Common Elements In Music And Design Though you may not think of this, one of the wonderful places designers can look for inspiration is the world of music. In fact, some of you might already do this unconsciously; how many of you listen to music as you design? As a writer, I keep my headphones on when I write so I can let the music inspire me, so I imagine other creative types would find music to be just as helpful to their own work. But a closer look at how music works can really give us a sense for how its elements can directly translate into great design. If you like this article, you might be interested in some of our older articles on Website Design Trends Of 2011, Mistakes To Avoid While Designing Your Website, What Does Effective Graphic Design Do for Your Website? Advertisement Pitch (Melody and Harmony) Pitch describes what place on the musical scale a note falls. Rhythm Dynamics Dynamics in music refers to how loud or quiet a range of notes are played. Texture
Discarded Food Cans Turn Into Canvas For British Street Artist : The Salt Hide caption A lady face painted on a Lyle's Golden Syrup can. mydogsighs mydogsighs Hide captionCollection of can bodies, awaiting face painting. mydogsighs Hide caption Half of a face, peeping out from a Lyle's Black Treacle can. mydogsighs mydogsighs mydogsighs mydogsighs mydogsighs Those eyes grab you first. These can art people come from the imagination of a British artist known as My Dog Sighs, who has left a piece of art on the street for someone to find every Friday for the last 10 years. Above, check out a small sampling of some of his work. Why did you start painting faces on cans, as opposed to canvas or wood? I make art to go on the street as part of my Free Art Friday project. Where do the cans come from? It started with cans I found on the street. What do the cans symbolize to you and which kinds make the best canvas? My work is often describe as melancholic, and I suppose I work towards that. Surely you must need to eat.
The 5 Weirdest Ways Music Can Mess With the Human Brain It's no secret that many people prefer to listen to music when they work out. But music doesn't just make physical activity more pleasant -- it actually makes our physical performance measurably better. When listening to music, people are able to hold heavy weights for longer than when they're standing in silence. They can also complete sprints in smaller amounts of time and are even able to reduce their oxygen intake. This is why Rocky does all of his training in musical montages. How the hell does music do that? Similar to the time-perception effect we referenced above, one element is just plain old distraction. First, there's synchronicity. It's all in the music. Music can even make you feel less pain. And even if you're lucky enough to be asleep during surgery, there's a good chance the doctors working on you are listening to music, since most surgeons believe it improves their performance, too. "Here I go again on my own, sawing through the whitest bones I've ever knooown ..."
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Paul Simon And A Moment Of Pure Sobbing Joy : All Songs Considered Blog hide captionPaul Simon with fan Rayna Ford in Toronto. YouTube Paul Simon with fan Rayna Ford in Toronto. Paul Simon has brought joy to so many for so long, but on this night he made Rayna Ford's dream come true. It was an absolute moment of sobbing joy for Ford and for the crowd. Oh, oh, what a nightOh, what a garden of delightEven now that sweet memory lingersI was playing my guitarLying underneath the starsJust thanking the LordFor my fingers,For my fingers
instaGrok login Yellow Drum Machine | Let's Make Robots! Audiofile Engineering asked me to make a robot like this for them, to be won in a promotional contest. Yellow Drum Machine II is done now, and it can be found here. .. Notice how the robot first plays on the object it finds (or is forced to find by the angry cameraman), plays a small beat, and records the beat it plays on it. Also some videos from construction and tuning-time.. What it does? Navigate around, collect some data, avoid obstacles, until itFinds something "worth playing on" (a single isolated object or a wide flat surface that it can find an angle onto)Snakes into placePlays some beats on what it have found, and samples this, checking it has a "good sound"Based on data collected in the area, and sample just made, then compose a little rhythm, and plays this along with the sample Why? It is just made with sticks mounted very fast with a melt glue gun. Under neath is speaker and a microphone. And.. This robot is made interely without servos. At the top there is another speaker.
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