{"id":15020,"date":"2020-09-24T18:53:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T00:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=15020"},"modified":"2020-10-01T20:27:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T02:27:05","slug":"student-releases-self-produced-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2020\/09\/24\/student-releases-self-produced-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Student releases self-produced EP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Junior Maddy Hall released her own <\/strong>Extended Play (EP) album titled, \u201cFrom This Hour\u201d named after one of Walt Witmans\u2019s poems. Hall wrote all the songs in a five-day period while she was at home over the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t want to be scared to be bad,\u201d Hall said. \u201cI want to embrace the fact that I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing \u2014 to make mistakes and work from there \u2014 instead of never doing anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hall said that during quarantine, she was trying to challenge herself creatively, so she wrote one song every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wanted her music to be homemade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collection of five songs were recorded in one take on Hall\u2019s back porch. Each song was written, performed and mixed by Hall using minimal equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I think about working with Maddy, I think about the story,\u201d senior Laura Weber said. \u201cMaking music isn\u2019t just about making music \u2014 it\u2019s about the whole story that goes along with it.You get to say, \u2018Hey, I did this on my porch, and I had such a good time doing it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weber, a friend of Hall\u2019s, was inspired by the idea of not being scared to be bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think she just hit the point where she started to wonder why she was holding herself back from being creative because of <\/p>\n\n\n\n

people\u2019s opinions, so she just created the album,\u201d Weber said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hall created an Instagram account a year before releasing the EP in which she posted poetry, writings and songs that she created. The account was made for the art that she would not post on a main account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI realized that there is such a freedom that comes from recognizing that your art doesn\u2019t have to be perfect to share with people,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weber and Hall have created songs together before. The pair sat down and wrote an album last fall, but it quickly turned into something that they both found fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted to see if, on a really ridiculous budget, not knowing what I was doing, if I could have fun making something, and I did,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hall is known to her friends as poetic and wise, and she also carries that reputation into the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaddy is really a young poet,\u201d assistant professor of Bible and ministry Mac Sandlin said. \u201cHer poetry is always so ambitious. She is always reaching for something is new.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandlin has had Hall in class multiple times since her freshman year. The professor said that Hall is creative in all aspects of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom This Hour\u201d is a five-song collection that Hall wrote for the exemplification of art, whether good or bad. Hall is using this EP to fulfill the statement of Walt Whitman: to implore and explore the world of not caring what others\u2019 opinions are of art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can listen to the EP on Spotify by searching \u201cFrom This Hour\u201d by Maddy Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Junior Maddy Hall released her own Extended Play (EP) album titled, \u201cFrom This Hour\u201d named after one of Walt Witmans\u2019s poems. Hall wrote all the songs in a five-day period…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15180,"featured_media":15021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15022,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020\/revisions\/15022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}