I was inspired by the music box gif on the giphy website. I want to have the main melody which is To Alice. Throughout the whole composition, there are three main components. The first one is the verse, which in context includes when the music box is turned on and winded and plays beautiful tunes. However, it follows the distortion. I introduced the distortion by varying the speed of the melody so that it sounds like rewinding the music. To go with the music, I found a gif on giphy to present to the audience the music box being played.

It is convenient that the gif is already creepy in some ways because it facilitates my chorus, which I use to portray the increasingly broken music box. Composition wise, I added lower end melody using different samples as the original one, as well as changing the beats a little to give the composition piece more variety. As for the visuals, I introduced noise into the giphy to simulate chaotic features. Moreover, In the second half of the chorus, I use heavy electric guitar sound to push the music to a peak. At the same time, the visuals are even more chaotic and by using feedbacks, I was able to convey the emotion of fear.

Next is the bridge. To contrast with the chorus, I slowed down music and added some bass. In the visuals, chaos are gone, instead there is slowed and smooth distortion I created using blend function. 

I think the performance could be improved by a more cohesive use of visuals, sounds as well as midi. I These would facilitate me in telling the story since the audience won’t be distracted by the incoherent movement between different parts of music or visuals. I have pasted the YouTube video here: