Studio Practice: 1st Reflective Post

Evaluation 1 - Words and Research

I think a good start to this project is to investigate my musical self. I have read that the music you listen to actually forms your brain and therefore who you are. So therefore a start is to make a mind map of all of my influential music – my musical brain. I ordered the music how my brain connects the bands together. I also did an investigation (almost questionnaire) applying favourite songs to questions - quite an eclectic taste.

This has grown since creation...

I find that writing, language and research seem to be starting points for all of my illustration projects. I need to fully understand before I can begin. Here if I solidify who I am and create some criteria then I can begin.

I know that it takes a while for me to begin projects (I much before long investigative projects than short ones) and I am learning that this is just how I work. My works needs to have purpose, everything I make is considered and then experimented with.

At this stage I have refined my project to investigating how to visualize my top 10 bands - a flavour of musical identity.

I also thought investigating my band mates top 10 could be important especially before I decided on the purpose of this project. I could have explored the musical identity of my band.

I need to brake the barrier between words and images next. The natural way to do this for music is to listen, embody and respond to what I hear and feel.

I want this project to explore how to express music in different visual ways, through a holistic range of responses.

I think this “passion project” should combine the different disciplines that I am passionate about (singing, image making and tap dancing) as if it is a musical investigation of myself I should explore the ways that I personally respond to and communicate music.

I predict that this project will be something very different than the other artwork I have created throughout this degree. I think I am somewhat of a "shapeshifting" illustrator where each project I will respond to it in different ways and media. The element which makes the work mine is the strong use of colour.

This will be an abstract and conceptual project, very different from my visualisation of live music in COP which was quite literal, trying to capture musicians in their musical atmosphere. I think it is scary and exciting to investigate something very different and due to starting from scratch I will naturally develop my own visual language to communicate something that is ethereal and isn’t tangible.

I think that this artwork will naturally combine visuals, sound and movement. Therefore, it makes sense that it would be an installation, where people physically come to see the work and have their own sensory experience through looking, hearing and feeling.

Ideas for outcomes

-Make a paper scroll which is immersive, can physically wrap around yourself?

-Make 3D ceramic tiles of my top 10. Take photos of them. Mini patterns in a bigger holistic pattern.

-Make album covers of my top 10, perhaps including photographs of ceramics. Provide a cover which can be chosen and manipulated by the owner depending on how they feel

-Make a zine (maybe a collaborative project) where people are interviewed and provide stories about their relationship with music. Little case studies.

-Respond to these bands through expressive collage.

What do the bands have in common? What is the essence of me, my music?

-Create a colour palette for each band

-What is similar between the different bands?

-What do the colours represent (which genres)

The Doors, The Beach Boys and Elastica are on the So Young Magazine competition listing... could I combine these responses with some figurative elements and submit these into the competition?

Could my final exhibition become an installation - do they need sound with the images?

How do other people visualise sound?

Studio Practice

Wednesday, 7 November 2018

1st Reflective Post

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