Music videos (Recent music videos)

Pipilotti Rist

Norman Mclaren – Begone Dull Care (1949)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8uktqgKgw0

1960s Psychedelic Art

Mati Klarwein’s painting

Recent

Videos in previous post are locked because they contain the audio files, so here are the frames for the music visualisation (promotional video) experiments.

Above are few frames from the animation, cannot put the video up yet because file size is large and compressing it effects the foggy look. So still working on it to upload it on the internet. Overall I am pleased with the animation, I don’t think I have entirely nailed the concept of ‘Acousticpohobia,’ but it is an abstract topic and I wanted to make it abstract. Hence, in some ways it works, nonetheless it is still an audio visualization and the visuals would’t have worked without the references to acousticophobia. Going back to the proposal  my design focus stated, ‘can a relationship between fear and sound be explored with visuals and audio,’ which I think I have accomplished.

It hasn’t been easy working in  collaboration, at times there were communication and time issues. I got the full audio from the collaborators very late, one week before the deadline (not exactly to plan), so much of the visuals were made by listening to sound samplers collected and test audios played by my collaborators. Once, I got the audio then I had to re-edit footage to make it work.

(Keep the volume low while watching, problems with sound )

After the last crit I have decided to design a promotional video, which is a digital product (it can be accessed online).
1. Listening to the music Chinese high, I imagined it to be like a Chinese kingdom, surreal, symmetrical shapes and psychedlic. I am inspired by Koray parlak’s photography, I imagine the video to be like this. However, in the time give finding a model and props similar to this is hard. So I have used landscape with mirror effect and as the animation progresses you can see strange face like shapes and kingdom like architecture.

Experiment video

2. The sparkling sound and repetition makes me think of magic . I even tried compositing 3D into a real video footage to expand the feeling of magic.

3.  Reflections, mirrors, jewels, geometric shapes… Immersive environment

In this experiment the spheres could build up/increase in numbers as the song progresses at a certain beat.

Inspired by Yayoi Kusama

Kusama creates ‘Infinity Rooms’. Representations of infinity through the obsessive repetition and accumulation of form characterises Kusama’s work. An obsessional imperative has driven her ‘infinity net’ and dot motifs since the 1950s. She consciously produces paintings that overwhelm the senses and obliterate the viewer’s sense of self as it is lost in a visual whirlpool of consuming form. http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/news/releases/2005/01/25/84/

4. ‘Hit the ground remix’ experiment with monoprints. This experiment is done entirely with monoprints, I like the texture created and happy mistakes with monoprints, I think the song has an earthy feel to it. This is a very quick example so I didn’t think much about the subject or what is happening on the screen, its mainly about how the technique with work.

Overall I am pleased with the end product, online version is slightly different from the printed map (  depending how things look on both of the mediums). The layout could be made better, but handling all the information and trying to re-arrange or move it slightly is a very time consuming process. Even a small change can take a long time. If I would have stayed focused on printed and interactive way of presenting these ideas I would have more time in experimenting with the layout.

PRINTED VERSION – A1 poster

ONLINE VERSION

The user can click on the green posts to find out more information about the possibilities given.

These are frames from experiments for the animation:

Intro shots with macro lens-

Animation

Above: sound waves need to be less organic.

Finally got the foggy look after days of trial and testing. Colours and consistency need working on.

These are rough story boards, I don’t have the full audio files yet (should have been, I have heard the starting), but I need to really begin creating scenes on 3D because rendering will take time. I want to do this on 3D is because people will acousticophobia see abstract shapes, but I am not exactly sure what they see, so it is best to created some things as far off from some thing real as possible. Also, its about the subconscious mind so it is a bit disconnected and dreamy.

However I have thought about what these 3D shape/objects means/suggest in relation to the condition:

- lines from sound score  explode instead of turning into a wave. which people would expect

- those music lines turn into abstract sharp  shapes, which creates an explosion (like a head has bursted)

- The pieces from the exploded hshape grow into a creature( signifying fear keeps coming back)

- chains trying to lock the fear away (struggle between the person and the fear in subconscious)

- Sucked into the real, person trying to escape but her ever he/she goes those abstract shapes appear.

My last experiment with filming for the narrative didn’t work very well, because of the weather and the location has changed, they have restored the place. So I will be filming that again indoors. Also I will probably have to change the storyboards again once I get the sound.

After changing the narrative of the video, most of the video now will be made in cinema 4d. So I need to study animation techniques, lighting, camera movement. I did look at avant-garde audio visual compositions at the beginning of the brief , still keeping those in mind, however I need to look at audio visualisation is constructed with animation for todays’ audience.

Node by Murat pak

- foggy look

- camera angle from above/below. Leading into the shot, jittering at times

- strange things are happening… surreal -deserted

- dark in contrast to light

Xylophonobia – by Misha Shyukin

- dark again… threatening

Triangle by Onur Sentruk

-glitches

- speed

-creating tention

- minimal colour palette

- abstract objects signifying struggle

- sound effects

140 dB  by Tadas Svilainis

I finally found a moving image piece about the relation of sound and body. Uptil now I didn’t think anyone has explore sound torture through this medium. This is very close to my subject and has been made very nicely.