Jacob's Songs About Hurt

 The theme I have chosen for this blog is hurt. My main medium will be singing, with digitally created electronic sounds to back me up. For my digital audio workstation (DAW) I will be starting out with Soundtrap and Audacity, and hope to experiment with Komplete which I just acquired recently. Soundtrap was featured in my Music Learning with Technology class this past spring, so I hope to brush up on the platform and use it as a jumping off point to learn more about digital music creation. Singing connects to the concept of hurt in that singing--and more generally, organized speech--allows us to express and process these negative emotions. I have felt a lot of negative emotions in the past several months and have barely begun to process them all. I think these emotions trace back to being hurt in someway, by myself or others. I notice that as I am singing and producing the digital sounds, everything else I might worry about seems to fall to the way side. I think th...

 This week's recording is the one I am most proud of so far, since the classical genre is what I am most familiar with. To me, "Turtle Dove" is about coping with the anxieties that come with a long-distance relationship, which is something I have been struggling with since coming to UF.   As I was working on this song, I realize that we have this idea of who our partners are or are "supposed" to be. It's this idea that makes us think we are compatible, and the anxiety of long distancing comes from wondering if one of us will change until we are no longer what makes us compatible. Learning to let go of this thought process is I think a huge step to reducing this anxiety and I honestly have this song to thank for pushing me in the right direction.  You may wonder what this has to do with hurt, but I argue that anxiety is one of the ways our mind hurts ourselves in an attempt to make us solve the perceived problem, and we may lash out and hurt others in the pro...