Sound Through Visuals

Given the task, 'Sound through visuals', we were told to get one of our favorite songs and then use it through visual media. This source of visual was going to be a grid type of formation.

With that in place, i selected my song and i analysed it and got the tempo of how the sounds would be and what i would use to display on the grid. So first i set up a grid chart with rolls and columns as to where my diagram was to be.

Fig 1. The Grid

After i laid up the grid i then played the song and i was going to use the instruments and the base as a guide line on how i would place the line of the sound visual. The song was more of a slow starting song and then builds up on the chorus and then sets down after the chorus so i was going to do the intro and the chorus and the intro to verse two as it also builds up in that verse.

Fig 2. The Grid With Sound Movement

The sound movement was going to show the pitch or the volume the song hits and u can see clearly that the rhythm is not just steady but builds up from the beginning and then sets in at the end of the high pitch which is the chorus.

The grid diagram was a little too plain and then understanding the pitch rates for me was enough so for that, i further added bars which were going to express the bass of the song. These bars were to be placed at the bottom of the chart and were going to show that this level of a bar shows the pitch is at rate, e.g a red bar  would show that the pitch/bass is at high level.

Fig 3. The pitch bars

With all that i placed from the beginning and analyzing the song and expressing it through this visual, all together final project was shown below. Atleast with first of site one can see that the line can correspond with the bars and can see that his part of the song would be high and this part low etc.