PERSPEX UPDATE

After putting most of the elements onto the large piece of perspex, im not sure this can work. Here are my reasons:

The colours i have chosen to use in my work are very specific and i can't get these colours in perspex. Not having the same colours as the other posters will change the aesthetics completely and the meaning behind the posters. Each note should be replicated by the same colour so to throw in one or two odd colours wont work.

It has been difficult to cut the perspex to the sizes required, simply because the tools i have access to aren't very delicate. I think without the 'drips', the poster doesn't hve the same effect and again, the drips echo the fluidity of the music and are integral to this poster design.

All in all, i think throwing the poster in the midst of other poster that work well with each other is going to jepordise the successfulness of the exhibition and im not willing to risk that.

Yes initial i wanted it to be more tactile but this is not the most important element, the most important thing is to make sure that you can see the music and by keeping all posters digitally printed, this will be acheived.

It was a good learning curve working with the perspex, but unfortunately, it wont make one of my final pieces

animation

First small part of the newer, shorter animation to accompany my posters

perspex cont....

A look at how the perspex poster is coming on. Im pretty happy with it, although i think the glue may have ruined one tiny piece, need to try and rub it down or something. I'll be back in the workshop friday

synesthesia alphabet a - j

synesthesia alphabet: A - F

synesthete alphabet idea 2

A = vanilla

synesthete alphabet

K = liquorice allsorts

0 seconds to 1 min 15

getting there, pleased with how its looking, time to step it up a notch now though and add something that will maintain viewer interest.

any feedback would be much appreciated???

0-30 secs

v low quality but another 15 seconds added

0-18 seconds

more sketchbook realised

It seems my project may be starting to come together. a couple of 15 second clips from the song here. a lyrical section including symbols and numbers seen by synesthetes and a purely musical section

a few sketchbook pages realised

Im not sure what colors to go for. Whether to keep the musical elements the same colour or an array....im guessing they should stay as an array as thats how synesthetes generally see. I like the off-white background....more to come

This depicts 15 seconds of the song

Some info graphics about the synesthete population. 1 in 2000 people have synesthesia, can you spot the one blue line out of the 2000?...yes there are 200 lines here

some sketchbook stuff

bit more

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Mr Barnbrook said : "small things done really well are better than big things done badly".....i will bare this in mind throughout the next few weeks :0)

fmp progression

So, had a bit of a crap week not getting anywhere but then looked at a few animations that were a bit more info graphic based and have decided this would be a good route to take, after all im supposed to be showing people what the world is like through their eyes. still going to try and stick with a journey theme along the way. a very short clip of the start of the animation...you will notice the colours come when the glasses are 'on'. very raw but a start....

www.codeorgan.com

Not directly FMP related but this is quite cool. You type in a URL and it generates music based on the coding of that site......

http://www.codeorgan.com/

HEre is the 2nd animation test, manages to get the file smaller

Needs work but it think it will be cool when its worked on

A couple of animation tests that may be part of my final journey animation....

I said a couple but one file is too big to upload at the mo

FMP UPDATE...

So, my initial idea was to take a song and break it down note by note to show how a synesthete sees the word but i have come to realise that this isnt the best way to show their visions. Instead, i am going to base my FMP around one central animation. The animation will take the viewer on a journey, through different landscapes, incorporating the individual notes but focusing more on depicting how you might see different landscapes if you have sound colour synesthesia. Im definitely more confident about this approach. I will update with some tests asap

after effects....

I've been having a play with a few techniques on after effects to use in the animation of the songs bass line. I'm liking how this looks, im aware its not in time but just to give an idea......

I just cannot get enough of his motion graphics.....i keep watching them over....really love his style

http://vimeo.com/4917346

4 bars

depicting 5 notes......

The scale and brightness of the colours/shapes depicts the strength of that note in this first 4 bars

some development

I have been transferring my sketches to illustrator and blending and mixing them together to try and come out with some interesting shapes that might represent the musical notes.

I like how its going so far, and i think its effective as a square of 8 bars

progress

Some snippets from my sketchbook.

Some research i have been doing and 'mind mapping'. I've been looking at the colouring in Romanticist paintings and have found that my initial sketches look quite Kandinsky-esque, weird as i never looked at this, however this could be influenced from the Bridget Riley exhibition i have been to see at BMAG

Some initial sketches here as well, i think they have started out similar to how my hybrid project ended...perhaps this is a style that suits me?

