Music leads to deeper feelings and means more than the distracted ear may hear. “It’s healing…if you’re sad, and you play the blues, it makes you feel better,” Pinter said. “If you’re happy and you play the blues, well it don’t matter because you’re gonna feel better anyway. Music is a pretty serial
spiritual thing.” from there.” Even without lyrics, expressing If Williams gets deep feelings emotion through instruments often about something going on in his life, is very relieving. he starts thinking of lyrics that relate Playing blues is Pinter’s go-to way of to his feelings, and just writes it all creating simple joy. Harrison Knight, down. After that, he starts figuring out the lead vocalist and guitarist of the the chords, melody, and what the song band Daydreamer, agreed that playing is trying to convey. instruments is something that is worth Songwriting can also be driven his time. and inspired by stars in the music “The more you listen to it, it industry that the artist looks up to. makes you go deaf, but every moment Knight explained he takes of it that makes you go deaf is the inspiration in his band’s instrumost enjoyable part of my life,” mentals from the Beatles. He thinks Knight said. of ideas that his band will take turns Although Knight said there throwing around at group sessions, are drawbacks to performing and and just play around with different listening, the whole experience is melodies. Although most of the time, worth it and it can create many happy a good song doesn’t come from these memories sessions, in the long they “Human beings need other human run. have fun “Music playing beings. Even people who consider is one of around, themselves loners…being a human the few figuring means that you’re part of a human things… out what community, and there is a longing that bring a they like large group and don’t in each of us to be with other together, like. people” - Mike Williams, and have bass guitarist everybody thinking and doing and acting the same way, “Sometimes you have an idea pop in just for a minute, it’s a powerful your head and sometimes something connective device,” Williams said. random, and you have people around “It is the sound of human emotion… you that’ll throw things at it, different the thoughts and feelings that people ideas, because everyone has different have.” ideas,” Knight said. Because Williams has performed The process of writing songs so much, he has experienced how can look very different for different much emotion can really play a big musicians. Working with a group part in music. It connects people of of people and working alone is a many different backgrounds, uniting whole different view on song writing. everyone through shared passion for Knight’s band often writes together, music. Creative processes in writing while Pinter individually writes before also tend to stem from deep emotions bringing the song to his group. turning into lyrics and a melody. “I look at it as a discipline, it’s “It’s from a place of sort of like anything else, the more you do emotional intensity,” Williams said. it, the better you get, so I try to do it “I really never know what the song is every day,” Pinter said. about till it’s over…I get the one little Pinter added that for the most idea, the inspiration, and start writing part, the songs being written don’t end it and let the process lead me to what up making the cut, but constantly the song’s about and the lyrics come
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three times at their school, McCallum wall High School, they have to bring and the instruments and sound systems it’s like all the way to school, which also when you requires physical strength. Knight’s look at that, band includes guitars, keyboards, it’s like, ‘Oh drums, a bass, etc., so there is a lot of that’s what I wanna equipment to carry around. do, and that’s what I Pinter agreed, saying it is a big hassle wanna do tonight’…I just to set up before you play and taking want to replicate what I like, everything down after you play. Other so I make sure not to forget that downsides could include anxiety or when I go up there,” Knight said. being scared about the crowd. Besides practicing, Knight also “I was very nervous when I was makes sure to remind himself that in first performing, extremely bad stage his performance, he wants to replicate fright,” Williams said, “performing writing his influences and what he likes. He to maybe an empty venue or maybe exercises also mentions that he tried to not take there’s only a few people there and songwriting abilities, himself too seriously, and just tries to they’re not really paying attention to making it easier with more the music, so that could be a practice. When songs do little embarrassing.” come out, they get to perform Before performing, original songs in front of their many musicians feel anxious. “It’s a moment where thousands live audiences along with Williams mentioned that a lot of people are all on the same page, their covers. of practice and performing While preparing for thinking and expressing the same more often helps him performances, Williams says overcome that fear a little bit, thing all at the same time, and it that his band gets together although it still occurs on a just feels like this connection that and first decides on which smaller scale. all people really have” songs to perform and practice On the flip side, there - Mike Williams, and practice to get rid of the bass guitarist are a lot of positives and anxiety and nervous feelings highlights to performing as while performing. well. The band Daydreamer “Before the concert and enjoy and have fun. said that the benefits outweigh the performance, the band will agree Many people don’t think about unfavorable moments. on a set list,” Williams said. “I just the physical aspects of performing, but “Occasionally when there’s take some time leading up to the through performing for hours on end, a larger crowd there, and the band is performance to make sure I know the Pinter learned how much energy and sounding really good, and people start material very well.” athleticism it takes to do this. dancing…they clap, and sometimes Similarly, Pinter said, “I try to stay in shape…you have they