Over summer i re-realised my mains interests are music and performance. i felt like i wasn't actively researching enough but i realise now it was just that it didn't take the traditional formal approach of reading journals essays and books but manifested in a more holistic absorbing of information through allowing my interests to drive deep searches online without worrying about going off on tangents. I respond a lot better to listening and watching information rather than trying to extract it from an angry word heavy text document. Podcasts and documentary's about humanity history science and creativity are what seemed to be exciting me when its kind of talking about everything through the lens of mini investigations.
I really enjoyed letting myself relax into small voyages of discovery ; looking back i cant really put my finger on the exact turn around eureka moment but i think it was discovering Weirdcore. Through a ted talk from a pixelated man that turned out to be the visual artist under the alias of weirdcore i learnt about music concert back projection mapping and saw how amazingly it added to the normal music concert experience. I had been going to a lot of live music shows over summer and was left thinking they were good but i noticed they lacked any exciting visual accompaniment to the auditory experience.
Wierdcore was aphex twins tour artist every show they put on they had a different setup of multiple large screens all working together and lots and lots of lasers. His work is terrifying but beautiful and tailor made to the specific city in which they were performing. I wanted to expand on my knowledge of after effects gained in level 5 and create moving image sequences that could be projected onto performers and enhance the viewing experience.
Also I was asked to create some moving image animated music videos by a friend of a friend for some hip hop tracks that he had been sitting on. I have been collecting footage for a number of years now on a little digital camcorder and that allowed me to have an arsenal of interesting videos to start messing around with and manipulating. The process of layer layer layering up different arty bits of footage was very exciting watching new shapes and colours emerge from combining the pieces of video. I loved the freedom of it really looking into doing whatever i possibly could to these videos to make them further and further away from recognisable footage.
I learnt a lot about after effects but i also started worrying that i was spending to long with the screen so for my traditional hand drawn illustration practice i decided to explore drawing pictures that capture a lot of movement; maybe with a view to potentially scanning and manipulating into moving on after effects. I wanted to do my COP project on the connection between music and art therefore in my head the purest connection between those two it DANCE. I proceeded to draw dancers in different medium and styles all focusing on expressing the speed of movement or the multiple utterances of an arm speeding through space. I want to extend these drawings into different print process maybe layering up the same image through screenprint to imply quick movement; i want to be very experimental and loose really make the most of this final year to explore and create. Insofar as a question after the project proposal and first group discussion i think i am investigating the relationship between music and visual art how they connect, the social impact of dance? How illustration can most effectively accompany music?
I am very worried about this question being too massive and the potential avenues too vast because then I will have a repeat of last year where I ended up getting lost and bogged down then ended up writing a poor essay about not much at all but a little bit of everything at the same time.
Also I was asked to create some moving image animated music videos by a friend of a friend for some hip hop tracks that he had been sitting on. I have been collecting footage for a number of years now on a little digital camcorder and that allowed me to have an arsenal of interesting videos to start messing around with and manipulating. The process of layer layer layering up different arty bits of footage was very exciting watching new shapes and colours emerge from combining the pieces of video. I loved the freedom of it really looking into doing whatever i possibly could to these videos to make them further and further away from recognisable footage.
I learnt a lot about after effects but i also started worrying that i was spending to long with the screen so for my traditional hand drawn illustration practice i decided to explore drawing pictures that capture a lot of movement; maybe with a view to potentially scanning and manipulating into moving on after effects. I wanted to do my COP project on the connection between music and art therefore in my head the purest connection between those two it DANCE. I proceeded to draw dancers in different medium and styles all focusing on expressing the speed of movement or the multiple utterances of an arm speeding through space. I want to extend these drawings into different print process maybe layering up the same image through screenprint to imply quick movement; i want to be very experimental and loose really make the most of this final year to explore and create. Insofar as a question after the project proposal and first group discussion i think i am investigating the relationship between music and visual art how they connect, the social impact of dance? How illustration can most effectively accompany music?
I am very worried about this question being too massive and the potential avenues too vast because then I will have a repeat of last year where I ended up getting lost and bogged down then ended up writing a poor essay about not much at all but a little bit of everything at the same time.
