Here is the song I chose to be my inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r45MxbG6or0
This Music Mosaic assignment was a very interesting one. It was admittedly a rather tough assignment at the start. With a weird imagination and no drawing, sketching, or painting skills, I had to figure out which pictures that I could capture or alter in a more grounded setting. Considering these limitations, I decided to use some pictures that I had taken myself and also some that I found on the internet and worked over in Photoshop. While listening to the song I chose, I really saw no narrative playing out. I noticed that the visuals that I had in my head on the first listen to Pigeon on the Gate changed after a few more listens. From the start, I thought of rather spooky mansion scenes or castles for some reason. However, after I listened to the song a few more times, the song began to make me think of classic Irish landscape scenes, with rolling green hills and castles and streams, as well as modern upbeat cities. However, none of the images I had in my head were grounded or very realistic looking, each looking as though it came from a painted storybook.
This Music Mosaic assignment was a very interesting one. It was admittedly a rather tough assignment at the start. With a weird imagination and no drawing, sketching, or painting skills, I had to figure out which pictures that I could capture or alter in a more grounded setting. Considering these limitations, I decided to use some pictures that I had taken myself and also some that I found on the internet and worked over in Photoshop. While listening to the song I chose, I really saw no narrative playing out. I noticed that the visuals that I had in my head on the first listen to Pigeon on the Gate changed after a few more listens. From the start, I thought of rather spooky mansion scenes or castles for some reason. However, after I listened to the song a few more times, the song began to make me think of classic Irish landscape scenes, with rolling green hills and castles and streams, as well as modern upbeat cities. However, none of the images I had in my head were grounded or very realistic looking, each looking as though it came from a painted storybook.
Since listening to the song got me thinking of things very old an things very new, I decided to work that idea into my images. That is why I chose to take and alter old photos by colorizing them and trying to show some piece of modernism in older and more vintage photos. I feel like this brings the old and new together in the same picture and really embodies the images I saw in my head. This song has a little bit of a darker sound to it. To show this I worked with the photos to create a little more shadow and a little less highlight by bumping up contrast or burning the images. The pictures I chose also consider the landscape of Ireland and the typical image of Ireland in their subject matter and composition. The original song Pigeon on the Gate was written a long time ago and the version that I chose by Celtic Grooves has a very modern dance twist to it. The new interpretation of the song uses a very intense beat to create a harmony that then carries the classic pipe melody on top. I decided to also make the photos also look a little less like real photos and more as though they were painted in order to exhibit the storybook idea that was stimulated by listening to this song.
It was a tough goal, to be sure, especially when I don’t consider myself a very artful person but I do think it was great to explore this area. I would have liked a little more time to accomplish this task as I could’ve gone on more hikes to capture images that I would’ve liked to include in this Mosaic. There is no story to these images as the song I chose did not evoke any story. It is merely a look into and a representation of what I saw in my mind as the music played.
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