even sing along. Those are the “Rehearsal…I just take the difficult to be in shape to be able to physically best ones,” Williams said. passages or the tricky ones and try have the hand and finger strength to Performing with a big crowd to review them before I actually play play for over three hours,” Pinter said. was one of Williams’ highlights. He them.” There are also many other performs all around Texas, playing Practicing the songs being negatives to performing that aren’t many charity gigs or fundraisers for performed is a very important part shown or given thought to by the groups raising money and looking of the preparation, which also helps audience or people just enjoying the forward to having that big energetic to calm the nervousness while he’s music. crowd helps motivate him to keep playing, so he can just pay attention Knight said, “tuning, yeah, it’s a performing. to the crowd and the other band really big hassle to bring gear to the Knight said, “I love the members. venues…bringing a drum set to school atmosphere of all of our shows…On “I have a Nirvana poster on my and a PA system is not fun”. one of our newer songs, called ‘No Because their band has performed Name 23’, in the live performance
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Mike Williams (left) plays the guitar while performing with his band, Audio Rode, at an outdoor venue. of it, the audience put up their phone lights.” Due to COVID, Knight’s band was unable to perform for a while. His first performance in a while out
Harrison Knight sings and plays the electric guitar while performing at The Hole in the Wall.
of quarantine, they performed at The Hole In The Wall, a historical venue in Austin, and Knight said it went really well. They had a very great audience and performed to the best of their abilities. After experiencing this throughout the years, overall, the common consensus seems to be that the one thing they would change about the music industry is the exploitation of performers. “Record companies definitely do not pay entertainers enough and give them enough residuals on the original music…and local venues,” Pinter said. “Musicians lose out on pretty much all benefits…a lot of people have to throw away their passion so that they can live, which is very unfortunate,” Knight said. Pinter and Knight agree that big streaming services aren’t fairly paying their artists, and so the services end up making lots of money and being very successful while musicians barely anything. Williams mentioned this, but also had a different take on this.
“It’s forcing those really famous artists to go out and perform concerts more, cause that’s how they make most of the money now,” Williams said. This is a positive take on the low pay from streaming services. Williams also enjoys seeing artists perform at concerts, but says sometimes they are being forced to do so many performances just to earn enough. Music goes deeper into feelings and understanding that comes with experience. The different aspects of it contribute a lot to individuals and differ peoples’ perspectives on music, creating a great passion. “Music does help bring people together from all kinds of different backgrounds, different political perspectives, and just for that moment in that song, you know, you’re all really functioning as one, and it’s just an amazingly powerful experience,” Williams said.
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FROM THE STONE AGE TO THE MODERN ERA
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Renaissance flutes were one piece flutes constructed in the middle ages. The average flute measured 60 centimeters in length and was constructed of wood.
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Around
Music Islan
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Music island is a place with beautiful beaches littered with traps and dangerous creatures such as flying scorpions, fire-breathing butterflies, and laser sharks. This whereabouts is not a physical one, but one that percussionist Trevor Detling says every musician has been to.
Every time you go around that island, you get new information and that information is experienced. -Trevor Detling, percussion artist “You know, music is an island
wasted because of a lack of a paved
has been to music island before, and
and you go around that island until
road into music. Here, learn about
how the island shows the change
you’re done,” Detling said.
how established musicians made it
in what is able to be perceived and
into this daunting industry, what
played in music.
Careers such as music can be daunting compared to office jobs
makes them tick, and the tips they
that promise a steady income. There
have for others.
are performers who have already
Detling has been performing pro-
“The first time around that island, you’re just trying not to step on a poisonous frog or on a jagged rock
navigated the winding path that is a
fessionally since the age of 14, and
slide or quicksand,” Detling said.
music career who can give their tips
has made it to the prestigious Carn-
“So you’re looking at the ground for
to aspiring musicians. Many up and
egie Hall in his time as a performer.
the first time around the island. You
coming musicians’ talent has been
He explained that every musician
don’t really see anything.”
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These traps could mean many
that could keep up. And next thing,
cocky and feeling your ego,” De-
things, such as metaphorical quick-
we put this little band together and
tling said, “people are gonna be like,
sand sucking your will to perform,
everybody just all kind of hap-
‘Man, that kid was great. You know,
causing burnout. Detling said that as
pened,” Detling said.
too bad. They haven’t developed
one progresses in their journey into
Detling has all kinds of experi-
humility yet. Maybe we’ll call them
music, they gain a lot of knowledge.
ence after having performed since
down the road when they’ve grown
“Every time you go around that
the ripe age of 14, and can offer all
up a little bit.’”
island, you get new information and
kinds of tips and tricks for aspiring
that information is experienced,“
or up and coming musicians. His
in the music industry as an oak tree.
