LO – 04 – Sound Art

Oddityviz Space Oddity

This project is a visual demonstration of David Bowie’s Space Oddity by designer Valentina D’Efilippo and researcher Miriam Quick. In the animation they created, I’m drawn by their ability of deconstructing the melody, harmony, lyrics of the original sound and re-represent those elements in a visual system.

I’m guessing that they understood and studied the music very well before they started this project and created the animation so that they were able to make the combination of the visuals and the music so satisfying for the audience.

The animation is only in black and white. Delivering the animation in such a clean style helps the audience to notice more of the harmony of the visuals and the sound. The contrast between black and white made the transformations of those visual elements, such as resizing and translating) pop out more. In this way, the audience will focus more on the correspondence between movement of visual elements and the flow of the sound.