[Final Project] Audio, Drawing/Painting, Identity

http://www.fastswf.com/YfE2Jxc
http://www.shareswf.com/game/35255/nutcracker-march

(either link works fine)

For my final project I have the 3 keywords: audio, drawing/painting, and indentity. I went through a lot of planning and finally decided to challenge myself by doing an all digital project. I started with the idea of "audio visual / music visualization," regarding how we see visuals through melody and rhythm. I find this an important topic to explore because many artists are often inspired by music (Kandinsky, pop art, contemporary). Furthermore, in my field observation I also found out that many adolescents enjoy listening to the music while making art. Thus, I am interested to explore the relation  between these two forms through digital media.

There are many softwares online called the "music/audio visualizer" that people have created to visually represent sound. For me I chose to "map" a music clip that is significant to me. From Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, "March" to me is the first classical music I recall. Ever since then I have developed great interest in music and have been taking piano classes for 13 years. I debated greatly whether to apply to music or visual arts for undergrad degree. Though I ended up choosing the path of visual art,  music is still very dear and important to me. Through this artwork I want to commemorate my relation with music, that both music and visual art consititute to my identity. 

I used Flash for this project. The idea is that each note corresponds to a particular color: Do (red), Re (orange), Mi (yellow), Fa (green), So (blue), La (indigo), Si (purple). Each paint drop also drops on the location same as the note on the staff. The size also corresponds to the volume of each note. I am not so familiar with Flash so it took me quite a while to figure out the procedure. The hardest part was to coordinate the drops to the music. There are still spots in the final work that don't quite match after rendering but I tried my best. In the end I combined audio and "painting" through a video that I feel best represents me.