The relationship between math, color, and music

Math is often used to create musical compositions, with composers using mathematical principles to guide their use of rhythm, harmony, and melody.

Color is as well an important consideration for many musicians, who use visual representations of music to aid in their creative process.

Music and color share fundamental mathematical properties, such as the use of ratios and proportions to create harmonious effects. Color can be used to represent musical concepts, such as the use of warm colors to represent major keys and cool colors to represent minor keys.

https://www.davidpatchen.com/content/relationship-between-math-color-music

The linear nature of music

“The linear nature of music is closely related to the concept of musical form, which is the way that music is structured over time. Musical form gives shape and coherence to the musical experience, organizing musical events in a way that makes sense to the listener. For example, a musical piece may be structured in a verse-chorus format, with each verse and chorus building on the previous one to create a sense of progression and development.”

“How can a still image be represented with something which is naturally structured over time?”

About my work: Lost in Translation

https://itstoohardicant.com/Lost-in-Translation

It is about the loss and deviation of meaning in the transmission and repetition of language—the meticulous fixation on the exactness of grammatical phrasing and language correctness.

I used cassette tapes and a tape recorder, for which I physically modified its appearance and structure, redesigned its circuit layout so that it works in a way that approaches to the ideal effect. The cassette tapes are self-recorded with lectures I took in recent times. For the surroundings, the“English wall” wall is a delicately decorated space with posters indoctrinating good standard language put up by the English teachers. The second space is the living space of the floor management person, only few steps away from “the wall”.

As the tape blends in with its surroundings while it plays, it also gradually wears away with the knobs until the sound distorts and completely deforms eventually.

Inspiration from an abstract visual opern

This opern is purely constructed by abstract visual patterns, which means when you play it you will be in a state of improvisation. You play according to what you see, and the feelings you have for the visual patterns. This inspires me because I find it difficult while improvising to a film and to be concious of whether I am doing the correct thing. I have learned to just treat the film as if it is a visual opern, and improvise accordingly.