Music Mosaic

These pictures I’ve created share common colors and shadows.  The whole scheme is warm tones, soft.  I would say it’s a rustic pattern with dark shadows.  These colors of the pictures are what I imagined whilst listening to this song, country like and basic.   The beginning rhythm made me feel hurried, busy.  The city picture represents this riff for a city is full of rushing people.  The watch also shows this riff by demonstrating how time is ticking away quickly and there is no sign of it slowing down.  The blurred dots are my interpretation of when this fast-paced riff would be hit by these chords that felt like a mushing of the notes, blurring this image of a fast moving city in my mind.  The chords put this spurt of colors into the riff, much like the bright orange picture that blends several colors, moves them out in a burst showing how the chords take one color and explodes it.  In the song, a downward beat is created by hitting the guitar making this ‘tack’ sound.  I pictured the image of the hammer hitting the nail when listening to it; the downward motions of the hits and the sharp yet short sound that is made when contact occurs, driving the nail further as well as the song.  The fast rhythm turns into this slower riff with a very different tone to it, but still has this fly-by feeling like the mountain range passed by on the road.  This new riff contains these rolls like the mountains, ups and downs and has this softer tone of blues to it rather than the oranges, yet is still quickly.  This riff brought out thoughts of nostalgia for me, thinking of quiet moments I’ve had because this quieter section feels serene.  It brought thoughts of rainy days spent in the quiet indoors, away from the wet of outside, but still admiring the tranquility and scene from a protective window.  The water droplet picture explains this feeling.  The curtains are what I think the overall color and picture of the song is because it blends the warm rusty colors of the fast, but also the brighter, lighter color of the slow.  When taking these pictures, Dillard’s point on seeing being a verbalization, kept coming to mind.  That unless we call attention to something then it will pass by our eyes.  I never noticed what could so easily bypass my vision until I started looking for things to represent this song, then I recognized objects I’ve never offered much thought to or I began to see in a different way.  Christoph Hessel’s Public Privacy reminds me of the droplets picture I took for both represent feelings one has in a certain situation.  Mine is about a quiet moment and nostalgia, his is likewise a quiet moment, but also one of being uncomfortable when so close to other persons in public. 

Song Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmE3QaGetn4