Today I'm on a music-inspired design challenge from We're All Ears on the Earrings Everyday blog. Erin Prais-Hintz has inspired us to design earrings using a visual representation of a music piece. I chose Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue represented by Andy Fillebrown. The piece (along with American in Paris) has been a favorite of mine since I used to listen and dance to it in my parents' living room. I liked to do a lot of interpretive modern dance in those teenage years.
Here's the link to the YouTube video created by Andy Fillebrown:
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFF2miSQ4Zg
I am not sure how to get a screen shot, so I hope you'll watch the video.
It is something like the opening to Star Wars as you watch the notes come toward you, stretch and disappear. You can see all the notes being played as if by two hands as you go in toward the center of the piece, then ripple outward in the runs of the notes. It gave me a deeper appreciation of the complexity of the piece and how it all fits together because it allowed me to see it all at once. If I were a pianist, I'm sure I could explain it better, but I only poke at the piano using my right hand. I've never really learned the base clef, but it was fascinating to see the chords being played out visually while listening to the music.
One can start out with one idea or impression for a design in one's head and then the design evolves and changes as you try to interpret it with the materials and skills one has. Meaning: I thought I had that material in that color and I can't find it anywhere in this pile! And, oh, I forgot I had that, maybe that will work here!
So, after trying numerous materials and ideas with a few camera glitches thrown in, here is my interpretation of the visual representation of Rhapsody in Blue.
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| Rhapsody in Blue |
For more earrings inspired by these unique visual representations, go to the We're All Ears Reveal.
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