as a testament to my occasional inability to see the forest for the trees, i was so caught up in the
idea of my music box cylinders and the ways i could bring that to life on the screen through crazy 3d stuff or analog rotations etc etc, i totally failed to recognize the simpler, clearer and more concise musical visuals i'd already been creating: sheet music! it took my whole class to point that out to me in progress critique. whoops. a lesson i think i'm going to keep learning over and over again until i finally hope i get it: simple can be enough. i don't have to keep pushing and worrying that it doesn't look like i've "done enough." so when i brought my typographic composition into after-effects and brought it slowly and gently onto the screen word by word, i was fretting that it looked like i had just thrown it together, and thinking about all the complicated things i should do to it to make it look more "done," tyler and my classmates were reassuring me that it was actually a reasonable solution, on its own.
from a thing like this:
to a thing like this:
especially with (and this is the part that i'm most excited about at the moment) my sound design.
i realized that i have enough parts of speech to go up a scale from "do, re, mi" all the way through up to "do."
i. am going to turn gertrude stein's poems into melodies! based on their grammar! i'm working now on figuring out how to impose rhythms, (perhaps based on syllables and punctuation?) and i'll be trying out lots of different timbres because i'm not sure if i should try to still reference music boxes or if i should let this be a different but still related experience?
either way, i'm actually really excited about this project, and i just hope i can get it from the awesome-thing-it-is-in-my-head to an awesome-thing-in-real-life.
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