CMU | 53-330A
For my first music tower, I have chosen the album Zaba by Glass Animals. The reason I designed the tower to give a medieval outlook is because of the cover art for the album, and the songs in the album going off of a time when things were less developed, but more peaceful and enjoyable with each other. The reason I chose to make a castle tower form was because of it’s accurate connection to medieval times and the representation of a less developed world.
Towers:
My music tower was inspired by one of my favorite albums/songs, Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun. Here’s an image of the album cover:
Drawing from the ethereal castle-like buildings in the image, I made my music tower tall with crosses at the top. In order to fit the playfulness of the scene, I also added a rounded shape with a ball at the top.
The Rhino file is on the class drive.
Perspective image of tower:
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Hello! The song that I chose to inspire my form was Plus tôt (String Quartet Version) – by Alexandra Streliski
The main elements I considered were that within the song there are very soft and delicate elements combined with overarching and robust symphonies. The circular nature of the song is another element I wanted to convey in physical form.
After creating my tower, which I made intentionally without complicated curved surfaces, I attempted to disassemble it and failed. The command would not go through. At this point, I was confused as to what I did wrong so I contacted our talented TA Charlotte, who helped me out a ton! We went back and forth a bit and she was able to disassemble it for the most part (Thank you Charlotte!!). My idea as to what went wrong is the use of the projection tool which I assumed transformed the object normally but perhaps messes up the commands. Not entirely sure, but glad it was mostly worked out.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R2RjIyJEIFyUgVc4FsyaB8NUudD7aLyi/view?usp=sharing
