These images were created in Photoshop. They were originally pictures that i had taken of objects. (Faces, Flowers, Trees) The concept behind arranging these abstract shapes the way they are, is that i wanted to represent the shape of the wave form of the hit i was hearing in the audio. So i looked at each hit of each instrument once sampled to audio in Ableton, and copied a rough outline of the shape of the wave form. (The bass is specific to that, Drums (kick snare toms hi hat) the textures are on their own). Then i arranged the lined images of what is now the Concept art to a specific 'Audio Semantic' waveform i was hearing. So all the different parts that make up the audio are referenced, independently in an abstract fashion. Hopefully this will further progress and realize the semiotic, suggestive and phenomenology aspect of the concept.
Once in Photoshop, i added a layer and began drawing outlines and highlighting the silhouettes of shapes to abstract them. Some of these were filled and some not.
The next part was to take line representations of the remaining shapes instead of having constant tones, turn them 90 degrees to achieve. In doing this the original image was then erased, and this is what was left.
I tried using colour again on these ones and a pure white background. With minimalism in mind, the white juxtaposed against the colour accentuates what is darker. Which i like, however i still feel there is to much colour contained within these images. I will be toning this down and hopefully creating a feeling of 'less is more.'
I prefer these designs to the first ones. It feels like it has more direction and is closer to the aesthetic i had in mind.
In terms of semiotic intent, if the shapes are moving in time with the music, they already have a lot of persuasive information within them. The lines can represent lengths of 'Hit' and altering amounts of lines 'how loud the sound is.'
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