Transforming Sounds into a Spatial Experience

The driving force behind this project is a major interest in music, its layers, and different interpretations. Through Anamorphosis, the project explores the multiple ways a song can be represented. The goal is to be able to visualize it in the form of its audio-graph and its title at the same time. A song is a structured arrangement of various “elements” and it will be symbolized as the combination of multiple pieces that make up its audio-graph thus shaping the song itself. In an abstract manner, the pieces that make up the model, resemble the idea of putting jigsaw puzzle pieces together. This is why puzzles are the inspiration behind this project. They unite the concept of a complex composite song, with the material, which is supposed to be cardboard.

The first step in developing the project was to decide on a song that fit with the theme and harmoniously united all of the ideas. In this case, it was “Jigsaw Puzzle” by The Rolling Stones. Once that was settled, its audio-graph was obtained and a snippet of it was chosen. With that as a reference, a 3D model was made to visualize the whole thing. A flat model was created first, and “cut” into smaller pieces. Those pieces were, then separated into even smaller pieces, moved around, and stretched-out from certain sides until all the desired shapes were obtained in each of the main viewing angles (front-view and right-view). The front-view displays the chosen part of the audio-graph. The right-view spells out the keyword from the title: “Puzzle”. Any other angles or viewing-perspectives appear random, messy, and meaningless.