Visualising sound - visual research

After a trip to the library, and talking to some peers about my creative challenge, it was suggested that I check out the books below, The Data Flow books are full of detailed and creative examples of infographics which have really helped me generate some ideas for accurately visually portraying the structure and physical pattern of my chosen songs. 

I have been looking at such designs to try and get influence on both the actually way that I would accurately re create the song visually but also these books were great for inspiring interesting ideas of how I could produce the piece and the possible materials that could be used.

The use of shape as a tool and using the space on a page as different measurements is a creative way of forming accurate infographics while also forming really cool visuals which result in pretty attractive outcomes

Colour is a tool which I could possibly utilize as a visual representation of sound, it has been used in many examples of music visualisation, to show different, velocity, tone and pitch, but i believe it would be more difficult to use it when trying to visualise rhythm.

As i have a good understanding of pattern and rhythm in music as i have studied the drums for most of my life, and i am quite able to work out and apply what rhythms are being used in individual songs. For this reason I feel I will probably focus mainly on visualising the pattern and rhythm of a song rather than the song as a whole, this way i can create a more concentrated and  accurate representation of the rhythms structure.

I still really enjoy the visual result of using colour in this fashion, however  the outcome of this brief is a printed one, and in this instance I very much wanted to apply the designs to different materials and be a little more experimental with the production process, therefore I am going to take this opportunity to use screen print to produce my outcome, therefore i will have to use limited colours (maximum 3 - more realistically 2). which results in colour being quite redundant as the main infographic tool. 

The production stage, I also came accross some pretty interesting production processes or possible stocks and techniques I can use. However by screening my final designs it will allow me apply it to series of different stocks and materials to come to some sort of conclusion of what aesthetics both fit the series I will create as well as each individual design linking nicely to the song it is visualising.  

I am currently aiming to wards some form of tracing paper print, this is mainly because I really like the aesthetic it creates, especially when interesting patterns are applied. It is something for me to try out and experiment with anyway.