Report on Personal Experience: Origin Fields Music Festival (2019)

This report details a student's experience at the Origin Fields Music Festival, Australia's largest New Year's Eve festival held in Perth in 2019. The report provides an overview of the event, including the musical performances by artists like Rufus Du Sol, Tyler, the Creator, and Skepta, as well as the non-musical features like ambiance, services, and food. The student shares their personal experience, including their favorite performances and the impact the event had on their appreciation of music. The report also offers an academic perspective, discussing the music industry's growth, its economic effects, and its role in cultural knowledge and social connection. The report concludes with a summary of the festival's significance and influence.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
The Event....................................................................................................................................1
My Experience............................................................................................................................2
Academic Perspective.................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Musical events and festivals is a community event which is oriented towards live
performance of singing that also involves various musical instruments based on the theme of the
event. Music theme is influenced through nationality or local and historical music and musicians
in the country. In the present time live music events and concerts are enjoying more and more
amount of popularity. The first ever rock 'n' roll concert was held in Cleveland on March 21,
1952 and after that this got highly popular and expanded to all the areas in the world (Baade,
2013). In this project report to defined an experience of an musical event Origin Fields Festival
is considered. It is Australia's largest New Year's Eve festival and has held on 31st December
2019. The event take place at Wellington Square, Perth, Australia.
MAIN BODY
The Event
Origin Fields Festival is one of the largest festival is organised to enjoy and make a toast
to another year. The event provides one of the best musical experience as it features Rufus Du
Sol, Tyler, the Creator, Skepta and Ella Mai across NYE and NYD. This is Australia's largest
new year festival and held every year on the last day of the year. Recently it was held on 31st
December 2019 and Wellington Square, Perth, Australia is selected as destination for the event
because this place is termed as heart of the city and famous. Events when organised at such
places become quite reachable for all the interested individuals. Together with this such type of
events leads to generate more and more amount of attraction which make the event popular.
At the event music that are performed by various musicians involves a combination of
folk, rock and pop sensibilities. This event become attractive because of its music and together
with this non-musical features are quite attractive such as ambiance created, services, food and
drinks. Music scene is any kind of music community, a localized independent music-oriented
community of bands and their audiences (Clarke, DeNora and Vuoskoski, 2015). The event was
available with all the musical elements such as good melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics,
timber etc. Together with this presence of various non-musical elements such as style, fashion
which was their available in the event was quite fresh and attractive for all the audiences.
In the present musical culture is shifting towards concretes, live events and festivals.
When historical context is seen then at that time consideration to music was provided less and
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means to access more and more amount of different musics were less. The event was held with
the presence of mass amount of live audience. As it was a new year feast it was made available
live for the mediated audiences. When Origin Fields Festival is considered amount of
technologies which are used to shape the event to become most successful are one of the latest in
the trend. Live streaming, Chat bots, free power bank swaps, festival data security and touchable
technology. All these technological elements make the sound in the event effective and also
consumers in the event become more comfortable and enjoy all the festival services (Cornwall,
2016).
My Experience
I was a first timer to such huge live events or festivals, before such events I only attended
some musical nights but that was not organised in such mass stage. I was finding the music
forms which were performed their quite partying and enjoyable. As the whole festival was
organised to enjoy the new year eve so all the forms like pop and others were quite loud but
mesmerising at the same time. I went their with some of my friends and I got quite influenced
form a group of people who were well aware of all the music playing their as singing all together
with the artists. Among all the musicians available in the festival my most favourite style of
music of Tyler and the song I like the most is “See You Again”.
The song sounds good to me because it reflects feelings of an individual to see his or her
loved once. As full song specifies how keen can a person become to a person who is very dear
and near to my heart. When I was listening to the song I was also missing a person whom I have
not met since 4 months. Meaning of the song was all belongs to a hope and passion to see again
someone who is loved by an individual. The song make me feel amazing and memorise all my
feelings that I have for the person I was missing quite more. Together with this my feelings to
show my emotional side got higher and I become more capable to show my feelings.
