Music Composition

Jazz is a strangely unique kind of music. Although to some it might sound like a lullaby, boring or calming, jazz has endless complexities. Because of these complexities jazz complicates the rules of art and mu...

Art by Anais Roatta Here at B-Side, your local student music publication, we delve deep into the music we love in order to understand its evocative power and cultural necessity—we celebrate music’s capa...

  Hana Bryanne released her debut album titled Dollface on September 15, 2023, at twenty years old. It was written entirely by Bryanne and produced by Carter Jahn and Maxwell Bienert. Its namesake deriv...

Hans Zimmer. John Williams.  Alan Menken: These are all composers that most people know off of the top of our heads when it comes to film scores. These men are the powerhouse of the movie music industry, and a...

While the Best Song category at the Oscars this year had an absolute triumph, with song “Nattu Nattu” winning from the movie RRR, the Best Score category seemed to fall flat in comparison to the star-studde...

Alright. Before I begin, I must preface that I am not an avid ballet or dance observer. However, in the San Francisco Ballet’s opening night performance of their newest show, The Colors of Dance, it honestly ...