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Good thing I started now!

Mon May 18, 2009, 3:03 PM
For my final project in my May term class [one class, going for a month at the end of spring semester], I'm making an afghan as an attempt at a visual representation of my synesthesia. What I've done, to limit my song choice, is to go and pick out six colors of yarn and build a playlist of [currently] 28 songs, or the number of squares that will fit into the afghan. The pattern numbers [1-7 for now] will be next to the link to each deviation.

Realistically, I should decide how big it's going to be. HOWEVER.

But depending on the song's effects on my synesthesia, the colors and patterns will be different. I can surely find that many patterns for seven-inch squares, and there's a reasonable amount of similarity between the movement of colors so that I can represent several songs with the same patterns. It'll be really interesting, I think, because I'll have a lot of squares, which means a lot of songs, and not many colors [chosen on purpose so that it won't look godawful by the time I'm done].

My current calculations are to make it around 4' x 6' [slightly smaller than a twin bed and not too big to pick up and drag along with me to places], so seventy squares. We'll see. It depends on if I do a border around the whole thing, if I border each square, or what, because that'll add rather a lot to it.

Songs are listed below, and the links next to them are to the pictures of the squares. They're liable to change, and it's almost certainly going to grow.

[And, to DA, the category of whatever/Fiber Art is no more correct than whatever/Quilting is; mine is quite possibly more correct because these aren't pieces of fabric that I'm stitching onto, they're pieces of crochet work that will be fastened together in the semblance of a quilt, but not using fabric. GAH. Please make the distinctions between your categories more clear.
I suppose I should be glad that I'm not being pegged for copyright infringement by using the titles of the songs for the titles of my pieces, since otherwise they would be called "Untitled 1-60" or whatever. But hey, titles aren't copyrighted.
/rant]

1. Dancing in the Dark – Bruce Springsteen: [link] [1]
2. Amaranth – Nightwish: [link] [2]
3. Desert Rose – Sting: [link] [3]
4. Teardrop – Massive Attack: [link] [4]
5. A Prayer For England – Massive Attack: [link] [6]
6. Canon in D – Johann Pachelbel; Raymond Leppard & English Chamber Orchestra: [link] [5]
7. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy – Queen: [link] [7]
8. Salsa Salsa – Bense: [link] [3]
9. Ghost Love Score – Nightwish: [link] [6]
10. Je fais de toi mon essential – Kamel Ouali, "Le Roi Soleil"
11. Fever – Ella Fitzgerald: [link] [5]
12. Hey You – Shakira: [link] [1]
13. Un geste de vous – Kamel Ouali, "Le Roi Soleil": [link] [4]
14. Starry Eyed Surprise – Paul Oakenfold feat. Crazytown: [link] [2]
15. Somnambulist – BT: [link] [7]
16. What do you hear when the lights are out? – Brendan Craine
17. Engel – Rammstein
18. Illusion – VNV Nation
19. Ohne Dich – Rammstein: [link] [6]
20. Gitan – Garou
21. Of Angels And Angles – The Decemberists


EDIT: So now that I've run out of time [well, sort of—it's due tomorrow morning], I've had to chop out a few songs so that I'm down to twenty-one of them. It'll be a 21" by 49" [roughly] runner-type-thing using the songs that are left above. If I work tonight, I ought to be able to finish them.

  • Mood: Sweet
  • Listening to: Engel — Rammstein
  • Reading: Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier
  • Watching: Friends, season 9
  • Eating: Strawberries and whipped cream
  • Drinking: Guava juice

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I was somehow not watching yoo! Probably from when I had to cull my watch list.
However, duly mended. ^^
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wonderful! i'm glad it's been mended. ^^

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