Detling said.
most stressed tip for musicians was
He started out as a small seed, but
to be mature.
after he built a good reputation for
Detling has been visiting music island since very early on in his
“No matter how rock and roll the
Detling describes his experience
what he did and who he was, his
life. He has been “flirting” with the
situation is, you really would benefit
name was passed around, and then
drums since the young age of 10
from trying to be more mature than
the seed that was planted grew into a
months.
you actually are,” Detling said.
large oak tree. The tree branches are
“As soon as I had a real thought
Young musicians really rely on
a tangled web of connections, and
in my head, probably at two or three years old I had tunnel vision on drums, and everything drum related,” Detling said. His passion was ignited at such a young age, and he has been obsessed with music ever since. He went from taking piano and drum lessons early on in his life to consistently winning first chair in state competitions.
You write from every angle, and you perform from every angle. And you know, you have a whole rainbow of emotions and colors and sounds to infinitely put together. It’s the greatest art form ever. -Trevor Detling, percussion artist
With all this experience, it’s not a surprise Detling became good very quickly.
their connections to make money.
Detling has used his far reaching
You want to get as many connections
branches to do what he loves most:
to take my drumset playing to the
and get your name out there as a
playing his drums onstage and shar-
next level at a very young age, which
musician so you start getting offers
ing the gift of music.
got the attention of the older kid that
to play for people, or gigs.
“I was one of the first kids around
was a really awesome guitar player and he needed to have a drummer
“If you’re a cocky little kid that does a great job but you’re super
“My favorite part about music is just going deep with the experience and letting that nourish everybody
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Bradley Shelton I come in contact with.
dancers look good, and
It makes your conversa-
the singers sound great,
tion with people poetic,”
and the costumes pop
Detling said. “You write
harder, and the lights will
from every angle, and
look brighter,” Detling
you perform from every
said. “Everything’s just
angle. You have a whole
better when the drums
rainbow of emotions
are locked in.”
and colors and sounds
Detling said being a
to infinitely put together.
musician is about the fire
It’s the greatest art form
inside to play and spread
ever: music, and especial- the “greatest artform ly for me, drumming and ever.” percussion.”
“I love what I do,”
Detling is quite
Detling said. “I’ve been
passionate about the
doing it for 28 years. I’m
fine arts, and this really
not burnt out, I think you
shines through when he
can hear that in my voice.
talks about what he loves
I’m not not burned out.
most, drumming and
I’m passionate about it. I
percussion.
want to do it for another
“You have to do the best drum job that you
28 years. Bradley Shelton is
can do. Not so the drums an IT professional who
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sound good. And not
has figured out how to
even for the band [to]
balance his passion for
sound good. But so the
music while staving off
burnout. He plays the upright
repetitiveness of being a classical
“But on tour, you just walk onto
and electric bass six months out
musician, especially if you’re
the stage, you pick up your in-
of the twelve in a year.
in an orchestra, can be very
strument, and you play. And it’s
difficult. You have to figure out
a beautiful thing.”
“It allows me to still enjoy the things that I enjoy about playing
ways to keep the music fresh
and about being a musician,
and alive, because [when] you
warnings about being a musician
without letting the things that I
play accompaniment for a piano
is that playing comes with a level
don’t enjoy get in the way, “ Shel-
concerto for the 9,000th time, it
of carrying around equipment.
ton said.
can become difficult.”
Shelton used to be a full time
One of Shelton’s biggest
“[It] can get laborious. I’ve
Shelton has been playing
been playing professionally as
musician before he found his
music for 32 years, and has per-
a bass player since ‘90,” Shelton
balance. He said that as a full
formed in all kinds of shows. He
said. “So when we’re talking 32
UPRIGHT & ELECTRIC time musician, he got burnout
really lit up when talking about
years, that aspect of music can
from playing nonstop, especially
the times he has been on tour.
get laborious; moving equip-
because he is in the classical field of music.
