Becky's Blog

PERSPEX UPDATE

2010-05-13T03:17:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-12T18:36:00.000-07:00

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

perspex cont....

2010-05-12T17:02:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-06T05:54:00.000-07:00

synesthesia alphabet: A - F

2010-05-05T13:51:00.000-07:00

synesthete alphabet idea 2

2010-05-02T16:20:00.001-07:00

A = vanilla

2010-05-02T12:49:00.000-07:00

synesthete alphabet

2010-05-02T09:10:00.000-07:00

K = liquorice allsorts

0 seconds to 1 min 15

2010-04-27T06:51:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-18T10:51:00.000-07:00

v low quality but another 15 seconds added

0-18 seconds

2010-04-12T16:36:00.000-07:00

more sketchbook realised

2010-03-27T06:34:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-26T14:25:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-26T12:02:00.000-07:00

bit more

2010-03-24T14:50:00.000-07:00

......

2010-03-24T12:20:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-24T11:47:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-21T06:34:00.001-07:00

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

2010-03-13T16:19:00.000-08:00

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....

2010-03-13T14:35:00.000-08:00

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

FMP UPDATE...

2010-03-08T16:08:00.000-08:00

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....

2010-02-28T08:05:00.000-08:00

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......

2010-02-16T16:09:00.001-08:00

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

http://vimeo.com/4917346

4 bars

2010-02-16T15:51:00.000-08:00

depicting 5 notes......

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

some development

2010-02-16T09:42:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-15T14:50:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-04T05:14:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-04T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

interactivity....

2010-02-04T02:49:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-04T02:42:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-28T16:13:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-10T06:31:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-03T12:35:00.000-08:00

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.

Final animation (if i don't change my mind in a week!).....

2009-11-25T14:42:00.000-08:00

WIRED......

2009-11-21T09:03:00.000-08:00

The start of my final animation....only the first 10 seconds

zine inspiration......

2009-11-19T13:07:00.000-08:00

I really love this Zine by Paul Kuzemczak, titled 'abandoned chairs'

Check out the link...

http://www.magmabooks.com/content/bookshop/book.asp?disp=0&id=5342&page=1&c=&sc=55

Cheap Hotels by Daisann Mclane

'Fly by night' (Craig McCarthy) is a collection of club flyers, with doodles, hand lettering, drawings, tracings and photocopies, capturing London nightlife......

FEED NOISE NIGHT DEC 17th!!!!!

2009-11-17T13:09:00.000-08:00

Hi Sutton guys,

Its been really difficult to speak to everyone so i'm hoping you might get to read this if i don't see you.

The Matthew Boulton lot are really keen to get us involved in the FEED NOISE night in December, and need to know what we can help out with.

The night is at The Factory (the old Medicine

Bar, Custard Factory). This is 3 floors, we are on the ground floor, fashion on the middle floor and Plus Festival on the top floor.

The Theme for the night is Hierarchy and the way the food chain works. Its about mixing predators with their prey....If you look at Robs blog you will see an example of the type of work they are doing - please feel free to work on your own stuff and see Rob with about this.

If anyone DJ's or knows of a DJ that would like to play on the night, please speak to Kayne and let him know. There is no budget for a DJ so it would be done as a freebie to help us out.

If you would like to submit a Quick Time movie to be played on the night, please see Mario with this by the 30th November.

Does anyone fancy doing the editorial with Gillian? Any budding writers out there?

If anyone would like to work on photography on the night and document the night, please see Kayne.

If you know of any places we may be able to advertise the night (shops etc), again, please see Kayne.

Either see Kayne or me and i can pass on anything if you want me to.

It should be a good night and will be good for us to get involved so shout up and lets have a really good night :0)

Getting somewhere

2009-11-12T15:28:00.000-08:00

I am working on coming to a conclusion with my animation now.....looking at this as the intro......

more....

2009-11-11T09:29:00.000-08:00

Added some 3d elements.....

History of gaming

2009-11-10T06:06:00.000-08:00

I have been looking at Hardstaff's history of gaming and have really taken inspiration from it. I have produced a very basic version of it. I really like the wire versions i created earlier in the project and definitely want to keep them in my final piece. I have redrawn all of them in illustrator so they are a lot more crisp and clean. I want to look at adding small 3d elements to it and need to work on my type and would also like to look at including some hand rendered sections.........

recycling 4D

2009-11-03T08:28:00.001-08:00

RECYCLING.....

