Week 6- The Mixing Screen

My computer screen is covered in rows of blue and green rectangles. On the left is a sidebar with boxes titled after different instruments. It's the mixing screen in my computer software that I use for recording music. I've been working on this new song this week. It's a sad song by a guy who was left by his old girlfriend but when he sleeps he still dreams that they are together. Because of this he doesn't want to wake up because his dreams are so much better than his real life.
The mixing screen is the screen that shows all the different tracks which have different instruments or vocals. You can turn up and down the volumes of certain instruments or put on effects for getting the right sound. It's where little pieces become something larger that other people can appreciate.
A mixing screen seems like something really simple for a designated purpose. If one digs a little deeper this becomes not only something to make music but to make people. If I had a mixing screen, I'm not exactly sure what I would be made of, or what the levels of those would be. We all, I'm sure, have different good things such as humor, integrity, work ethic, guts, and cheerfulness that we want to be turned up. Along with that we also have bad things such as hate, greed, and laziness that we want to be turned down. Every time a person does something we are making a decision on what the mix that makes us up is going to be. Watching a YouTube video instead of studying something for a class is gonna be turning the laziness nob up and the work ethic nob down. A bad mix can sound really bad and a bad person can be really miserable. It's up to us to turn the little pieces that make us up into something beautiful.