Visual Language- Drawing sounds

Here are my final visualisations of sound presented in animation.

Firework Scream

Monster Blob

Rapid Warble

Fried Egg

Dripping Tap

I definitely preferred animating the sounds to drawing the sounds static, I found it much easier to visualise the sounds moving as it seemed to have more effect and relate more to the sounds in question.

Drawing Sounds

 Here are my Sound Drawings for my 10 sounds, followed by my 5 final drawings. If I'm honest, I really didn't enjoy this project. I found it really hard to draw sounds that change and move as a still image, as I don't think my drawings really represent the sounds that well. I'm hoping my animations of the final 5 represent the sounds a bit better. I would have used more colour in these drawings, but I could not work out which colours looked right in my head with each sound when I was drawing.

(The final 5)

Oskar Fischinger- An Optical Poem (1938)

Oskar Fischinger is known for his animations of sounds. This piece starts out with each note starting out as different sized circles depending on their volume, and each fades into the distance, getting smaller, as the note fades and gets replaced by other notes. Different sounds or instruments seem to be represented by different colours and shapes. The strings at the start are circles, whereas later, the woodwind sounding instruments are squares and lines. 

The Dot and the Line- A Romance in Lower Mathmatics.

The Dot and the Line is a short animation that tells the story of a line that falls in love with a dot. I like the way the sounds chosen represent each of the shapes, for example the squiggle has a wild and unruly and fun sound, whereas the the line has a smooth sound and the dot has a upbeat bouncy sound. 
This animation is mostly about the story, however moments like with the doorbell, the sound is represented in harsh red lines. And sounds and feelings are embodied in the shape of the line. 

In this animation, I think the parts with the squiggle are the best representations of sound as image.

Disney's Fantasia (1940) Visualising Sounds

Disney's Fantasia is a good example of an artist visualising a sound in animation, using colour and movements to represent sounds.

In the first clip you can see the different shapes that represent each instrument at the start, and it becomes more abstracted as it goes on. The shapes get bigger as the sound gets louder and quicker sweeping sounds are represented by sweeping movements of colour on screen. The really fast part of the song around 4 minutes is shown by many quickly appearing and disappearing dots and beams of light, separated by the loud imposing sounds shown by large imposing images.

Fantasia also has some less abstracted elements to it, as shown here in the dance of the sugar plum fairy. Here, the song is represented by the movements of the fairies dance. When the music sweeps down low, the fairies sweep low and so on.