The aim of the project is to translate classical music into a visual language by extracting symbols from it. Helping the viewer understand the depth within an art form and how it can influence another art form. Experimenting to see how music can influence a visual form and vice versa. Intriguing the human senses to actually feel rather than just seeing or hearing; creating a sensory experience.
Relating the classical piece; Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, to how we long to achieve certain things in life and the pleasure we feel even if we are close to achieving them or see them within our reach. We may even take these longings to our graves and perhaps we are given something better for it in the afterlife instead or perhaps it may keep haunting us there as well. This uncertain and dream-like situation of longing and hope is sometimes what gives us a purpose and keeps our drive to keep going alive.
The design aim is to translate the symbols in the piece into visuals, step by step, to describe the journey one goes through in the effort to achieve something.
Life Phases of the Poppy Flower:
Blooming
Wilting
Seed pod
Material Drawing
Image 1: Bud phase of poppy symbolizes the first interaction of the composer with his lover
Image 2: Blooming phase symbolizing the time he met her at a ball where his love was in full bloom
Image 3: The wilting phase symbolizes the time doubts started filling the composer's mind about his lover being with someone else
Image 4: The pod formation from which opium seeds are extracted symbolizes him trying to overdose himself on opium and hallucinating of killing his lover
Image 5: The dried seed-pod symbolizes the hallucination of the afterlife scene in which his lover comes to take her revenge
Rendered Drawing
Compositions
Textile Development
