I did my design from the song Hunger by Alex Dickman. This song made me feel my own heartbeat. This also made me feel like it was halloween so I put blood splatters in the background. The lines from the heart monitor represent the heartbeat. The hearts are something I added to make the heart monitor lines look more real.
I listened to the song by Chapters and my mind was taken to an island. The idea of isolation and death, yet hope and beauty. I made an anchor holding down the island showing the weight dragging it down and the chain is the lyrics “We are all drowning.” It is a dark storm with this essence of beauty that attracts people and makes them think. There’s a crow looking into the distance and his vision can be seen through the storm which shows there’s something to look forward to. The tree represents life and the moon is shining light upon it to keep it alive.
I felt very relaxed while listening to the song “Along the Way,” by Keith Coplin. My poster come from ideas of stress and stress relievers, which include skating, and doing things you love to do. The fire represents stress as does the zombie and when you’re stressed you just feel worn out, tired, and dead like a zombie. So when I listen to the song I think of everything that stresses me out, the things that don’t, and put them into one piece because the song also is very chill.
The group, “Chapters,” illuminated myself with a perspective of a chilled entity. Classic beauty is the embodiment of the piece, “Letitkillyou.” The relaxing and ominous intensity that flows throughout the mind is a true euphoric experience. The collaboration of guitars, vocals and drums formed a moralized human that became the elaborate beast of the song.
For the song “Perfect” by Kali Uchis featuring Tyler The Creator, it has a very mellow vintage kind of vibe. My poster was inspired by the music video directly and also her aesthetic in general. The music video is very unique because it has two frames playing at the same time and two different backgrounds with lots of bright pastel colors. So I used a screenshot from the video and just put my own spin on it so that still honored the overall theme of the video and her music in general.
My artwork is inspired by the song “Letitkillyou” by Justin. In the song the word “drowning” stuck out to me the most because it felt like the word connected well with the choice of instruments playing in the background. The song felt somewhat hopeful to me during the beginning, but towards the end it felt hopeless. I decided to show a story that connects the hopefulness and hopelessness together. The story shows someone who started from the bottom and climbs their way to the top; stomping on anything in their path. All they want is to get a breath of oxygen to survive, but as they get closer to the chance of survival, they decide that they enjoy being under water. They want the depth of the ocean to consume them. In fact, they would rather journey through the life of the sea then surviving. They then can become part of the creation.
My design response was inspired by the song “The Feeling” by artist Alex Kelly. This song is filled with many interesting beats that bring strong visualization to my mind. I immediately thought of dolphins, vibrant colors, high energy, and a trippy outer space vibe. I represented that imagery by integrating dolphins jumping between a set of speakers in outer space, bright curvy lines, and implied textures and patterns.
In the song “Letitkillyou” there is a line saying “I woke up at the bottom of the sea.” I decided to visualize that imagery. I expressed that line by showing the ocean filled with silhouettes of sea creatures. I then used a bubble-letter text for the lyrics and distorted them to create an organic feel.