Marina (2023)

Описание: Marina is an aspiring free-lance artist who lived in a family who did not support her craft. With low self-esteem, and a fear of failure, Marina was hesitant to go to college to pursue her degree in art. After encouragement from her friend, she went. However, she still did not have faith in herself, and the people she met in college discouraged her. Because of this, she did not believe she was incapable of making her dreams a reality, and dropped out of college. Now, she works . a job not related to art whatsoever. Although she is not happy, Marina convinces herself that it is where she should be. Little did she know that during her time in college, her art improved a lot.

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For Marina, it took me more than a year to figure out how exactly I wanted to portray this character into music. I always knew I wanted to include a descending line into the piece, but I was not sure how to implement it. The first idea was to use a pentatonic scale to represent her, but it turned out to be too dire. The next few sketches were random ideas I came up with, but nothing worked. The main idea came to me one summer day when I was taking a walk and improvising on my kalimba. I got started on the piece that fall, but it was not sounding the way I wanted it to. The following semester, I ended up having too many ideas for it, but it is finally complete.