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Blog 8: A subject I enjoyed studying this semester.

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 Hi Everyone. Today I´m going to talk about a subject that I enjoyed this time, it is call "Cinema and Theater"  One of the reason that I study compositional music it is because I like movies, for me John Williams (composer of many movies like Star Wars, Harry Potter, E.T and others) was an example of what I would like to be, so this subject is one of my major subjects of my career that I´m taking right know to finish my last year. Mostly all the subject that I  have had at the university were full  theoretical contents, that´s fine because we learn a lot of compositional methods and we understand better how music it works, but in this case all the contents of Cinema and Theater are based on making music for producers, with a professional team that are in projects like chilean movies, shorts films, theater plays and more.  In this case, I have to create a piece of music from a chilean movie "La Riqueza del Mundo", they want an specific music style, sounds a...

Blog 7 - A person/expert on my field that I admire.

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 Hello guys.  Today I'm going to talk about one of my favorite composer of all time, it is difficult to decide what composer I admire more than others but i feel it is different to me, its like magic hahaha. I was discover this composer when it was on the first year of the career, so lets talk about Maurice Ravel. Joseph-Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) was a French composer, pianist and orchestral director who was an important career into neoclassical and impressionist music style, he change the sonata form and he impulse the music to get into the new era, so it is so important with his impact in the French culture and the world, so Ravel became next step for news ideas of that time, he was working at the same time with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy. Ravel was born in Saint-Jean-De-Luz, France, and he was young when demonstrate abilities for music and piano, so at 14, he entered the Paris Conservatory and start to create a lot o...

Blog 6: How Can My Major/Career Make the World a Better Place

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 Hello. Today I´m going to talk about how my major can make the world a better place. Well... is an interesting question, because some time ago I was thinking about my next step that I have to take after I finish my major. This is the last year in my career so I had a plan that includes to travel to another country and learn more about musical composition. At the first time it is sound amazing and exciting, but the time passed and I realize that this is not really what I want, so this make me change my plans.  It is logical from a musician to get expertise in the countries that classical music has more impact in the society and also has the best players around the world. But there´s something that was missing for me, the importance of sharing the knowledge of music with people that have the interest in this area, and spread our ideas in new listeners too. Like student, for me it is so difficult to know al the subjects that musical studying evolved, but in the last time I ...

Blog 5: A photograph I like.

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  Hi eveyone! Today I going to talk about one of my favorites photograph at this moment, the picture is from Temuco when I went to visit my friend Felicia, she lives there. It was this summer, when we have the opportunity to go on vacation to another region with the sanitary passport, obviously I took the chance and it was there for a week. I love so much this picture because represents a deep breath in the pandemic situation with lovely people, when it was not healthy to stay in home for a hole year. We enjoyed everyday, all day long. In Temuco we taken a tour around the city on bicycle, and we ate delicious home food from her mother, it was a really good escape. Also in the photograph the guy who took the picture its one of my best friends,  Amin. We met him in Temuco´s downtown and it was a lucky situation, because he was working in Pucón at that time and then one day he came to visit us, and with him we did a tour for the city, so that its how we take the picture. See ya!...

Blog 4 - A Meal or Food I Really Like

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 Hi Everyone. Today I going to talk about my favorite food, it is an old classic but its the most delicious plate that I ever taste. Let´s talk about Lasagna. When I was young I liked very much to eat spagetti with red sauce(and untill now xd), but an especial element was missing in that delicious meal, the cheese. So I have the oportunity to taste the combination of pasta, meat, tomatoes sauce and cheese in a restaurant that I don´t remember the name right now, and it was magic. The steps to cook this delicious plate are: First you cook the pasta and then you prepare the meat with onion to make a what we call "pino", then you add the tomatoes sauce to the pino and finally you have to prepare the cream, you put everything in layers (pasta, pino, sauce, cream and cheese) and then you repeat the second layer in the same way.  I like the combination of the texture that cheese make to the pasta with the sauce, it is like a refresh in my mouth so makes me feel more starving.  ...

Blog 3 - My Favorite Piece of Technology

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  Hi everyone! I think my favorite piece of techonology is my keyboard piano, now in theese days it´s to expensive to have some real acustic piano in home, and the real forte-pianos are in the univeristy so anyone can play it.   Fortunately I´ve had the chance to get it before pandemic, so i was lucky to have it. This instrument has been a very important object and piece of techonlogy in my place, it´s helps me with some classes thats need piano, and its a very good way to not stay boring at home, and sometimes it is relaxing to play and not lose your mind in quarantine xd. I play it every day and currtenly i study some pieces of Debussy "Childen´s Corner". In this case I play "Jimbo´s Lullaby", it´s a very "basic" piece but had a very tiny details thats make a interesting piece to play. If i didn´t have a piano, it can´t be posible to continue my studies, or I would have a lot of problems to end the career. Here is the link of the piece: https://www.yo...

Blog 2 - Why did I choose this career?

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 Hi Everyone!   When I was younger, I liked to hear some rock music, or metal, some crazy stuff that my mother listened to. In that time we loved to hear some Guns and Roses hits, it was incredible to see the music on "Terminator" movies, when the protagonist drive on a motorcycle, so amazing scene!  That influence make me think how the music comes form the screen and how its involve with cinema movies. That question impulse me to search more information and make more interest with things in relation on visual arts. Meanwhile, in my home I loved to play some videogames, I spent many hours to play all of my favorites games like Crash Bandicoot, Dino Crysis or Metal Gear Solid. One of theese games have the most beautiful soundtrack I ever hear, its from the game "Shadow of the Colossus" for PlayStation 2. That music makes me think how can i make so incredible sensation with music, playing a game.  Thats why I decided to study musical composition and i want to make mus...