Animation: Experiment with Graphical Notation

For this experiment, I have mixed pre-recorded sounds into an abstract rhythmical piece.

Appreciating sound artefacts by showing the dominant shapes and colours.

Graphical notation made through reduced listening of the cooking track.

Storyboard drawn with consideration of the graphical notation.

Outcome: Making a spontaneous free form animation with the audio wave structure in mind is more effective in capturing the feeling of movement than storyboarding.

Animation inspired by the graphical notation

• Mix and match each audio stems with a representative visuals. 
• Repetition makes point of reference which helps to express ideas effectively.

Visual Music Practice: Cooking from Brenda Christie Muliawan on Vimeo.

Oskar Fischinger's Visual Music

Oskar Fischinger's animation the movement of forms and the rhythm of the music echoes each other. This symbiotic flow arises from the interaction of colours and energetic movements linked to Fischinger's psychological states.

Fischinger's structural workflow:

• analyse a piece of music.
• breaking it down into time components.
• do the drawings separately from the music to create a visual composition.
• as a result, synchronisation is done entirely on its own.

Kreise (excerpt) by Oskar Fischinger from CVM on Vimeo.

Sources

• A credible documentation of Oskar Fischinger's Biography from Center for Visual Music: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger/
• William Moritz on Oskar Fischinger and Music: https://vimeo.com/13793156

KinoManual Experimental Workshop and Synthetic Sound

As major contribution to the development of my practical, the workshop has exposed me to the process of direct-on-film animation and Norman McLaren's synthetic sound.

Process of synthetic sound:
-drawing on the audio side of a film strip
-different shapes generates different sound

I have learnt that the queer aesthetic of direct-on-film comes with spontaneity and versatility of the mind. I felt more engaged with my thought when I do more and embrace the sensation of movements in free form animation. This humble pursuit preserves the organic quality within visual music.

Gestalt and Josef Albers' Interaction of Colour

How do we perceive and interpret forms & colours in mind?

Constellate: Perceive in terms of patterns rather than individually. Create a relational structure of the simply objective and turn them into a sensed natural phenomena.

Colour Intervals and Transformation

Transformation concerns colour intensity and light intensity showing equilibrium between contrast and affinity. By stepping up and down, it creates a special effect of transparence called film colour. 

Colour interval

Middle Mixture : Intersecting Colours

From the top - spatial illusion through connection and separation.

Last two - illusion of volume called fluting effect.

Spacing and relation between similar colours

Free studies with 3 colour stripes

The Bezold Effect

A method in which the colour combinations can be changed entirely by adding or changing one colour only.

Bezold Effect

Free Studies 

Practically, colour application has physical attributes of shape and size. Variations these inherent properties and other factors - recurrence and placement - are taken into account in the overall effect of their interactions. Hence, unlike notation in music and choreography in dance, colours' shapes and sizes does not necessarily directly related to tones. It is a more complex natural phenomenon which should be investigated in a qualitative manner through experimentation.

Failed attempt of free studies - No focus

Free studies with music: Redbone by Childish Gambino

Free studies with music: Fantômas by amiina

Mouse Click

Doors Opening and Closing

Quantity

2 basic quantity questions:

size - extension in area

recurrence - extension in number

"Both measurements concern predominance and emphasis. They establish weight in space - and weight in time."

Quantity (animated to Get It On by T. Rex)

Exploring Quantity in Circles and Squares

Exploring Quantity in Rectangles

Investigating Movement as Gestalt

Examining Barthes' the 'diction of language' in music in which 'body' performance plays an important part in creating gestalt; merging the theories of form with the making process of objects to create a sensed natural phenomena.

Learning Points

• Performance: Variations of timing and spacing give a different nuance to the new image formed.
• Intuitive trial-and-error with spontaneous movement repeatedly done to create the desired effect (personal agreement of what is aesthetic).

Translation and Rotation

Vibration