I first began working on the "Shapes for Sound" theme last year in February, for Create-a-Thing-a-Day month.
I have, as long as I can remember, visualized music and any types of sound. Sounds take on shapes and color, independantly from the sound, what is producing it, or what it signifies. I learned a few years ago that this is synesthesia. I also "see" colors with letters and numbers, tastes, odors and touch.
I'm really quite interested by Gojira, a French death metal band. This group plays with a very rich, complex sound texture that I find immensely fascinating. So naturally, quite a bit of my work has been focused on capturing certain aspects of their sound.
Here, I was working on visually capturing the sound textures that occur around the :20 mark of the song Backbone. I worked in india ink, scanned the drawing and then overlayed a Gojira concert photo into the composition.
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