UCVision Song Contest

2021 Submissions

Contents:

  • Laminar Flow, written and performed by Sayali Gove
  • Feel Your Touch, written and performed by Bird of Paradise
  • Prayers, written and performed by Jayda Hart
  • Missouri, written and performed by Phillip Otto
  • The Imposter, written and performed by Pop Music Supergroup
  • Childish (Damien Rice cover), performed by Mo Naveed
  • I Stay, written and performed by Hannah Wilson-Black
  • desolation sound, written and performed by Brandon Zang
  • this little room, written and performed by Justine Shih
  • Stronger Than This, written and performed by Natasha Rodgers
  • Do It All Again, written and performed by Allegra Hatem

 

Laminar Flow

written and performed by Sayali Gove

A song about government corruption on piano and vocals. Most of the images are of real politicians. Guess who in the comments!

Artist: Sayali Gove, 2022

Musical style, if it were an ice cream flavor: Mint chocolate chip

Most useless talent: Math

Feel Your Touch

written and performed by Bird Of Paradise

Artists: Alexander Rodriguez, 2022 – songwriter & performer; Amelia Simonoff, 2022 – filming director

Prayers

written and performed by Jayda Hart

Click here (or on image above) for video on Google Drive

Artist: Jayda Hart, 2023

Musical style, if it were an ice cream flavor: Chocolate chip cookie dough

Most useless talent: I can tell my favorite celebrities apart by their astrology charts alone.

Missouri

written and performed by Phillip Otto

I made this song at the beginning of quarantine, and the video is mostly filmed on old-school film cameras. The main camera was rented from the Logan Center for one of my classes. Missouri is an indie pop song about having a crush on someone and trying to get their attention, while thinking about all the fun things you two could do together, (like “drive to Missouri…”) etc. I hope you enjoy it! 🙂

Artist: Phillip Otto, 2021

Musical style, if it were an ice cream flavor: Mint Chocolate Chip

The Imposter

written and performed by Pop Music Supergroup

“Music is incapable of expressing anything but itself” – Igor Stravinsky

Artists: Curtis McMackin (2021, rhythm guitarist, composer), Noah Cohen-Harding (2021, drummer), Rowen Glusman (2023, singer), Alexander Rodriguez (2022, lead guitarist)

Musical style, if it were an ice cream flavor: Rainbow sherbert

Most useless talent: Confusing people with references to obscure media.

 

Childish (Damien Rice Cover)

Performed by Mo Naveed

My music is what happens when a metal-head chills out and finds an acoustic guitar he really loves. Obligatory favorite quote; “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

Artist: Mo Naveed 2021

Musical style, if it were an ice cream flavor: Ben & Jerry’s Half Baked

Most useless talent: My left pinky bends 180 degrees backwards.

 

I Stay

Performed by Hannah Wilson-Black

Hannah Wilson-Black is a singer-songwriter and avid recycler from the Washington, D.C. area who devotes her spare and not-so-spare time to writing poetry, creative non-fiction, and fiction. Hannah also writes blog posts and interviews for UChicago’s Program on the Global Environment. She was lucky enough to attend a Beth Nielsen Chapman songwriting and performance workshop in Nashville in the summer of 2017, and as you can hear, she has been unable to get the country twang out of her voice ever since.

Artist: Hannah Wilson-Black 2023

Musical style, if it were an ice cream flavor: Reese’s peanut butter cups ice cream

Most useless talent: I can make a very realistic horse noise.

 

desolation sound

written and performed by Brandon Zang

currently in need of easy + quirky recipes to impress other people with and convince them i can cook even tho i cant

Artist: Brandon Zang, 2022

Musical style, if it were an ice cream flavor: any ice cream that doesn’t contain lactose lol

Most useless talent: cracking my finger knuckles very loudly

this little room

written and performed by Justine Shih

a song about covid times, inspired by me going to Hallowed and getting sad

Artist: Justine Shih, 2021

Musical style, if it were an ice cream flavor: Moose tracks

Stronger Than This

written and performed by Natasha Rodgers

As someone with a background in classic music (piano, flute violin), this is the first time I have written and recorded an indie song, but I had a lot of fun. Hope y’all enjoy.

Artist: Natasha Rodgers 2023

Musical style, if it were an ice cream flavor: A classic with a funky twist… cookie dough idk

Most Useless Talent: None. All my talents are useful yo

Do It All Again

written and performed by Allegra Hatem

Artist: Allegra Hatem 2022

Musical style, if it were an ice cream flavor: Cookies and cream

Most Useless Talent: I can name all 50 states in alphabetical order in under 30 seconds.

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