Can you see music? Design Mind contends that “Eyes Can Hear”…
Visualizing Imogen Heap’s song First Train Home by frogdesign.
From an interview of Imogen Heap on her collaborative proceses and visualization of music in Eyes Can Hear at design mind.
Oh! Also? Click the link to see whole song visualization.
My sister accused me of “stealing” Depeche Mode from her; she got into them first and I was the late-comer (at 10). Sometimes duelling versions of ‘black celebration’ would volley through the wall that divided our rooms. She told me I wasn’t sophisticated enough to like them; that I likely didn’t even know what “a question of time” was about. I studied the lyrics, I evinced a meaning, and came back to her. As far as I could tell, it was about someone wanting to save someone else from falling in with the wrong crowd. RIght? My sister scoffed and shook her head. “That’s not what it’s about at all.” To this day, every time I hear the song (which I heard last night during the band’s set at lollapalooza) I’m always looking for that elusive secret meaning that somehow my sister just knew.
In this age of technologically mediated interactions there is a parallel push toward collective action and experience.
A cynic might say that now that Oprah’s doing flash mobs their revolutionary power is undermined, but I believe this is still just the beginning…
I dare you not to smile a bit while watching Oprah’s new season kick-off party. (And good luck getting the song out of your head…)
