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, 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.
