2024 Submissions

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Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman

Diamonds in the Sea

I wrote this song for my boyfriend for our one-year anniversary. I wanted to lyrically tell him how much I loved him and how much he's helped me shine. He had doubted himself in the past thinking that he was not doing enough.

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Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman

Just This Time

This is a R&B beat that I made a while back in August of 2023, but when I recently found it again I knew it would be the perfect beat to submit to this competition. I've been making beats for over a year now, so I have enough experince to feel confident in this beat that I made.

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Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman

Waste the Time

As the band duo Rental we make, mix, and master our music from our bedrooms. For our song “Waste the Time,” we created the instrumental of the in the summer of 2023 and worked on it for months.

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Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman

SPADES

This short, striking composition was created in the midst of a crisis; the crisis of our very own government. It is important to recognize the oppression we face on a daily basis, not only with words, but with music.

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Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman

days gone

Well i made the music cause i thought it would be fun and cause my teacher said that we get a grade and so i thought i would do one of the hardest one to do by far so i did music after the first day i went home and started mixing and then asked one of my friends to send me a guitar riff then me and michael riverbed it then we slapped it on youtube to turn it in

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Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman

sympathetic heart

I made this song on October 7, 2023, drawing inspiration from the television show 'BoJack Horseman.' Written from his perspective, the entire song delves into the theme of forgiveness while emphasizing the importance of one not forgetting someone's mistakes.

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Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman Original Music, 2024 Caroline Bushman

Don’t Work

A cool blend of R&B and Soul with bouncy production, a catchy hook, and an old-school feel. This self-written and self-produced track dives into a person's experience moving on from a relationship that, when reflected on, didn't work since the start.

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Music Performance, 2024 Caroline Bushman Music Performance, 2024 Caroline Bushman

BWV 997 Gigue

In this performance of Bach's BWV 997 Gigue, I wanted to bring out the special beauty of Bach's music on my classical guitar. Bach's pieces are famous for being complex but also intricately delicate, and playing his music feels both challenging and exciting.

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Music Performance, 2024 Caroline Bushman Music Performance, 2024 Caroline Bushman

Zombie by The Cranberries

As Bentley Upper School's music club, we have made a goal of spreading music throughout our community through performance. The Cranberries' Zombie was the first piece that we selected this year, as we truly resonated with the song in parallel to our world and all that occurs today.

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