Each individual image you see will represent one note of the song...might help you picture it a little better. I'm pleased with how they look so far, i think they will be really effective when they are made digital, given some amazing colours. More to come.....

Any feedback would be grand

Thanks :0)

razorfish

I like how this homepage interacts with you - subtle changes in the colours.....i may use something as simple as this in my animation

http://www.razorfish.com/#/home/

smiley faces

starting to decode my chosen song....just the bass to go!

interactivity....

I really want my final piece to have an interactive element, i want people to be able to create their own visuals in some way. I have done a lot of research about how to connect lights to speakers to get them to react in time with the music. For all my searching, i have only been able to see how to make one light react independently, when what i really want is for each note to have an individual light reaction. This is something i am finding very hard to work out, it seems this a very complicated thing to achieve, i have downloaded endless software that tells me it does this exact thing, when it doesn't.

Then i stumbled across this.....

http://evilmadscience.com/majors/46-tables

I think this is the closest thing i am going to get to what i want (bonus that it comes ready made!) i intend to order 8-10 boards and i want to make each board a different colour LED so people canlisten to the music and figure out which of the colours they feel represent what they are listening to. this is going to make my piece more interesting and people can really get involved in it.

research

I've been looking a lot this week at the relastionships between colours, scientists/peoples own colour codes, how they see sound as colour, researching people who have colour-sound synesthesia and collating what i think are the important pieces of information of all these bits to help me decode my own colour palette. I have relea-rnt how to read music (something i haven't done for about 11 years) and i'm really enjoyin the project so far. There is a lot of scientific language around the assignment of colours to music but im taking it all in and am hoping to be able to symbolise some of it through my final images and animations.


Roy De Maistre, 1935 - ARRESTED PHRASE FROM BBETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY IN RED MAJOR

MARGARET PRESTON'S COLOUR-MUSIC SCALE, c1917-18
A W RIMINGTON'S COLOUR-MUSIC CODE (1912)

This site has been a big help to me in learning about Isaac Newtons and various other peoples colour wheels/charts.

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~colmusic/

FMPEEEEEEEE

Love this animation by Takuya Hosogane....It has made me realise i perhaps don't need to be so note specific with my breakdown of my music choice. Also, i am thinking of basing my piece of Sneaky Sound Systems 'Pictures'......any thoughts?????

http://vimeo.com/8837024

Im wondering if this motion graphic was at all inspired by Universa Everythings 2010 new showreel?

http://vimeo.com/8930496......see if you can see any similarities in some parts (i.e. the pyramids)

FMP research

I was searching around the net for some things related to my FMP and came across this Massive Attack video.......i really love how the shapes form and re-mould into something new, you can't anticipate what's coming next....i also feel it is something i could acheive with more practice of after effect and cinema 4d......enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50L0LpXX_mg

FMP

Yet to give it a name but here is the general idea......

My FMP is going to be based on sound-colour synesthesia. This is a condition where people see musical notes as colours.

I will select a song and break it down into its individual 8 bars (or possibly 16 bars depending on how long the piece is) and each 8 (or 16) bars will be represented in a small square visual and these will be placed alongside each other on my wall space.

Each note will consist of a different colour and as this note gets repeated throughout the song, as will the colour, at varying lengths and weights to represent that part of the music, this will alow the piece to evolve effectively. Each 8 (or 16) bars will be represented using a different media (pencil illustration, oil on canvas, screen print etc)

The idea is to bring the music to life so each 8 or 16 bars will also have a taste, smell and touch sense to it, as well as the visual. For example, each section of the music will be given a 'touch', a feeling sensation so say for example, a small box, big enough for your hand to fit in, will be attached to the wall and the feeling that that section of the song creates will be in that box (so perhaps velvet or sand etc). The music will also be playing to represent the 5th human sense of hearing.

This might be quite a challenge but i think if i can pull it off it will be really effective. I have attached below how i imagine it to look on my display area (this is very crude just to help you see it a little better than i have explained it).

I intend to make larger versions of my 2 favourite 8 or 16 bars and hand these along with an animation of my coloured musical score.