The Weekend “Lock-In”
On the second album of the ‘24 spring semester, students “locked-in” for a whole weekend in the SENSES Lab. Beginning on Friday morning and finishing Sunday night, everything you hear was written, produced, recorded, and mixed in one weekend. Whether you’re locking in for final exams, a job interview, or anything else, we hope the tracks on this album provide you with inspiration to keep going!
HEART/BREAK
In preparation for Valentine’s Day, SENSES students decided their next collaborative album would touch on the theme of love. Rather approach this topic in one traditional album, students chose to create a double album. Side A, entitled HEART, touches on the light, happy sides of love, while Side B, entitled BREAK, brings the sounds of love gone wrong.
A SENSES Summer
This is SENSES' spring collaborative album release, which contains 19 tracks from students, staff, faculty, and even some community partners! The vibe is summer, and these tracks cover the range of moods and situations one might experience once the weather gets warm. Tracks range from uptempo hip-hop to chilled out indie to frantic drum and bass and everything in between. Kick your feet up, grab a lemonade, and enjoy!
A SENSES Holiday
In this holiday album, people in the SENSES community came together to write 13 songs, 9 originals, 3 covers, and 1 remix of a Christmas classic. Within this album you'll experience a wide range of vibes, from the warm of love in Home for Christmas by Kiki, to the loneliness that many experience with Christmas with Clementine by Caleb Aguirre-Leon.
A SENSE of Community, Vol. 1
This short EP was created by the members of the ARI 200 class “Creating Community Thru Sound.” These students collaborated throughout the semester on projects that utilized sound in order to form and analyze community. These projects included podcasts, sound art, and music. For this projects, students worked together in pairs, rotating in a circle around the room, adding onto each project that the previous group had started. When the cycle had completed, all five had worked on all five songs.
A Part Of Me
This track was shared with OSS Associate Director Amy Messersmith when she returned to work in October 2022 from a medical leave due to appendicitis. This is an original song written and performed collaboratively with students and staff in the lab. It's reminiscent of an 80s power ballad that is equal parts hilarious and heartwarming. Needless to say this song holds a very special place in Amy's heart (as well as other essential internal organs).