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Kaleo G.
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Aiko H, Roan H, Sebastian E, Asante S
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My artistic process often begins with an idea. In this case, I went out into nature to find inspiration. Roan, my friend had a shaker full of pebbles and pine needles, and I got the inspiration to make a song that embodies the idea of “growth”. When we started to craft the song, Roan played a guitar riff and we jammed on the idea. The song was growing, becoming more dense, like the nature we saw on our hike in Tilden Regional Park. The song continued to grow as I recruited others to play piano and bass, while also finding someone to work as our sound engineer. After listening back to the recorded instrumental, I thought it needed more layers, so I recruited a vocalist to add melodies and harmonies. Once adding all the parts I wanted, I asked a friend to mix the song, and it was done!
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To me, creativity is artistic expression and the ability to convey specific thoughts and emotions through, in my case, music. Creativity means collaboration, working with like-minded people to find the greatest opportunities within our ideas. Last, creativity is unusual or unique; it’s the way we express ourselves individually and collectively.
