Simplicity.....

This short animation which I came across on YouTube just uses simple lines and shapes to capture movement, even though there is no sound the animation captivates something exciting due to the speed that the shapes are moving at, the development as they evolve into newer shapes. 

The possibilty that I could take the work of Kandisky, where the shapes that he painted in his work were actually a language, a translation of the music. The possibility that a big black thick line could represent a deep long note and thin, red squiggly line could represent the sound of a short high pitched note. So, from todays lecture, this would be classed as iconography? 

(click on the title of the post to view the video)

This is some example of Kandinksy's work....

"Hearing tones and chords as he painted, Kandinsky theorized that, for examples, yellow is the colour of middle-C on a piano, a brassy trumpet blast; black is the colour of closure and the ends of things; and that combinations and associations of colours produce vibrational frequencies akin to chords played on a piano. Kandinsky also developed an intricate theory of geometric figures and their relationships, claiming, for example, that the circle is the most peaceful shape and represents the human soul" - Wassily Kandinsky. Point and Line to Plane. Dover Publications, New York.

I thought that this idea would be relevant seen as I am finding it hard to initially think of something that relates to the music. So this lateral approach to the brief will be about to fufill it!