Final Presentation

The Project:
Translating a piece of musical composition into its visual reflection.
The final product is a 2minutes 26 seconds animated film with characteristics of the musical composition represented visually.

Credits:
Music: Marching Season(from A Celebration of Life) [first 2minutes and 6 seconds out of 5 minutes 37 seconds]
Composer: Yanni

The Process:

The conceptual design evolution process involved listening to a piece of music and converting the visuals/feelings that flashed into the mind into gestures and animating them over time to form the visual reflection of the musical theme.

The mind dissolves into and wanders through the lanes of the yonder land of the musical melody. A journey through myriad memories, introspections, deep truths and turbulences, darkness and ecstasy as one gets doused in the singular intensity of the music.


Images suspended in the blackness of the mind-flashes- visuals surfacing from the deep depths of the mind, as the mind responds to the individual components and the composite whole of the composition.


These flashes are then translated into gestures and strokes which are animated over time to form the visual reflection of the symphony.

Wording the space...

The story is about a journey...from the deep depths of sublunary existence to higher levels of consciousness -the infinite.

A faint glow…exhausted of its own light tries to escape…
Escapes from the deep darks of the waves…
Of deep turbulences…
Of the scary beneath
Between an engulfing wave and a closing exit,
The glow grapples its way up…
Towards an ethereal light ray filtering thro’ the slits of the exit

Rain of snowflakes/ice crystals on the floor covered with ice crystals.

The space is monumental… A trance like quality…Meditative…Stripped of any ornamentation of sorts…pristine and truthful.

Beams of light…healing rays…fill the space.

Water…a calm pool of water occupies the centre space.

The glow emerges out and together with the light beams, it churns a whirlpool of clouds…and a structure emerges out.

The glow finally follows the light of the infinite and gets absorbed to become one with the infinite.