Hearing With Your Eyes A sensory experience, not a logical experience Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian Visual music is a sensory experience, not a logical experience. Imagine listening to Beethoven and thinking how the French horns sound like your grandmother’s car. That type of thinking uses the wrong part of your brain …
Visual Music is Not Music Visualization Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian Imagine a percussion piece. All drums, nothing else. Then the arranger adds in a piano. But, instead of letting the pianist explore the range of the piano, the arranger has the pianist track the drums note for note, beat for beat. …
What are the corollaries between visual and audio music? Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian Audio music does not translate directly to visual music, no more than a drum composition can dictate the piano solo. Yet, there are corollaries between many elements of musical composition and visual music. What follows aren’t rules but …
Playing Live Giving visual musicians instantaneous control Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian Most visual art is art is created and then viewed. The painter finishes the painting and then you view it. The film maker finishes production and then you view it. This creates a separation of the consciousness of perceiving the …
The Language of Visual Music Crafting a vocabulary and grammar Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian We are constructing a language of visual music. This language relies on non-symbolic communication. Rather than relying on past experiences and taught words to help viewers understand our language, we are communicating through feelings and sensations. This …