Sound and Vision

Evaluating Exercises

The first task was to listen to a song of choice and create a list of objects that the track evoked. I chose to listen to DJ Shadow's 'Midnight in a Perfect World', the work I produced was primarily based on shapes and patterns that I associated with the night. This was the first time that I had ever drawn from music, I found the exercise challenging however it broadened my way of thinking in terms of mark making from imagination and drawing the unseen.

 

'Colour fields' was one of the most expressive exercises as it asked to simultaneously listen to a song and draw the colours that came to mind. I took to the task with a painterly approach as I found that it gave me freedom to be abstract and fluid. The factors that I will be taking away from this task and into the development of my work will be the associations made between music and colour, and the power that colour has to depict a certain mood or atmosphere.  

Developing our own unique way of annotating music proved to be an exercise that helped me develop my current theme of the composition of patterns and shapes. I chose to annotate the rather quirky and psychedelic song 'Sidewalk Serfer Girl' by the Super Furry Animals because of the unusual instrumental changes, and 'California' by Joni Mitchell because of her high pitched voice that translated into florescent cut outs. This task asked for a very imaginative mind set which allowed me to develop a unique composition of patterns, therefore creating an individual visual spectrum of sound and an artistic approach to how music is written.