2 posts tagged “music”
Right before the rainy season started, I cut down some bamboo culms in my backyard with the intent to make flutes and ocarinas once they've had some time to cure. These are not the traditional Madake variety or anything fancy like that; they're very leafy and crooked. Weeds in the garden, really (they snuck under my neighbor's fence two years ago; since then my neighbor has cut down his side of the bunch). But I figure, why the heck not? If I am in any way successful making a few ghetto-ass flutes from scratch I might give it a go with the real deal.
The root ball was a nightmare; I managed to get some roots--the prize of hardcore shakuhachi makers--on only one culm, after half an hour of careful digging. I fired up the barbecue and placed the stems over the glowing coals to sweat some of the sap out, and wiped it off (somewhat unevenly; it was dark outside when I toasted them and I was having trouble seeing the sap). They turn a very pale green in the heat, and develop a bit of mottling. Now they all hang from my rafters slowly turning a pale golden yellow. We'll see if any of them make it through without cracking.
Ideas on how to translate music visually: a video on rethinking the music video.
As mentioned in the comments below it, this is not a new idea, and one that can easily be seen in action at nightclubs. I'll grant that this one is a lot more coherent and context-sensitive than many of the visualization displays I've seen at the clubs. But I am also biased by my own experiences with synesthesia, in that I appreciate at the very least a decipherable logic behind the visuals even if I don't agree with them.
Lately I've been rethinking the possibility of exploring this through comics, in part to kick my ass on comics generally, but also to get back into really listening to music, instead of just using it to drown out the kvetching of my coworkers, which is how I usually get to listen to it now.
But for now my addled senses (I'm still sick) won't let me think too hard about new ideas. I'm going to stick to writing the script and drawing today.
