How can I translate music into character designs in a way that remains recognizable using different principles of art to investigate how music connects to the imagination?
Breezeblocks • alt-j
(Rule of 1/3) How can I translate aspects of music into color & temperature?
Devil’s Advocate • The Neighborhood
(Symbolic object) Can I present movement and texture of sound/of a song through a character?
She Blinded Me With Science • Thomas Dolby
(Alexandra Dillon) How can the era a song was made in influence the design of the character inspired by it?
Natural Light • Porter Robinson
(Textiles) How can I present the tone/feel of a song through character and composition?
suki suki daisuki • Jun Togawa
(Foreshortening) How can I present the effect of a story in a song through a character composition?
No Song - What is Synesthesia?
Various Songs - How does music influence the horror genre (or create terror)?
Horror is knowing what it is you are afraid of. Terror is not knowing what is behind the closet door. Audio cues create the fear of the unknown, the terror that makes the horror effective. It allows the imagination to create the horror, which is where your audience tends to place their worst fear that the creator cannot perfectly tap into. Audio is powerful in the horror genre in particular, so how do different aspects of the music change the terror; what we picture behind the closet door?
Digitally Manipulated Light
Photographed Light
Mark making - how did the contexts in which music was made influence the music? (Jazz and the mob)
Multiples - Down Too Long • Holy Locust How do I take story from a song to form the story of a character?