Visualising Sound - Digital development

At this stage I was trying to develop the concepts that I recieved the most positive feedback for, still aiming for a screen printed outcome.


Below was well praised once completed, as it relates quite closely to the 'Hipster style' design which is very popular at the minute, but even though I do agree that i like the way it fits together, I also don't just want to copy a style of design that is popular and have no relevance between the visuals and the song genre.

Further experiments with the layout of the same structure, by overlapping the different voices would possibly create some interesting visuals once the design is screen printed, as it would layer certain colours so all would still be visual. This would highlight the fact that this pattern shows individual elemets of the kit which are all being played simultaneously.

However it is a little overly complicated and would make it pretty difficult for the listener to clearly follow the song. 

Next I was playing around with the rotating groove idea that I explained in the previous post.

By separating and laying out the pattern like this allows the different elements to be seen more clearly, the general aesthetic of this layout works a lot better with the visual concept. However i still feel like this isn't the best way to represent music, it is a little too uniformed and reminds me more of a design that you might see on a design for Philips electronics or Samsung or something more electronically orientated. 

i also was messing around with possible ways of connecting this piece together to make it more like an infographic that people could follow. However i also have come to the conclusion that many of the infographics and ways of graphically representing data are very hard (if not impossible) to follow, but yet they still work really well a both visual and informational pieces. 

Applying the same visuals to a more DNA style design, these all work to some extent but they all seem like they are missing something. however I don't want to add extra visuals in just for the sake of it, i like the space that is produced and want to utilize this. 

 By taking the original pattern that I have produced and altering it slightly I have created a more patter orientated design  which works well at being tiled. it creates a strong and unique visual element which I think could lead to some interesting outcomes especially when screen printing onto various stocks and materials.

 i then wanted to see if I could make it into more of a busy pattern which could be layered but this has resulted in a bit of a confusing piece which then takes away from the structure I worked so hard to produce originally.

However I have got some more positive feedback about this design but that is mainly down to the visual aesthetic rather than the structural relevance of the brief.

Again I have just been trying to experiment with ways of presenting the shapes and patterns I intend to use

This is the final piece which I have spent most time on and think I am leaning more towards, the pattern I originally created to represent the different elements of the drum beat are repeated as if reading a piece of music, but instead of music notes, it holds unique shapes for each voice on the kit.

As there is 132 bars overall in this track I have used colour to show the changes in sections on the song... for example verse to bridge to chorus.

I also believe that by doing a repeated pattern would actually eventually allow you to apply it to more formats, album covers, merchandise etc...