Visualising Sound - Visual identity

throughout my research I have come across various ways / techniques that previous designers have used to visualise sound from a design point of view, to get an aesthetically pleasing yet accurate recreation.

Below are some of the most interesting examples I have come across as well as a link to my pinterest board where I have created an archive of visualised sounds in different formats.

Pinterest - Visualising Sound  


Laughter - By Suzana Basic

This Example by Suzana Basic is really interesting, it was created initially for a video but the collation of all these individual frames creates a really nice poster style outcome. I like the idea that all the sections are different shape and colour and when put together they kind of create a legoesque time line and is unique to the specific song / sound analysed.

Visualising Music - Maria Tsirodimitri
 

I really like the simplicity of this piece, it is focusing mainy on the rhythm of a song which I think is the area that I will aim to focus on as with my experience in rhythm and drums it is an area I have had a lot of experience in and interests me, it also focuses more on clean smooth shapes instead of sound waves based imagery.

I also really like the simplicity of this piece, with using minimal colours and a lot of a space. 

Visualiser - Matt Booth

 Another interesting concept, this uses both repeated shape and colour to represent a song, the patterns that have been created, produce a unique tie ye effect which is free flowing but still very specific to each piece. Again another good use of space.


Rhythm 

Another example of a rhythm based piece. these create some very post modernist visuals which are not there to be followed, but rather there to be observed with an audio piece, the clean lines at different lengths and weight really give the feeling of rhythm progression.

Sound Underwater

This example goes back to sound waves more that rhythm but the layout and structure of the the outcome looks really nice, the clear breaks in the audio create frames in a linear fashion which I think creates an interesting visual.

Sound Paper 

This is another interesting way of presenting sound in a visual format, this time it is 3D using paper and sound waves as the main tools, but the concept and collation of all the different colours creates a beautiful aesthetic. but i think this would be too time consuming considering the time scale of this brief.