Image as manuscript: Image 2

My attempt for my 2nd final image, I much prefer this piece as it is much more pleasant to listen to as the notes and instruments work better, I tried to take what I had learnt from the first images piece and apply them to this piece (assign each colour an Instrumental family).

please see sketchbook page 34-36 for annotated diagram and write up.

Image as manuscript

I have started work scoring and recording a musical piece using the Image as a manuscript, relating each colour into the musical equivalent (for example Blue = D , Green = C etc...). For this piece I related the number of tracks into musical bars and then composed bar by bar starting from the bottom and working upwards. I then took note of what colour related to what note and how much texture were in different sections of the images and then tried to add texture/lose texture in my music piece where needed.

Please see pages 32-33 in my sketchbook for write up.

final two images

Out of my many images I took I have Chosen two of my best images to pick between I have annotated them to help me when composing, they now show what each section/colours etc represent in a musical sense. What I now plan to do is create a few scores for the two pieces and then pick my best for my exhibition piece.

Colour and sound notes

I have been reading through an essay by Maura McDonnell on 'Visual' music and have taken notes, a lot was not relevant to what I was doing so I only noted down what was. I have also found other artists that have used sound and image such as louis Bertrad Castel, who created a light organ which played music and colour simultaneously, although Its not completly relevant This has helped my ideas evolve even further for my piece in terms of the relationship between music and colour as I now understand the relationships more, this will now help me to create a much more detailed score. I now plan to apply what I have learnt to my final piece.

Please see pages 25-29 in my sketchbook for notes.

test shots

I have taken a series of test shots (these can be found in my test shot book) for my final image, I now plan to search through them and decide which image I should use for my final image, once this is done I plan to annotate it with ideas for the sound piece.

Tutorial

Had a tutorial and have decided to no longer create a timelapse as it is not significant, I have decided to create sound for one image (a photograph I have taken myself) my idea is based upon using the image as manuscript for example, for every line there is a new bar of music/sound, the texture/layers/colours/depth of field all relate to music/sound therefor I have decided to link everything together.

Photography primary research

On the photography course I'm currently doing I had to take a series of test shots, here is one inspired by the work of Colin Prior. Here I tried to capture as much of the landscape as possible as well as trying to incorporate the sky into the piece, I then edited the colours to be a little more vibrant as a lot of Colin Prior's work uses bold bright colours.

Below is a photo inspired by some of fay Godwin's work. In Fay's photography she used black and white a lot as well as capturing big sky's, Here is a photo I recently took trying to keep to her style of work.

Please see Sketchbook Pages (-) for more photographs annotated with short analysis