Music Mosaic

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I chose Daniel Waples Hang Drum solo for my music mosaic piece.  The music in the song is very bright and colorful as this inverted steel drum is played with a person's hands.  The song also never slows down or takes its time.  It is sprints through the whole piece and because of that I chose to photograph paths that are taken every day rather by people or nature.  I also chose to saturate the color of all of the photographs very heavily due to the brightness of the instruments used in the solo.
One film that influenced me in this piece was O Brother Where Art Thou.  In O Brother Where Art Thou it was shot during the spring and the grass was a very vibrant green.  They wanted the film to be set in the Midwest during the dust bowl.  To do this they edited all of the footage afterwards to de-saturate the grass and other foliage.  I wanted to the opposite affect on my photos so I enhanced the colors to give a brighter and happier tone to all of the pictures. 
Some of the paths that I have used in my mosaic are not paths that humans normally take.  People don’t want to walk through a river or in a gutter.  I chose to use these paths because of the basicness of the song.  The song is recorded in an underground concrete tunnel and has a very open sound.  The hang drum that he plays has no electric amplification either.  All of the sounds in his song are natural but the instrument itself is different and unique.  I wanted to be able to capture this idea of humanity living with nature instead of man trying to battle nature.  None of the pictures have people within the frame.  I wanted the viewer to feel isolated while looking at these pictures and for the viewer to focus more on the form, color, and composition without any distractions. 
The pictures do not look completely natural due to the over processing of the pictures.  I wanted to do this to make the viewer look over the picture again to figure out why it doesn’t look natural just like the song has nothing incredibly different but you want to continue to listen to it because there is just something different about the song.