Farewell

This summer, I went outside my comfort zone so many times, traveled solo to even some unsafe places at night, and grew my network of musicians. I felt like a tourist in my own country sometimes because there was so much I did not know before starting this project. I got to meet amazing people and I feel like I have made connections for life. I was able to have deep conversations with so many artists I look up to in the industry. And at the end, all of it just made me realize no matter how famous someone is, they are still a human and you can easily connect with another person if you can activate that human bond in between.

I think I have a more fair perspective on my community of independent artists now. I have been able to track a similarity in their problems, successes, failures, and processes. Earlier, these people were like these distant images in my mind and I had a very idealistic viewpoint about how they must live their lives, but we had more similarities with each other than I imagined. I believe I have a more realistic idea about how Art and our industry work, about what works and what does not, and more importantly that our sounds, as much culturally rooted as they are, they have universal sonic markers in them that make Music a universal language.

I have just started assembling my CapStone project. I am having trouble recalling some memories, but I journaled a little throughout my project so that may help me in the process.