https://designingsound.org/2018/09/03/how-would-you-define/ Art and technique of sound design Wed, 05 Sep 2018 21:22:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 https://designingsound.org/2018/09/03/how-would-you-define/#comment-583489 Wed, 05 Sep 2018 21:22:42 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=41860#comment-583489 The image is not entirely subjective in a sense that it is completely irrelevant and can be interpreted differently depending on your mood of the day. There are more or less ‘objective’ connotations to be drawn off it. I agree that it doesn’t seem like a story because the image isn’t moving. But what you see can be interpreted in a relatively universal way.
The texture is grainy. It is blue and white. Grains remind us of stones, gravel, rasping sounds. Blue and white are cold colours that we know from water and skies. All these things are connotated and sounds that evoke these connotations will work with the image.
Actually the image reminds me of something I did 10 years ago: https://vimeo.com/14712341

]]> https://designingsound.org/2018/09/03/how-would-you-define/#comment-583362 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:40:07 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=41860#comment-583362 I’m looking for answers to the question the title poses since a long time – I haven’t reached an answer, maybe there is none, not even a personal answer.
We dig with the attempt to defining a vision, an emotion by sound alone into the territory of (1) personal appreciation / evaluation (2) individual culture and history of experiences and exposure (3) current mood (tomorrow I may have different associations) just to name a few factors that contribute to the difficulty, – With abstract textures like this the question as to what does sound do to this image (underscore, contradict, expand, focus etc.) doesn’t even exist as there is no story in there that we would generally agree about.
In sum, any sonic solution to a scene that shows only this example image would be a personal one which tomorrow I may not like anymore.

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