For my Memory Soundscape project, I want it to be my memory about me and the musical instruments I have learned to play. It is not something instant or for a short period of time, but rather a memory consisting of several fragments across years. If I’m not allowed for long-period memory, I would try to think of something else.
My memory with musical instruments started from learning the piano when I was in the second year of kindergarten. I learned the basics of piano notes from the book series called Thompson something (I will check that later.) It was a small room separate from my classroom. When the other kids went napping after lunch, I would go to that room to learn piano after my teacher. Then I went to primary school, the final “project” I learned was Dream Wedding and Childhood Memories by Richard Clayderman. Since then, I haven’t learned the piano after a teacher because I went to a boarding junior high school, and I started to learn the saxophone, the guzheng, the flute, and the suona. When I was learning them, my brother have started learning the piano as well, and the violin and the drums.
I would like to record the sounds of those instruments that my family constantly hear at our house, both the not so good sounds when we first learned them and the better sounds after we learned entire pieces of songs. I also want to include the struggles and happiness, or certain occasions like performances, we have gone through in our learning processes.
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