Moby GCSE essay
Moby – Why does my heart feel so bad?
Moby is a DJ, singer-songwriter and performer from New York. He was born in the USA in 1965. He plays keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and drums. He has written popular dance music tracks which uses sample music from other songs. ‘Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?’ was a single from Moby's dance music album Play in 1999. Club dance music is technology-based with the DJ playing an important role in mixing and presenting tracks. It is made up of four-to-the-floor rhythms, samples and loops, links to the club scene and layered textures.
In the piece ‘why does my heart feel so bad’ Moby uses instrumentation. Instrumentation is the particular instruments used in a piece of music, also the composition of a piece of music, for particular musical instruments. Moby uses Bass, Piano, Vocals, Sub-bass, Drum Kit, Synth Strings and an synth organ. The track was written and played by Moby and then recorded and mixed at his home studio. The equipment used includes synthesisers, a sampler and drum machine. A synthesiser is a machine which creates sounds electronically. A sampler is a device that can take any sound that is put into it, process it and play it back. All of the instruments used in the track were created from a programme, we can tell this by simply listening to the piece, because every note is perfectly timed. For example, if a drummer was recorded live, every note would not be as accurately timed as it would be if recorded on a computer. The first sample is a male singer and uses the words ‘Why does my heart feel so bad?’ The second sample is a female singer and uses the words ‘These open doors’. Both samples have been altered to change the meaning of the words. They have a ‘vintage’ feel, as Moby hasn’t cleaned the surface noise produced on the recordings. The samples are looped to create a melody, making it simple and repetitive. Both of these samples are looped. A sample is a recorded from a computer - it could be a guitar
Moby is a DJ, singer-songwriter and performer from New York. He was born in the USA in 1965. He plays keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and drums. He has written popular dance music tracks which uses sample music from other songs. ‘Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?’ was a single from Moby's dance music album Play in 1999. Club dance music is technology-based with the DJ playing an important role in mixing and presenting tracks. It is made up of four-to-the-floor rhythms, samples and loops, links to the club scene and layered textures.
In the piece ‘why does my heart feel so bad’ Moby uses instrumentation. Instrumentation is the particular instruments used in a piece of music, also the composition of a piece of music, for particular musical instruments. Moby uses Bass, Piano, Vocals, Sub-bass, Drum Kit, Synth Strings and an synth organ. The track was written and played by Moby and then recorded and mixed at his home studio. The equipment used includes synthesisers, a sampler and drum machine. A synthesiser is a machine which creates sounds electronically. A sampler is a device that can take any sound that is put into it, process it and play it back. All of the instruments used in the track were created from a programme, we can tell this by simply listening to the piece, because every note is perfectly timed. For example, if a drummer was recorded live, every note would not be as accurately timed as it would be if recorded on a computer. The first sample is a male singer and uses the words ‘Why does my heart feel so bad?’ The second sample is a female singer and uses the words ‘These open doors’. Both samples have been altered to change the meaning of the words. They have a ‘vintage’ feel, as Moby hasn’t cleaned the surface noise produced on the recordings. The samples are looped to create a melody, making it simple and repetitive. Both of these samples are looped. A sample is a recorded from a computer - it could be a guitar