Vulnerability is something we cannot expect from everyone. For my final project in Apollo, I wanted to get as raw and stripped down as I possibly could. I thought to share out and open up about sexual assault, more specifically sex trafficking. I wanted to layer on and speak out about the lack of attention sex trafficking gets and why it is important for that to stop. In regards to synthesis, I curated in every project, a piece that blended more than one idea.
history
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Malaysia and Singapore all have women who suffered from sex trafficking. For my history I wanted to research these women and where they were trafficked, and also the culture of sex trafficking from their nation. I created my 'album' cover using scaled lines from graphs and maps of the world. This was how I integrated synthesis into this portion of my project. I over-layed the lines and labeled each 'song' as a women who I researched. I gathered these personal accounts to add another sense of vulnerability to my project. I entitled my album 'vulnerability' because I feel like listening to the song I created for my art portion, the first emotion I felt was a sense of raw, vulnerable, pain.
To add synthesis to my project even more, I took lyrics from seven different songs that had no meaning and correlation to sexual assault at all, and made them read out to be a song that spoke about a personal story with sexual assault. The meanings of these songs alone are very happy and go lucky and do not allude to any sense of vulnerability, until I merged the lyrics together. I made my own melody and recorded my track for my final project.