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"Around The World"

When I was younger I can remember running home every day to watch MTV. As I grew older, it transitioned from latenight music videos, then TRL, and now Youtube and Pandora. I can remember coming across this song, sitting in my kitchen with my brother and sister watching music videos as our 15″ TV sat on the counter. The video introduced me to the power of interarts and it's contributors -- having every artistic medium being part of a whole.

The lighting, the song, the costumes, the editing, choreography, the timing. It was the perfect storm, and boy did it grab me.

It wasn't until years later when I studied with Andrea Clearfield and Manfred Fischbeck did I learn more about this first hand. When everything comes together, magic happens. Nothing is ever a solo act. Nothing. A movie integrates the arts in the sense that film editors, musicians, actors, marketing directors, fashion designers, lighting specialists, and more all have to come together. Even a pen wouldn't be possible unless different mediums came together -- the ink suppliers, artistic designers, supply chain, etc. All the things we have today is a product of someone before us. It's at that moment that I realized we're all simply adding to other's lives -- both in the present and the future.

That's what this piece says to me. If 'Harder Better Faster Stronger' taught me the power of sharing and remixing video, then this piece taught me the power of collaborating and realizing that the song is a part to something beautiful, not just something on it's own.

I love this song, and spent a lot of time on it. To this day, it's one of the best music videos I've ever seen -- with each melody and harmonic texture of the song being acted out through each synchronized group. Such a simple idea, and such a powerful result that I was eager to capture with my arrangement.