University Projects

From the beginning of 2023, I have been attending the Brisbane Campus of SAE University College, completing a Bachelor of Songwriting & Music Production/Bachelor of Music. This page is dedicated to the projects I created in university, but may not be released, due to either a negative opinion of the song from me, or laziness. This page is separated into trimesters, depending on what work was done in each trimester.

Trimester 1

Tired

Idea: Recently I have been feeling like I haven't had time to do much outside of work, uni, and other personal events. This song is about how I just want a day where I can have nothing on my mind, and I can just relax and sleep all day.

Grade: Distinction

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I'm So Stupid

Idea: This song is about feeling stupid when having feelings for someone, but not picking up the message that they don't feel the same way about you. It describes the feeling you get when you see them, but knowing they don't feel that way. 

Grade: Distinction

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Tell Me When

Idea: This song was made to reflect the feelings someone might have toward another when the feelings aren't reciprocated, but you still care a lot about them. This song is about wanting to take care of them and make sure they're okay, whilst not crossing boundaries, but finding it hard since you care so much.

Grade: High Distinction

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Let Me Know Who I Am

Idea: The feeling of struggling to find your identity, or place in the world. It implies the idea of trying over and over to be someone who you're not meant to be to fit in with others around you, all whilst trying to figure who you actually are. Most meanings in the song are based on personal experience.

Grade: High Distinction

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Layers of a Person

Context: The aim for this project is to create a piece of music that conveys an emotion, or a range of emotions. I have decided to convey 4 emotions in my composition; Grounded (happy), anxious, depressed, and defensive/hateful (anger). I am doing this through a solo acoustic guitar piece, following a single chord progression that intensifies and changes with the emotion I am trying to convey. Similar to the style of Larryland's 'Layers' (Larryland, 2023).

Grade: High Distinction

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Trimester 2

Are You Worth It?

Idea: Falling in love with someone, and wanting to talk about it with them, however, they may be more than you can handle, or less than you were expecting from the relationship. I'm in a situation at the moment where I am in love with a girl, however she isn't super ready for a relationship, and I find myself constantly questioning whether or not it's worth it to say anything to her.

Grade: Distinction

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The Storm is Coming

Idea: This song conveys the feeling of someone experiencing an anxiety attack. The verses convey the literal description of a rising anxiety attack, while the choruses convey the metaphorical description of the anxiety attack, being described as a storm.

Grade: High Distinction

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Cheesy EP - AUM181.2

This EP follows the story of a relationship breakup. The perspective is from a girls view talking about the breakup in a coffee shop, with three songs describing the story. The first song is about the relationship, and the love and longing in the relationship. The second song is about the breakup itself, and about the heartbreak and emotional damage involved. Finally, the third song is about the healing from the relationship, where the character finds herself after losing the guy.

Collaboration with Hypaflex and Christina Pantelis

Grade: Distinction

Song 1 -This Something

Song 1 Mastered.mp3

Song 2 - To Me

Song 2 (1).mp3

Song 3 - Lost You

Song 3 Mastered.mp3

I've Been Down


Idea: This song describes the current life of a man, who is on a downward spiral, and finding it hard to live life. The project was designed to make us create a song in a genre we are unfamiliar with.

Grade: Credit

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Deep

The idea of the song is to create a mysterious and dramatic piece, which can be used for a documentary trailer. This piece is an orchestral piece, including brass, stringed, and percussive instrumentation, and builds from a mysterious and quiet piece, to a powerfully dramatic ending, setting the mood of the documentary.

Grade: Distinction

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Trimester 3

Shut Up EP

The goal of this EP was to create a genre production. We were to take 2-3 genres or artists/producers, and create music based on reference tracks related to these choices. I wrote these songs based on several personal experiences.

Grade: Distinction

This EP was created as apart of a Sync Library, with associated library tracks. These songs were based on my feelings towards someone (believe it or not).

Grade: Distinction

I'm Wondering EP

Both of these EP's were available on streaming platforms, but were removed due to interpersonal conflicts, and concerns about quality. Now only available on Soundcloud.

Trimester 4

This EP was based on the same relationship as previously mentioned, which (to say the least) did not end favorably. There were 5 songs, detailing my emotions, thoughts and feelings on the situation, and was an indirect message to the person effectively letting them know how I was doing.

Grade: Credit

This EP was available on streaming platforms, but was removed due to interpersonal conflicts, and concerns about quality. Now only available on Soundcloud.