I Made A Few Tunes to Travel Through Time
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hello hello
my name is dylan kenny i make music
under the name autropic i’ve been
listening to music my whole life
um however only recently i’ve fallen in
love with
compositions and adding lyrics and
vocals over these tracks
um something i love to do as well as
making music for people to enjoy to
uplift
and uh something i found very tough was
to make music for different
age ranges and generations i struggled a
lot with making music for much
older people so in that case it made me
think
why is why is it that their taste
differs to ours because at the end of
the day we’re all
we’re all people um so
it made me think maybe it’s not the
taste but
the society around them that molds the
way that they think and
their passions and what they’re driven
by and that’s what music reflects
um and so in that case i hope i can take
you on a musical journey
um designated a little composition that
i’ve made produced and vocalized over
to represent each decade from the 1940s
to now
and yeah i hope you enjoy
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i can’t keep on chasing
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it’s too late to be asking why
i’m
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there’s something i can’t see
uh so starting off in the 1940s when the
majority of world war two took place
was when there was a lot slower jazzy
melodies infused with a centralized
theme of love in the lyrics
with recognizable names to this day such
as fitzgerald and louis armstrong
however what intrigued me was the
formation of acapella groups as such as
the four freshmen
who would stack melodies and harmonies
using simply their voices
perhaps you could hear the layered vocal
harmonies and corny lyrics in my version
as well
however in the 1950s rock and roll
became much more prevalent
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so rock and roll surged in popularity
not only musically but socially
packing songs with energetic vocals fast
tempo electric guitars and snappy drums
led to the empowerment of younger
generations
they were able to appreciate the
influence of african american styles
no matter the race of the performer or
the audience
it commercialized the merging of
different styles to create a common
culture between white and black
teenagers
and the more sexualized lyrics and
vibrant percussion allowed for artists
such as elvis presley and later jimi
hendrix to take over the rock and roll
scene
but in the 1960s this energy was
transformed into something even bolder
breaking away from the social norms
revolutionizing music
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so throughout the 1960s the energetic
bounce in the music scene was carried on
and arguably accentuated by a movement
called the british invasion era
musicians fused pop and rock to fuel the
counterculture that emerged in this
decade
you might have heard of the repetitive
power chords with distorted electric
guitars
and head bumping rhythms in the vein of
garage rock to highlight the rebellious
nature of its decade
with bands such as the kinks and the
sonics a new level of energy brought to
stage
and in some way reflected the culture of
breaking away from the mainstream at
that time
but then the 1970s switched things up
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the 1970s was arguably a very important
decade as it popularized the new wave of
disco
the african-american swing was mixed
with impressively smooth rifts on the
synthesizers and electric guitars
this went hand in hand with the american
nightlife driving forward the culture of
freeform dancing and
loud expressive music hopefully this
shines through
with the pitch bending synths and
regular hitting drums giving a strutting
sensation in the rhythm
that accompanies the funky melodies but
in the 1980s
these funky soulful components bled into
the pop mainstream
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don’t understand
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as funk and disco culture grew came the
emergence of dance music and new wave in
the 1980s
with the rise of pop music and
commercial bangers stars like michael
jackson dominated the music scene
putting funk and disco components into
the mainstream using catchy and
repetitive riffs behind groovy drum
patterns i tried to resonate the 1980s
pop feel
by building a beat behind a snappy
trumpet sample whilst accompanying the
instrumental with punchy vocals and
lyrics
the 1990s however followed with an
emergence of fringe
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see it behind music ball and chain the
rattles as it locks right onto my feet
getting lighter
ooh it’s getting louder by the day i’m
feeling higher losing sleep over the
things that never matter
always changing styles so it never gets
boring i wanna
switch back to when everything was on
normal back when socks rolled up
and my shoes weren’t popping now my door
is so shut i can’t figure out what’s
behind it
gave it all i got there’s nothing left
maybe that’s messed with me
we want the club so that i’m not lost in
my memories but i’ll carry
when there’s nothing there turntable’s
turning how times can change on a
journey studio red i’m not vermin but i
will take every crumb i can get
in 1993 the world wide web is launched
to the public
it reframed how the audience could find
and listen to music and people had
access to much wider range of different
styles of music
that’s why niche and new genres became
much more popular
faster than they did ever before however
arguably the biggest influence of this
decade was hip hop
and rap predominantly by rappers like
ice cube jay-z or snoop dogg
and to replicate this i played a simple
melody on an old-school type piano
to sit behind some old swinging boom bad
drums
then by the 2000s this kind of music hit
the mainstream
climbing up the tree forget i’m climbing
up forever shout out rudolph barry
someone ever so weary take the time to
fake what’s my turret the mountain for
my carry holder
i don’t wanna crash now a nice steering
set up in the back i got my hands up to
the ceiling so
what i wanna roll up cruising getting
slower wheels losing faith but i think
i’m going forward
sides i’ve never seen this wasted memory
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the 2000s had prominent artists such as
the black eyed peas and outcast who
brought a hip-hop balance to mainstream
pop
implementing a tasteful balance of
electronic and acoustic instruments
brought forward radio hits and carried
the swing that boombap beats had
by blending both rap and pop catchy
vocals
bands such as the black eyed peas became
household names
amongst the commercial music scene in my
track i manipulated real drum
sounds to give a bounce to the simple
synth riff that i played throughout
the 2010s i found particularly difficult
to synthesize into just one short track
however
so i simply followed my own perception
of how electronic music dominated the
musical scene
what a fast flash straight toward me
lights that keep on glowing like they’re
coming
after giving him me
to have a better understanding cause i
never dreamed
instead i gotta never land with a frozen
chance
can you give a little time to have a
better understanding cause i never
in the 2010s i wanted to focus on the
influence and growth of electronic music
with billboard names such as kygo david
guetta and tiesto
the music charts were often scattered
with edm i decided to focus more on kygo
as i believe he provided a unique
and recognizable sound by fusing genres
he provided a gateway for electronic
music towards a mainstream
audience we have now reached the end of
the musical performance
um as you may have seen um
music is informed by an array of
different events that happen in a
certain
era or decade and 2020 is no different
um it’s definitely shaped my music taste
and creative process
and yeah i just i love making music it
makes me happy and i hope that you enjoy
these songs that i’ve made
here is my song that i made myself
called
get wavy and yeah ot
signing out
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a lot of different views
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