Drawing Energy

Collaborative Visualizing: Spring 2021

Feb 3: choose a sound, visualize it

My sound: head hitting pillow at end of a long day

Sketchbook experimentation

Ink on tabloid

Ink on watercolor paper

Ink on marker paper

Final – tabloid

Feb 8: collaboratively visualize an assigned sound

Working with Spoorthi and Jiyeon; split up the sound into three assigned parts, based on chronology and instrument

I was assigned the “second third”, which included a cymbal sound and a crash.

Jiyeon, Spoorthi, and I met up to combine our individual discoveries and experimentations into one composition encompassing the entire sound.

Music is movement, music is growth. We decided to show this dynamic nature through radial growth, and the chronology of the sound through layering.

Prismastick → Ink → Combination on newsprint

Final individual composition

Notes from class:

• “The first level of engagement is starting with what we know.”
• Cohesiveness, how can this be expressed through medium? Ink blends into ink. Music is recursive, each note is built on the previous, there is a sense of flow
• Collaboration: physicality of collaboration and layering parallels to the layering of music
• Chronology and linearity: how can the sound be shown as a whole composition, rather than a linear representation of how it is played?
• Music as a memory: when visualized, it is something that has already happened, already been completed. Memory is not linear, nor is it always chronological. Certain sounds “linger”, are an aftertaste. (Like coffee on your tongue or the middle notes of a fragrance)

Further experimentation:

Playing with composition, randomness, instinct

Starting Collaboration: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lVEVujo=/