Minimalism Music Visualization - "In the Upper Room, Dance No.9" - Philip Glass
synaesthesia with watercolour drawing
computer-generated fractal image sourced from watercolour drawing
Visual Impression for Minimalistic Music - "In the Upper Room, Dance No.9" - Philip Glass
Visual Impression for Minimalistic Music - "In the Upper Room, Dance No.9" - Philip Glass
synaesthesia with watercolour drawing
computer-generated fractal image sourced from watercolour drawing
Visual Impression for Minimalistic Music - "Mishima, Closing" - Philip Glass
synaesthesia with watercolour drawing
computer-generated fractal image sourced from watercolour drawing
Visual Impression for Minimalistic Music - "Mad Rush" - Philip Glass
synaesthesia with watercolour drawing
computer-generated fractal image sourced from watercolour drawing
Visual Impression for Minimalistic Music - "Metamorphosis: Two" - Philip Glass
synaesthesia with watercolour drawing
computer-generated fractal image sourced from watercolour drawing
Visual Impression for Minimalistic Music - "Spiegel im Spiegel" - Arvo Pärt
I believe that minimalistic music, with its distinctive composition from repetitive phrases and shifting layers, is echoed by the mathematical ideas of fractals. Just as the great minimalistic composer Philip Glass once portrayed himself as “a composer of music with repetitive structures.” Therefore, I visualized five of my favourite minimalistic-styled instrumental music in my logical sensations of structured computer-generated fractal images. The process started with an automatic watercolour drawing while listening to each piece of music, which reflected one phrase of the music, then digitizing these synaesthesia watercolours into repeated self-similar segments at various scales.
My whole project seeks to faithfully reflect the impression of these five minimalistic-styled instrumental music.