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Research & Process

Experimental

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inspiration 

 

  • Power in " Heroes " 

  • I thought it was fictional , but people do have it

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  • A clip from the show " Heroes ", sound synesthesia

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Draft idea

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  • Story(emotions) told by music

  • Four Basic Emotions (happy, sad, afraid/surprised, and angry/disgusted) 

  • Music–color associations are mediated by emotion

  • Nonsynesthetic people also have music-to-color associations but do not actually experience colors while hearing music. Relatively low-level sound-to-color associations—e.g., higher pitches being associated with lighter colors

Synesthesia

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  • Umbrella term 

  • There are others

  • Psychedelic drug to cause side effects

What color is Tuesday? Exploring synesthesia - Richard E. Cytowic

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Chromesthsia

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  • Sound to color

Idea development

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  • Sound Design 

  • Using seasons

  • Sad winter slower tempo.

  • The tempo of the piano 

  • Finish the visualization

  • Think of the atmosphere, when presenting.

Tedtalk​

What is it like to see sounds?

Sound design

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  • Look for online classes

  • Using GarageBand

  • Find books in library for beginner

Example in films

Ratatouille

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  • Besides " Heroes " displaying synesthetic, it was also in Ratatouille. I watched it long ago and didn't notice this since in animations there are included imaginary happenings. But actually Remy can hear sounds when tasting.

UPDATE

UPDATE

Idea

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  • Four Seasons( spring,summer,autumn and winter) , Four emotions

  • To show the transition of emotions and process

  • A story about 2 people, from friendship to longing relationship, nostalgic & heartbreak.

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Learning

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  • I watched several videos on how to use GarageBand to make music, I found without a plug-in keyboard the other way is to make use of the musical typing.

  • I learned a few of the keys from a Beginner's Guide to Music theory .

  • As I felt alittle confident after going through, I did practice making melodies in popular songs.

 achievement

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  • Music is hard to approach, it is different for a lot of people that's why there are so many genres

  • But I didn't learn this to make good sounding music, I want to use music to express first

  • Using based on colors and feelings each season gives 

 testing 

These two are first full tuned tracks after many tries

Hard to make 

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  • From a beginner, it is definitely hard for me to make sounds and mash-up, just because it is in a higher pitch so it sounds happier.

  • After learning just basics, it is hard to make cohesive sounds so instead, I found how to make basic melodies.

  • After making so many tracks, I am still unsatisfied. Instead of sticking to a piano as the main sound I should use other instruments and make use of Garageband potential.

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Instruments

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  • Not only the key range is important, so is the instruments

  • I still use the piano for my musical type but I changed the tempo & instruments that I thought was fitting

  • The top picture is the last track I made & bottom is the first season track I made

  • For summer the notes are shorter and higher they consist of the same key range

  • As for Winter, there are groups of ranges & higher notes with long reverb sounds like ice.

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Visual

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  • I made 2 video clips as the visual aid for soundtracks

  • One is to mimic the colors you will see when you have chromatic senses ( Made in aftereffects)

  • And other is feelings for soundtrack drawn into a short animation ( Made in photoshop )

REsearches

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