Project Description: Take an existing piece of mucis and and change the instrumentation. This could mean taking an a capella piece, and turning it into a piece for string quartet, or taking a beethoven piece and adapting it for electric guitar bass and drums. You could even take the alma matar and turn it into a bag pipes piece (im sure the school would love that). Once you’ve change up the piece, try playing it, blog about your choices and the thinking behind them, or post a recording on soundcloud.
For this assignment, I changed the instrumentation of the song, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls and changed it into a lullaby. I got rid of the percussion in the song and changed the remaining instruments to bell-sounding instruments.
Once upon a time, a little girl named Iris was afraid for her flight to Iceland. She had never been on a plane before, and certainly had never flown over the ocean. She stayed awake for weeks, unable to sleep because she was so nervous for her flight.
Her mother noticed that she wasn’t getting any sleep so she tried to play lullabies for her, but they never worked. Iris was exhausted and frazzled. Her mother searched on end for the perfect lullaby, and then she found one that had the same name as her daughter. She played the song for Iris and she fell fast asleep by the end of the song.
Once they had collected their ticket at the Iceland Air booth and boarded their plane, Iris immediately played her favorite song and listened through her headphones. She felt soothed and fell asleep once again. From then on out, Iris listened to this song to ease her worries whenever she felt nervous.
