While he pushed the door, all the people looked at him. Perhaps, this is
a musician’s unique temperament. His clothes are like the ordinary students. He
was wearing a suit with a white T-shirt. He always smiles. When he came to say
hello to others, you can see that he is a sweet and polite person. However, when
he was talking about the music, he became excited, had a lot of postures and spoke
very fast.
His name is Justin Hardin, 17-year-old. He started to do the music
around 2006 when he was 10 years old. “Lots of artists I heard I want recreate
that music on my own,” he said. When he was learning, you could see his musical
talent. He studied piano by ear, not like other people to watch notes. He can
listen to a song and accurately play it out with piano.
“I don't put boundaries on myself with
genres,” Justin said with used finger counting,
“I try to just take a lot of influence from jazz, hip-hop, classical, and electronic
to just combine it all into one, like a big mush of sound.” So it does,
his music will always bring a surprise. The listeners will be amazed to hear a
song that combines lots of different musical elements. “My music is the Picasso
of music,” he smiled and said. This is the most appropriate description for his
music. It is difficult to describe his music and what messages he wants to
express because his music is abstract, maybe it is tone of the future music.
His music has a magic power. You will hear the beginning and the end are
totally different style in one song. At the same time, you will highly praise
for his creative music.
“I feel very alone, because my and my friends make this type of music,
but people around us don’t listen to this type of music,” Justin said with his
eyes downcast. Sometimes, he puts his music to the internet. It is a good place
that he can get some good comments. “It makes you feel good when somebody likes
what you making,” he said. It also gives him more confidence to do this type of
music even though not lots of people know what it is now.
“I read a quote that ‘art is never finished, it's only
abandoned’,” he was serious and said. He was willing to listen to other people’s feedback, but fixed the music it
depends on finished or not. “If I’m in the process of still making the song, I
probably change a couple of stuffs if I trust their opinion. But I’m if I done
all the song, I’ll just try it see if I would do what they're trying to say to
another song, because I try not to spend too much time on one song. Sometimes I
have to let it go.”
Now, Justin also tries to make the videos. “When I was watching movies
listen to the sound, it is crazy because I love how they have visuals with
music, it is complete when you do that, like it is art,” he said quickly with
big smile. It is hard to imagine that add his music to the video, but he tries
it. He made a video that use visuals to act out what he was playing with beats
at same time. It looks simple, but it is wonderful because it is match every
beats exactly. It gives viewers double the enjoyment of vision and hearing.
“If it goes the way I plan, It’d be the really cool to travel:
a lot of music like play different shows, like kinds of doing DJ work, that’s
what I’m think doing.”