“One thing [about] being
ment around and whatnot.
an upright bass player: it comes
So for me, that’s sort of why I
“I’m still mainly a classical
with a level of hauling around
do what I do now, sort of six
musician,” Shelton said. “The
your equipment,” Shelton said.
months active, six months, not
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“[It] really is about nurturing those relationships. Especially when you’re a young musician, also being willing to go around and do and go around to different environments, and move to different cities and go on tour, and do all of those things and find out if the life of a musician is what you want,” -Bradley Shelton, upright and electric bassist
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active.” Shelton decided to do IT work to not have the stress
cian. “[It] really is about nurturing those relationships. Es-
of playing music for making money instead of playing for
pecially when you’re a young musician, also being willing
the sake of playing. He has this to say about working full
to go around and do and go around to different environ-
time:
ments, and move to different cities and go on tour, and
“When you are full time and it’s the only thing that you are doing for your living, there is a certain you know, it’s what you’re doing for a job, it’s what you’re doing to
do all of those things and find out if the life of a musician is what you want,” Shelton said. Detling and Shelton had some interesting predictions
make money to pay your rent to pay your bills, and all of
about what would happen to the music industry in the
those things,” Shelton said. “So it’s just a different level of
future.
pressure or expectation, you know?” “When I have a musical coming up, more or less
“I think the modern living room will change,” Detling said. “I don’t think there’ll be a big TV on the wall any-
about a month out, especially if I haven’t been playing for
more. I think there’ll be a pod in the middle of the room
a while, I will start looking at the music and slowly start
that projects a 360 degree, omni directional picture, or
playing it and get my piece together both as an exercise
people will sit around the room and watch the hologram
to get myself back into being a musician and also sort of
that’s in the middle of the room. Very Star Trek, very Star
to get the physical nature since I play upright bass and
Wars II. I do think that that’s on its way.”
electric bass.” Shelton warns that while the life of a musician ‘can sometimes be the sort of a fantasy world that people
Shelton thinks classical music will be a harder industry to get into. “In a city [which] once had two or three or four
think of what it’s going to be,’ at other times there are
orchestras, they now have one,” Shelton said. “So when a
restrictions that may be unforeseen.
position comes up, now you’ve got 300 people trying out
When you are working gigs as a musician, you are
for one position.
“committing yourself to whatever that show schedule is.
However music changes in the future, one thing is
And if you’re a touring musician, whether that’s on the
for sure. Music island will always continue to grow and
show, or whether that’s like I said, with a locked room
expand as it is explored by musicians on their journey of
or something like that, you know, almost every night or
self discovery through music.
three nights in a row or four nights in a row, every single
“It’s what [music] does, to my mind and my body and
evening, you are doing a performance. And that is not
my spirit,” Detling said. “It’s what it does, for my head,
stopping, and you’re expected to be there just about no
my heart in my hands. It’s the walk. It’s the pride that
matter what. So in that way, it’s not flexible,” Shelton said.
you take, knowing that you wake up every day to move
Just like Detling, Shelton recommends making as
forward on this path. Whether it’s for yourself or for your
many connections as possible as a newly minted musi-
students, or for the music you’re writing. It’s the journey.”
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Favorite Music Genre 24 responses • Austin-area Freshman • Google Forms survey
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54.2%
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“I feel that Rap has so many different forms and sub-variates that anyone can find something they like or relate to.” -Emil Trevino
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by COURTNEY TUMOLAC
usic therapy is the clinical use of music to accomplish physical, emotional, cognitive, and social goals. Although it’s often associated with treating neurological conditions, Ryan Judd, a music therapist and artist, explains that music therapy is effective for patients with vastly different needs. “Yes, a lot of music therapists work with individuals with special needs but there's also music therapists working in hospitals, focusing on pain management,” Judd said. “There's also music therapists working in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, helping elders learn how to regain speech or learn how to walk again if they've had a stroke or just orient them to space and time to provide them with quality of life.” To accomplish these goals, Judd customizes the client’s sessions by writing a song made specifically for them which gives them opportunities to work on their challenges.
Photo courtesy of Ryan Judd
Music for the Mind A look into music therapy
“Maybe, maybe they're unable to jump well, maybe they're lacking that coordination to jump up and down, that... critical developmental skill,” Judd said. “And so you make up a fun jumping song with their name and you get a section that -- you're both jumping up and down and they're getting lots of repetition and they're having fun with it.”
Clients don’t need any outside motivators when it comes to music therapy, Judd explains, relying entirely on music to encourage them. “The music is such a reinforcement — if I'm in the middle of a song with a client and they're playing this when I'm having fun and all of a sudden I do a pause or a freeze for them to do fine motor movement, use
communication... practice one of those goals we're working on and then the music starts up again the music is the reinforcement.” Music therapy sessions provide an interactive element that helps to foster a connection between the therapist and patient, allowing the patient to have trust in the therapist’s methods.
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