- MUSICAL CYMATICS
Visual Music System I used cymatics as the inspiration and basis to form each square (note). I did this by using an amplifier and putting paper with salt on top , I played each note on the piano and when the salt vibrated it moved the crystals and when settled they formed patterns. I then converted the formations into the vector images.
This is a grid showing all 8 octaves on a piano and each note of the scale in Cmajor. Each note was played individually and has it's own individual pattern.
To help visualise the grid this diagram shows where all the notes and octaves fit. The image below shows the same highlighted notes from C4.
Octave C4
Chord C7- Chord C7
- C7 zoomed
- I wanted to add further instruction to the image by introducing colour. The shades of grey for the background would indicate the tempo of the notes. The shapes themselves are coloured to indicate how loud or soft to play them.
- Cmaj7 chord played slowly and applying different pressure to each note resulting in a varied sound.
- Cmaj7 with colour to indicate how the notes should be played.
- Dm with octave played slowly with a soft (p) touch.
- Various Chords
- All notes
- ADDING MORE INFORMATION TO EACH NOTE
- To give each note more meaning I came up with a visual system which can be read alongside with the symbol for the note. So the position of the note on the octave is shown on the left with the number of squares, the dynamics with the bottom line, and lenght with the top line.
- CHORD INSPIRED POSTERS / SCORES
- PRINTS
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