Studying at SAE Byron Bay is being an amazing experience in my life, and a huge step in following a career in the Music Industry. After 5 trimesters at SAE I could learn and develop my skills to become an industry practitioner, getting proper instructions from highly qualified professionals who are helping me to develop all the necessary skills to build a successful career.
Since last year, we could have great experiences when learning about numerous relevant topics, and developing our own projects to apply and achieve all the learning outcomes.
Below there's a selection of the most relevant projects that I got involved in this trimester, as well as some previous work and other music projects that I run, out of uni time.
By working together with people from all over the world, I could build great relationships and see their creativity, culture, and all skill sets together! It was always incredible to find out brilliant talents to collaborate with, building great relationships and future partnerships! After all the efforts, I feel satisfied, proud and happy with the results, my learning process, the friends I made, the staff members I could engage with, my improvement in the industry, and the development of my creativity and techniques!
Big thanks to my family and all the friends who support it!
Suite of Songs - A collection of musical pieces which are played in a sequence together one after another. The final piece leads to a journey, going through numerous emotions that induce happiness, joy, nostalgia, sadness, and fear. I explored Electronic Music and some sub-genres, creating an audiovisual experience for the listener, using genre tropes and the right elements to create each of these emotions.
These were the first tracks that I have ever produced in these genres, and there was a big research process to find out about numerous techniques to achieve the results I wanted. I have collaborated with other musicians and it was very important, they added positive results and color to my final music pieces.
Concepts such as music literacy, recording techniques, timbres, song structure, arrangement, scales, chord progressions, mixing, automation, harmony, melody, synthesis, analysis of reference tracks, and video editing are the main concepts that I explored through this project. I also tried to practice my multidisciplinary skills once again, working on as many tasks that a music production scenario has, developing my hard and soft skills within the whole creative process.
Collection of original production compositions in collaboration with various performers;
Exploration of Electronic Music Genres;
Associated emotions and genre tropes;
Production & Recording Techniques in Electronic Music;
Collaboration with a bassist, guitarist and a vocalist;
Remote and presencial collaboration with musicians;
Selection of visual material to cause impact.
Exploring loops and House Music
No Eyes - Claptone (Reinterpretation)
Exploring loops and Hip Hop
Fresh Prince of Bel Air (Cover)
These are some music projects that I run, where I am able to apply what I have been learning at SAE, developing new ways to produce and perform live music.
Duo-Project of Electronic Music
Website: www.MattySax.com
Instagram: @mateusmmacedo
Email: craftingsounds@gmail.com
Skillsets: Musician, Composer, Music Producer & Audio Engineer.
DAWs: Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, Ableton Live.