CMU | 53-330A
The object is having difficulty unrolling.
Link to Rhino File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZTsZ0Ss1UrQz-oi1Dw-ucEEFmZdM-t-d/view?usp=sharing
Link to Music:
This music tower is based around the song “Castle on the Hill” by Ed Sheeran which reminisces on his youth. I took the literal parts of the song by creating a castle and the hill, but added windows to represent looking back on your youth.
My tower was inspired by the song Golden Hour by Ruel.
The song has a lot of piano music that starts off as light notes which swell into becoming the main focus of the song, and so I wanted to create a tower that would capture the dynamic changes in tone. The song ends with airy piano notes, and so I tapered the ends of the large floating shape on top to reflect the soft end of the song. Overall, I wanted to focus on showing the warm and soft aspects of the song, so I primarily used rounded surfaces and shapes.
Here are the pieces and link to the file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gQuy4wOjfcjSV5VvFCMjzYVZWVv4un91/view?usp=sharing
My music tower was inspired by this song. It just feels mystical and free so I wanted the tower to have lots of round shapes and cylinders to it. I also wanted all the curves to have a kinetic feeling to them, as if they were dancing to the song. Overall, my focus was on the fluidity and organic representation of the song. Here is a link to my rhino file as well.
My music tower is based on one of my favorite songs called “Maggot Brain” by Funkadelic. The song goes through a series of different, unique, mismatched progressions, which happen to all make sense. The song seems like it would be made by someone out of this world, which gave me the inspiration to make a space-like, but also a very extravagant tower, with the musicians being able to choose where they want to play, depending on how they want their songs to sound.
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5WJU527RQNyMLuKecjsL8V?utm_source=generator&theme=0
I found it difficult to figure out what the correct cutting surfaces would be, but after a lot of trial and error. I was able to cut the object correctly, use its modular nature to work on a portion of the object, and replicate the cutout patterns for the entire object, as shown below in multiple images.
My music tower is inspired by one of my all-time favorite Disney songs called “When Will My Life Begin” from the movie “Tangled”. I was inspired by the realistic structure of the Rapunzel tower, but also the themes of isolation and boredom conveyed in the song, so I made my tower very tall and the focal point far from the ground.
Music tower ribbed roof design
Link to a Google Drive containing the file for the Rhino Sample: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1c3LYmQ0I-qjYRDf2aRYyLr1R0XP4LOtR?usp=share_link
I took inspiration from a Mexican classical music piece, Danzon No. 2 by Arturo Marquez.
3D quick render of tower
Unrolled faces of tower
