Brighten Your Day Beats

Levi Schaudt, a freshman at Conifer, has been producing music for 10 years, using at-home and official recording studios to distribute his voice and the messages he writes in his songs. His music can be found on multiple platforms, including Bright! or @brightonthatbeat on Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple, YouTube, and Amazon Music, where he has released numerous albums.

Schaudt, also known by his artist name “Bright!,” began his music career young. His father, Dennis Schaudt, was in various bands since before Bright was born, and is currently in a band titled “Bleed the Vein.” Schaudt began releasing in 2020 with the help of his dad. His dad is his booking, release, and overall manager.

“He’s everything for me,” Schaudt said.

Schaudt records at his in-home studio, and at various recording studios such as Side Rail Recording Studio run by his friend. Schaudt often records at both, depending on how he feels that day.

“It helps me wind out, it really does. Music’s always been a big part of my life since I’ve been around it for so long. It’s just a way to escape,” Schaudt said.

His music-making process is sitting down and putting down whatever notes and beats he feels like. Sometimes he receives beats from other artists, incorporating them into his own music.

“If I like it, I’ll release it,” Schaudt said.

Schaudt’s music consists primarily of rap and R&B, a “more chill hip hop, but less energy basically, something that someone would want to listen to while they’re doing homework or laying in bed, trying to go to sleep,” Schaudt said. “I’m a really versatile person, though.” He’s also made trap metal, and one of his songs, “Diminished,” was recently submitted to LoboTrax’s music corner.

Right now, Schaudt is ranked in the top 10 artists of Colorado’s underground, which is a type of music outside the practices of mainstream music culture.

“I started because I always felt like I could go somewhere with it, you know? It’s just how some people have an interest in doing something. I have an interest in making music. It’s that kind of hobby that anyone would have,” Schaudt said.

Schaudt writes music for various reasons, but his main motivation is to get his voice heard and spread his message.

“I feel like anybody has a voice nowadays. It’s important that people have their own opinions about things. People have certain opinions about me, and that’s fine, I enjoy that they do. My goal is to make sure that their opinions about me are at least, “Okay, he makes music, I respect him.” I want people to understand what I’m doing this for, what my message is. That’s my goal,” Schaudt said.

Recently, he released a song titled “(ain)safe2tell” as a SoundCloud exclusive. This song is about his experience with false Safe2Tell reporting in school. One of Schaudt’s friends, freshman Jackson Eos, heard of these experiences and helped Schaudt with his music by critiquing it. They both claim that after Schaudt’s song was released, the number of false reports Schaudt was receiving had dropped.

“Most of his music is more relatable,” Eos said. “It’s stuff that happened, and I’ve been through it with him.”

Schaudt wants his work to be well-known throughout the school, and his approach is to allow people to discover his music. Last year, he often went to people and showed his music to them, whereas this year he’s gone for a more mellow approach, posting links and letting people discover his music on their own. Using this method, (ain)safe2tell] has received over 130 monthly streams.

Currently, he has a few shows planned out in the next few months One of them is going to be in Evergreen, however, he and his dad have not selected a venue yet. They plan to use some of their future shows as fundraisers for programs like Toys for Tots and Autism Awareness. Through these shows, Schaudt aims to build a name for himself as an artist who helps others.

“That song gave people the idea of “what the hell are we doing?” Why are we doing this? We’re here to learn, not be against each other. We’re here to get help, we’re here to grow up, we’re here to become adults, basically. That’s that message I’m trying to get out,” Schaudt said.