STUDY #8

For my eighth and final study, I had decided to recreate a piece from the first assignment of the semester. Sentimental, I know, however it acts more as a display or exhibition of both my technical and conceptual advancement throughout the semester. Predominantly throughout all of my studies I have explored the correlation of audio and visuals, I had begun the semester with creating a ‘visual synthesiser’ the primary focus of that piece was purely surface level. So I also wanted to create another piece with the same objective, meaningless fun. However, I did need to advance some elements, such as rather than the inclusion of a keyboard, I felt that utilising a song would have a much more engaging and interesting effect upon the visuals presented. This patch was definitely one of the most difficult of everything that I had attempted this semester and thus required help from external sources. After thorough research, this creation ultimately exhibited many elements that I was unfamiliar with yet they created very interesting effects. Conceptually, I simply wanted to create something playful and frivolous, I believe that it is actually quite engaging for a sustained period of time as the colour patterns are beautiful to look at and after some time the piece actually becomes quite immersive. Like the other studies within this assignment, I put a lot of effort into the appearance such as including instructive text just to make it look much more inviting and polished. I truly wanted to challenge myself technically in a way that I have not previously, overall I am very pleased with the outcome and I believe that I have concluded this semester in success.