The moment when I heard the song it make me memorise all the feelings that I had in my
heart. At that night their was thousands of individuals who were travelling in the country to
attend this event. The whole event was organised at grand scale and all the activities that are
performed in the event was quite a memorable report for all of us who are present their. The
whole stage was designed and decorated to make the performance attractive (Djonov and Zhao,
2013). All the musicians choose different styles to make entry and that Arial entry of Tyler was
memorable for me. The whole concert, all the songs generate a feeling that has not generated
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before. We all friends were present their and out enjoyment and making a toast to the coming
year can never be forgettable. While all the performances was going on the whole population
present their raised their hands and started singing with them and this make my experience of
concert more memorable and special.
This event was my first experience to have an encounter with any live musical event and
after that event certain amount of changes that I experienced towards this over the years. One of
the greatest change that I have noticed is that I become a music lover and started enjoying
various concerts in different forms that are organised around Australia. Together with this I also
started listening to songs which are more meaning full and at the same time generate a feeling of
joy in me. Musical events are considered to be social events as they leads to foster a relationship
among individuals by effective communication (Rohrmeier, and Koelsch, 2012). Through music
events people meet. Coordinate, talk, share and generate a bond which leads establishment of a
social relationship.
Academic Perspective
Popular music involves music scenes, local consumers, venues such as bar, clubs that are
established in a specific city. It is available with different form of music events that are organised
at different destinations in Australia. Music industry is growing and developing at faster rate and
it leads to generate some effects on the overall economy of Australia. As events that are
organised in Australia boosts the overall economy by making the flow of money in the country
more frequent. Music events leads to generation of flow of some of the other activities like
travelling, demand for food and beverages, decorations and some services. All these type of
businesses generate profits and help the economy for development in positive manner. Music
industry is growing but together with this it is helping to generate a cultural knowledge among
individuals that are residing in a particular country (Zarantonello and Schmitt, 2013). As music is
reflection of the culture which was existed in the history and music helps that culture to be in
existence for more and more years.
The musical industry plays a important role in controlling and responding towards current
taste and preference which is supported by all the consumers. Together with this huge musical
events that takes place in Australia helps in generating knowledge of different music forms that
are available all around the world. In the present time music which provides some meaningful
content is preferred by individuals and together with this. It helps to generate authenticity of
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various culture and their historical aspects. Musical events helps to generate value for local,
trans-local and virtual scenes among general public. These music events are growing at a higher
rate and specially in the urban areas and city population is preferring to visit such events.
CONCLUSION
The above project report helps to generate importance of music and various musical
events that are organised and operated all over the nation. Music have a great influence over
economy as it is one of the developing industry and it leads to generate more and more amount
of economic transactions. Music represents culture and is helps in expressing different feelings to
different individuals. Music industry moves towards satisfying demands made by various
individuals by providing preference to trend in the market.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Baade, C. L., 2013. Victory through harmony: the BBC and popular music in World War II.
Oxford University Press.
Clarke, E., DeNora, T. and Vuoskoski, J., 2015. Music, empathy and cultural
understanding. Physics of life reviews. 15. pp.61-88.
Cornwall, A., 2016. Women's empowerment: What works?. Journal of International
Development. 28(3). pp.342-359.
Djonov, E. and Zhao, S., 2013. From multimodal to critical multimodal studies through popular
discourse. In Critical multimodal studies of popular discourse (pp. 13-26). Routledge.
Rohrmeier, M. A. and Koelsch, S., 2012. Predictive information processing in music cognition.
A critical review. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 83(2). pp.164-175.
Zarantonello, L. and Schmitt, B. H., 2013. The impact of event marketing on brand equity: The
mediating roles of brand experience and brand attitude. International journal of
advertising. 32(2). pp.255-280.
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