Audio Drawings

Project description: each student will select a non-lyrical musical composition of their choice and visually represent it through a two-dimensional drawing.

My choice of music was Brahms Hungarian Dance No.5. This is one of my favorite classical music pieces. When I listen to the music I found there were three quite clear parts in the song, and I chose to make three different drawing – one significant for each part.

My chose of paper was mylar, because I like to work with that material. I used ink, gesso and char-kole.

The first part is soft music, but with a bit of power as well. It is much violins playing, and I thought that long brushstroke and grey color will explain this music piece very well.

The second part is the most powerful because they start with percussion instrument. I chose to illustrate this with much ink. But there are two times in this part they just play the violins and then I chose to make it a little bit lighter.

The third part was happiest so I chose to make this painting lightest. They play instruments like flutes and triangle and when they did that it felt like dots, so I made that. But they play also violin and I have illustrated that with darker lines in the drawing.

This was a fun, but a little bit difficult project. I listen to many different songs before I finally chose the Hungarian Dance No.5. I was very satisfied with my choice of music, but it took very long time for me to decide how I should show the music in a painting. From the beginning my thought was to do just ONE drawing, but I thought it was more interesting to divide into three parts. Especially when the parts are very obvious in the music piece, and I think it should have been messy if I only have had one painting.

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