A Spectrum of Sound
Part of a uni project entitled 'What does music look like?' It is a visual representation of my exploration into the relationship between different genres of music.
Genres- blue-jazz, red-rock, green-d'n'b, yellow-hip hop.
It is ordered so that the most abrasive and distressed sounds are at the top, and the melodic and smooth sounds are at the bottom. Details below.
It started out with these Kandinsky-inspired pen & paper responses to different genres of music. I had people sit down and respond viscerally to what they heard, resulting in a load of these pages, visual data for me to sort through.
I collated as many different marks as I could from the different genres and ordered them from most jagged marks to most smooth. As you can see, there is some sort of relationship between what genre was listened to and what marks were made.
I really wanted to simplify the final visualisation as much possible, making it less about the original marks and more about their layout. It made sense therefore to refine it, to emphasise the space they occupied.