#Task 1
You received a sound. Now visualize the structure -not the atmosphere!- of the „song“ which you can recognize. Therefore, you don't have to be a musician.
When you listen caretully and again and again, you will be able to detect certain rhythmic and melodic patterns.
Assign graphic elements (bars, lines, ...) and arrange them in a composition which makes sense (Horizontal? Vertical?) and is comprehensible by 'outsiders'.
Format: DIN A2 landscape format
Tools: Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Indesign
Colors: Color-code certain instruments/sounds
#Task 2
Once you understood the piece of music, make a video of it.
Therefore, import the sound file into a video software and translate the sounds you hear into visuals. Use typographic means only (text, punctuation, numbers, maybe lines).
No illustration, photos, video footage nor diagrams, please!
Format: Square (1080x1080 px)
Tools: Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Apple Keynote
Colors: Do the visuals in black & white, do not use other colors nor solid gray tones. (Gray may occur when fading in/out, on movement, by transparency.)
#Task 3
Take one still/situation from the video and build a poster out of It:
Transform the time-based composition of the video into a spatial composition and simulate the space on the flat surtace of the poster.
Format: DIN A2 landscape format
Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D, Rhino,
Colors: Do the visuals in black & white, do not use other colors nor solid gray tones. (Gray may occur by transparency.)
#Task 4
Now, forget everything about what you ve done betore.
Close your eyes and listen to the sound again. Listen again and again. Translate the piece of sound into a story.
You could assign the acoustic elements to actors, the movements/developments to actions, the characteristics of the sound to characteristics or the actors/actions.
Or let the acoustic atmosphere inspire you to write a text about it.
Format: DIN A2 landspace format, margins: top 35mm, bottom 50mm, left and right: 35mm.
Tool: Adobe Indesign
Type: Helvetica Regular, size: 18pt, leading: 22pt, 3 columns (margin between: 10 mm), left-aligned
Printing color: Black (on white paper)
Thanks!
Many thanks to Mr. Wucher for this special journey in this course.
A project with different tasks and each of them had a new challenge that each of us had to overcome.
I would also like to thank all the participants of the course. It was just a very nice experience to work together with the international students. Every time it is again a nice experience!
Thanks to all. :)
