From: Sharon Clarke <sharon@infotechcanada.com>
quoted 2 lines Ok, this may seem really far out... but do any of you imagine colours
> Ok, this may seem really far out... but do any of you imagine colours
> when you listen to music?
Only when I take drugs. I wouldn't say I'm a visual person, but whenever I
try to think about what that means I wind up confusing myself. What I do
notice when I listen to a song is my spatial imagination - basses have one
shape and position, different percussion sounds have different shapes, and
so on. So what I'm imagining with music is more like a sculpture than a
painting. With electronic music it's like one of those kinetic sculptures,
which is half machine and half pure shape. A lot of music which I like has
'dependencies' - one sound is balancing another or reacting to movement of
the first and so on. It's probably why I like generative, algorithmic
sounding stuff, I feel there are a few basic rules or principles interacting
with each other and making something musical. This is basically the same
thing I liked when I used to play with Lego.
That's fun on drugs too of course...occasionally when I've taken mushrooms
or something at home on my own and I'm listening to music I can imagine it
sufficiently well to be able to 'see' a track grow as a structure in the
middle of the room, oscillating away to itself. Lovely. It's a pity there
isn't more video stuff like this, I've only seen this sort of idea captured
(to my satisfaction) on the FSOL 'Lifeforms' video. With the falling cost of
technology and increasing integration between differnt types of media tools,
I hope there'll be more of this stuff in the future.
Anig Browl
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