Thesis Statement Revised

Thesis statement - Film, sound, design

Recently I have been filming and animating; experimenting in the realm of visual media. I've come to realize that my interests in this project is still a large work in progress, and my ending point is undecided. I am not sure what I want to create visually and conceptually for my project yet, but I am thinking about two potential options. 1. Creating visuals that are coded through means of processing. 2. focusing on a controversial topic(s) to create work generated from said idea. As for now I will still explore and experiment to see if anything sparks a newer idea.

GIF Experiments

I have created 3 GIFs that are exploratory in line art animation. I used two Gustav Klimt paintings as examples for this exploration, and I also used one of my own drawings. I also wrote some new music pieces to combine with the imagery that is contrasting in terms of mood. This is different from my previous film styled videos, and I feel that this could help lead into more opportunities for other visual content. I chose Gustav's work to play with, because he is one of my favorite artists; and when looking at his pieces I see varied stories in his work. Also this was a newer process for me to work in, so I feel that I gained a new understanding of how to create visuals without strictly relying on film. I can incorporate both in newer experiments. 

Gustav Klimt - The Kiss

this is the full song

Here is another sketch I had as an idea for this one..a butterfly progression

The second Gustav GIF is Mother and Child

Gustav Klimt - Mother and Child

full song for mother and child

My last GIF is from one of my drawings

Like You Mean It

full song for like you mean it

Love, pt. 2

This week I have explored more ideas of love by means of combing some of my pieces from last week into one video, as well as creating some newer content. I have been thinking a lot about what this word love means and why people say it to others. In my first video I included an audio clip from a voicemail I received last year with a friend saying "I love you" to me, and incorporated it with a song that is opposite in meaning to the words "I love you". My second video of the combined pieces from last week are purely based off from suggestions from last class to see how it would work. There is not an audio for this, and the videos that are combined are despair, regret, and wonder. 

Love_2

Combination

Love?

This week I have thought about our discussion..and focused on one emotion, and how to represent it in more than one way...here are 5 new explorative pieces all pertaining to the emotion of love. Here I am exploring more into lighting, sounds, colors, and forms in these short clips to emphasize other perceptions of love in a series of 5.
 

despair

friendship

lust

regret

wonder

A Darker Side To Emotions

This is a short series of darker emotions with more experiments in typographic visuals, and digital filming. I feel this is more related to my thesis due to finding more ways to experiment in film, and I will be creating much more that deals with other forms of varied visual content. I plan on making more short series involving other spectrums of emotions to explore the concept of emotions fully. All video titles and definitions are based off of ideas of Spinoza.

Cruelty: "is the desire to whereby a man is impelled to injure one who we love or pity

Pain: "is the transition of a man from a greater to a less perfection"

Love (a darker side): "is pleasure, accompanied by the idea of an external cause."

emotion studies

This past week I have been interested in creating work based on emotions. I have decided to create work based on emotions, because they are one of the biggest components to art and music. Also the most common feedback about the music I write is that my work is emotional, so I have decided to dive into studies of what emotions are from looking at different philosophies of human emotions. One philosopher McVey showed me was Baruch Spinoza and the titles are based off of some of what he writes about. My imagery is based on the way to evoke these emotions with a variety of moody pieces that incorporate my recordings of people talking or singing, machines/ technology, nature, and instruments.  The first two videos are 10 second clips, the last one is a two second video of overlapping photographs as well.

Fear

Happiness

Despair

Video series 1

Here I have two examples of visual creations, not exactly what I was planning on creating at first, but for now this is what I am thinking of currently.

My first few attempts at learning adobe premiere... I have created short videos of 10 seconds.

The end result isn't exactly what I want, but I am still working on figuring out the issues. But for now here are some examples of visuals for experimental ambient sound.
 

Chap

Lydia

Video Idea?

I've been working on an idea like this for a while. Possibly thinking of either creating a video with these lines gradually moving across the subject with the subject moving too, gif image of the line moving, or many smaller videos with this concept....I do have some ideas for sound to go with this as well...

Wandering In Sound w.i.p.

For my project I am writing a series of music with plans of creating visuals to go along with the music. My work currently is still in the early phases of writing and figuring out new compositions with each passing day. I want to play around with a topic I have been researching lately which is synesthesia to show the colors that are found in music. I have ideas of making videos involving colors of the synesthesia chart, and possibly pairing that with abstracted animations to give a visual to the songs. Moving forward I want to create music that dabbles in experimental, classical, and electronic genres; as well as trying many forms of visual exploration.
 

Classical & Research

Today I am posting a video that is related to my thesis idea..."An Optical Poem (1938) - Classic Short Film".


Link for - "An Optical Poem (1938) - Classic Short Film"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=they7m6YePo

This video is important to me, because I've been thinking way too much about how to create a colorful visual narrative without it becoming so strictly mapped out according to Scriabin's color chart. After seeing this I plan on doing more research into this realm of music visualization...my end goal is to have a contemporary visual creation of music. This is simply just more research for me and things to consider when going into this project...

Alexander Scriabin: Color chart

Alexander Scriabin was an avant garde musician from the late 1800's to the early 1900's who came up with a color system for musical notes. This chart I have posted above is his color chart to show what colors he assigned to which note. His color system is based on his own personal experience with synesthesia and mapped it out accordingly. We should be looking at this, because this is one perception color to music from an individual with synesthesia. To me this is a possible guide for when I create color visuals for my own written pieces; another piece of important research to my project. 

Here is an example of two chords being played. Thinking of ways to combine colors & seeing how they will overlap when played as chords.

W.I.P.1

creating & dreaming

Art in Symphonia

As of late I am working in the realm of music; a passion of mine from a very young age. Through this I am going to create an album/ collection of music with visual discoveries of color & abstracted forms present in my written music through means of synesthesia studies.

Synesthesia will be a part of my research as well as looking into the studies of Joseph Schillinger.

Through these two sources of inspiration I plan on writing music that explores different genres of music; playing with pitch and tone in order to find different colors and forms found in the music I will write. I want to create both visual & melodic pieces of art through means of music exploration.

preliminaries

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All seminar projects should have a title (always subject to change), and a 140-character (tweet length) summary (also may be changed). Optional: three or four #tags, possibly worked into that tweet-length summary, that help orient the work to larger (social, thematic, political etc) concerns.

For Tuesday: Have titles and 140-character summaries; do the readings; discuss current movements in your projects/initiatives.

This post is tagged with everyone's tag (or "label"), so you can see your name in the "posts by" list on main blog page, right column.

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The two readings I assigned are these

Cameron Tonkinwise
design thinking, yet again, because, maybe, it could actually be useful, perhaps even necessary, given every thing
June 12, 2017

Christina Wodtke
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Design Thinking
August 26, 2017

Cameron Tonkinwise is a smart, energetic and prolific writer about design (sustainability design, transition design). I monitor his writing and links to others' writing via @camerontw.
he is also at academia.edu.