2009-10-30T08:24:00.000-07:00

Been having a think about the narrative for my reform piece and i'm going with recycling. Both of the objects i have worked with are made from recyclable material. i will explore the types of things they can be made into and create a really strong hybrid.

more messing....

2009-10-23T09:55:00.000-07:00

Another attempt to try and get used to after effects....All a bit random and a rubbish ending! Also, i have just noticed that when it is still before it starts, it looks a bit like a squooshed version of the nike tick?!?!? oops

AE REFORM

2009-10-21T15:21:00.000-07:00

So, i finally got after effects working and had a little go at making an animation. All simple scale and rotation. I had a go at adding some music to it as well. It doesn't really go with the animation but at least i now have a vague idea of how to do it.... also, its MASSIVELY RUBBISH!!!

what can you expect for my first attempt? :0)

2009-10-21T08:16:00.000-07:00

REFORMiNg....

2009-10-21T04:06:00.000-07:00

I have been playing around with the shapes in cinema 4d and trying to get used to creating in there. Here are some hybrids i have come up with. They are all the same shape but i have been looking at colours etc......

More 4D......

2009-10-20T14:55:00.000-07:00

4D fiasco's!

2009-10-16T11:03:00.000-07:00

Here is my attempt at creating my chair in cinema 4d.....its fine from this angle until you rotate it round....back to work methinks.....

rEfOrMiNg....

2009-10-16T10:49:00.000-07:00

Starting to look a little more abstract now. I have incorporated some texture into it using foil. I chose foil simply because it represents the metal of the tap. i think it looks really effective and is maybe worth considering using it in the final piece?These next pieces are more experiments, still incorporating the foil......

ReFoRmInG....

2009-10-16T10:34:00.000-07:00

So, after playing around a bit with general shapes, i went back to the original drawings of our shapes and looked at how to play around with them a little bit more......I like the line running through this piece and that there are just subtle changes - not enough to make it a hybrid i don't think but enough to get me started on thinking about how to use the two images.

I like the lines running through this design. I tried to go with the line of what i presume is the sink and offset it with the diagonal running through it. aS with above, experimental but not a hybrid.

REFORM MORE ....

2009-10-16T10:29:00.000-07:00

I like the symmetrical images, i can imagine this sort of shape being morphed into a motion graphic. I like the third image you can see, it still has that tap image and its the chair is replacing the water.....not sure this is 'hybrid' enough though. Still like it though :0)

REFORM MORE ....

2009-10-16T10:21:00.001-07:00

It was interesting combining the tap and the chair. At first, i wasn't sure how the straight edges of the tap and the curved edges of the chair would work but they did and when made to a block of colour, you would never know what the two shapes were.

These are a few of my initial ideas......

REFORM....

2009-10-16T10:12:00.000-07:00

Natasha sent some of her hybrid ideas....it was interesting to see we had produced similar things......

REFORM....

2009-10-14T09:03:00.000-07:00

Some more ideas......

2009-10-12T10:39:00.001-07:00

2009-10-12T10:31:00.000-07:00

I have started to combine my chair with Natasha's tap.

It is quite difficult as the shapes are very different but i have tried to create something interesting and different.

These are my first couple of sketches....watch this space for more :0)

REFORM

2009-10-06T10:00:00.000-07:00

So, after playing around with the Buddah mask. i have established its not great. Not an amazing shape and i don't think i can do mush with it.

So, i have settled on my dining tables chairs. They have a really interesting shape and i think it will be really fun to manipulate them and they would work well with any other shapes that people have.

Here are my 3 sketches from 3 different angles.

view from the side back

looking from the side, you can see the bumps of the seat sticking out and how the proportions work

Reform

2009-10-01T11:08:00.000-07:00

This is the object/shape i am considering using for the Reform brief. It has loads of detail and interesting shapes from the hair section, all bumpy and rippling to the sleek and long nose.

I think it could make for a really interesting contribution to a final piece with my partner, whoever that may be???

2009-10-01T11:05:00.001-07:00

Hey

Welcome to my blog....lets hope this works :0)

First day at FEED was wicked, everyone felt motivated and ready to get stuck in, was a great atmosphere and the MBC peeps are really nice.

Roll on next Thursday