Filed under: Assignments, Music - final semester | Tags: acetate, bangle, bangle stack, cross stitch sheet, design, experiment, iron on interfacing, keyboard, keys, material, music, notes, pattern, polypropylene sheet, positive and negative, resin, sheet music, spotlight
These are some of the forms I came up with in response to my concept. They are all based on the keyboard, and either 52 white notes or 88 black and white notes. I will show in another post how I applied the different muscial eras to these designs.
This image fans out really nicely when it is on the wrist – but as I am working with polypropylene sheet it doesn’t translate well into the thicker material.
This image above is an experiment with iron on interfacing and acetate.
I thought about doing a stack lot of bangles – either 52 or 88.
This idea of holding the translated sheet music pattern with a bangle is something I am currently working on.
This was an experiment with resin and cross stitch sheet, or something of the type from spotlight. The resin fills in the holes – It can create this really interesting positive negative image if there is a sheet underneath. If I work more on this I will get some images up.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, Music - final semester | Tags: 20th century, acetate, Bach, bangle, baroque, bars, beats, Beethoven, Chopin, classical, composers, Debussy, Gershwin, impressionist, key, keyboard, mock ups, piano, romantic, visually, workshop
I haven’t posted much on my workshop assignment. I took some photos today of the mock ups I have been making in relation to the piano and pieces from the 5 different composers I have chosen.
As a refresher, I am doing a piece from 5 composers from the
Baroque – Bach
Classical - Beethoven
Romantic – Chopin
Impressionist – Debussy
20th Century – Gershwin
What I am trying to visually explore with these mock ups is the keyboard/piano instrument and ways that I can show the piece of music and it’s relation to the piano/keyboard.
This was the first mock up. Simply a piece of music wrapped around to create a bangle. I am looking at printing the music onto acetate and then winding it up, so you get that layered effect.
These are two types of bangle mock ups. The first has 52 parts, and the second has 88 parts.
This image is just making marks on the keys. I read a piece of music and mark which key is played. When finished it would show how many times a key was touched.
This design is based more on beats and bars. It is more complex and when translated into a full piece of music it will be very long. I think it looks really nice on.
These are four other mock ups that I am working on.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, Music - final semester | Tags: keyboard, major 6, music, sheet music, solid, sound
I have been home and picked up my keyboard and all the sheet music I am using for my Major 6 project.
So, if time permits, I want to learn the pieces that are the basis for each set of pieces for this semester.
After discussing my ideas with my music teaching mother, I now think I have a better grasp on my own ideas and where they are headed and why. The all important WHY?
I think, but I am not sure – What I am attempting to do is turn sound into a solid. Why? Because I can.
Filed under: Assignments, Music - final semester | Tags: artist, Chopin, David Helfgott, Liszt, Rachmaninov. pianist, sculpture, Shine
I have just been to a David Helfgott concert here in Canberra. Most people would know of him through the movie Shine – which is about his life.
He was wearing this shirt tonight actually. He is a very talented pianist. His concert tonight has been a real inspiration for my workshop assignment. He played a bit of this and that, some Chopin we think, maybe some Liszt and his well loved Rachmaninov. We were not sure exactly what he was playing when, apparently he likes to mix things up a bit. He made us work to figure out what he was playing.
I just googled him and found this image -
This is an image of a 3 metre sculpture which was commissioned to honour Helfgotts’ life. It is by a Coffs Harbour artist named John Van Der Kolk. It is good reference material which relates to my own work.
Filed under: Assignments, Music - final semester | Tags: arm pieces, bangles, composers, keyboard, piano
The pieces that I am wishing to create are arm pieces. Bangles you may say.
But the idea behind them, again of course relates to the keyboard and piano playing.
There will be a set for each composer mentioned in a previous post. So 2 pieces for each era – one for left and one for right. Can you see the connection?
K.
Filed under: Assignments, Music - final semester | Tags: beat, design, George Gershwin, keyboard, line, music, point, Prelude II
I’ve been looking at ways that I can visually interpret sheet music from my listed posse. This is one I am quite happy with but.. to represent a whole piece of music this way is going to be huge. I’ll work it out though.
I will try and explain this design. What I am hoping to work on is the keyboard. 88 keys need to be fit into each little panel.
In this picture I have looked at a few bars from George Gershwin’s Prelude II. I have the keyboard face with all the keys on it and I have seperated it into how many beats are in each bar in this particular piece of music. Then from the piece of music I place the notes written on the keys that are actually played and the timing in which they are in each bar. I hope that makes sense.
I traced the initially drawing and got this interesting line and point type design. Which again can be related back to a piece of music. What do you think?
This is just an image of the keyboard with the line and point design. Let me know what you think! K.
Filed under: Assignments, Music - final semester | Tags: 20th century, baroque, classical, Claude Debussy, contemporary, Fryderyk Chopin, George Gershwin, impressionist, J.S Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, romantic, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I will be exploring music from each era starting with -
- Baroque
- Classical
- Romantic
- Impressionist
- 20th Century
- and maybe contemporary
So I would like you to meet my posse for the next few months..
J.S Bach – Mr Baroque (yes he does wear Ray Bans)
Ludwig Van Beethoven
VS
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I still have not decided between the two, who will represent the Classical era? Vote now.
Fryderyk Chopin (Team Romantic)
Claude Debussy – You may know him from a little movie called Twilight. Impress him.
Finally George Gershwin – 20th century kinda guy.
