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 …
Creating Visual Music in 4D Time as the fourth dimension in visual music Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian When we create visual music we aren’t creating in 3D—we are creating in 4D. In addition to creating in an up and down, left and right, back and forth world we are also creating …
Motion Without Sickness in Virtual Reality Smart designing can create movements without motion sickness in VR Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian Anyone who has put on a head mounted display like the Oculus has probably gotten motion sickness at one point or another. Smart designing however can create movement without motion sickness …
Am I Moving? How to create a sense of movement in VR Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian The sensation of movement in visual music is what gives the viewer a sense of rhythm and the physical sensation of being in the environment. Yet, convincing the viewer’s brain that he is moving and …
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Peripheral Vision in VR Using the corners of your eyes Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian One of the most fun design considerations for VR is how to work with peripheral vision. Most two dimensional designs focus on the central 70 degrees of your vision. That central part is where almost all of …
Screen size and design in VR How jumping in screen size from a TV to VR affects zoom and scene cuts Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian Turns out the first TV screens were really small—and the original movie screens weren’t that much better if you were in the back row. VR environments …