Author: z.bannister

So I love making music right. But I also love my parents. And they really want me to go to college to study business. Which is cool I wanted to go to college anyway. Buttttt they reallyyy wanted me to go to THIS college. And honestly this school doesn’t really tend to any of my interests. Since about October I’ve been releasing music on Soundcloud. Check it out https://soundcloud.com/zionbannister/did-it-again

But anywayyy, I recently found out there’s a music industry club here. So I go to one of their meetings. It was advertised as an internship panel with current and former Baruch students. I thought I would get a lot out of the meeting but honestly it wasn’t very helpful. The panelist all seemed so sad and depressed. And they just kept talking about their rejections and failures. I guess it was supposed to inform you about the real world music business. But it honestly wasn’t very informative, I just left with negative thoughts about the music industry. I would like to go to another club meeting and see what its like. Hopefully I can find a community to share my music with and learn from here in Baruch.

When I wrote my monologue I honestly didn’t think I would end up at Baruch Voices. I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it but since I was missing an attendance day anyway I said “why not?”. I ended up enjoying a lot of the performances. Some of the writers were really creative and entertaining. The performances included rapping, poetry and storytelling. There were a few memorable performances but one  especially stood out to me. It was a girl telling her story of being judged because of her skin color. And how people assume her intellectual ability because of her race. She talked about shocking people with her beautiful writing and her high grades, and how proud she was to be herself.

A couple weeks ago I went to the general interest meeting for the Baruch Radio club. Music has always been a passion of mine. I’ve played the saxophone since elementary school and I want to learn more about music production. It was cool to see so many students interested in music, I didn’t expect that from a business school. The club members all seemed friendly and very knowledgeable about their departments. There were DJs, producers, sound engineers, musicians, rappers, and singers. I was most interested in the production department. The production department works in the recording studio and schedules time with student artists. I want to learn more about making music so this seems like a place I’ll be spending a lot of time.