What sound was that feeling?
We've all heard the saying of minor sounds sad, major sounds happy. But there is more to feeling and sound than that.
A slow, falling progression can feel like sinking into a memory, while a sudden key change can hit like a rush of excitement. Cadences decide where we land, some wrap things up neatly, like a deep breath after a long day, while others leave us hanging, like a conversation cut short.
| This follow series presents my personal interpretation of how a musical concept can be connected to human emotion & experiences.|
Counterpoint:
Anticipation:
Suddenly, the notes on the score looked like people. Tiny heads, round bellies, leaning into the next moment before it fully arrives.
It made me think: we don’t truly meet people at one fixed point in time. The connections overlap, anticipate forward and suspend backward, take root before we even realize. There’s no single second, no exact minute, no definitive hour that marks the beginning of knowing someone. It’s funny, too, because bar lines themselves are a measure of time.
You don’t meet someone the moment you face them and exchange words. Maybe you first met them in a crowded street a year ago, unknowingly brushing past. Maybe you met them in the scribbled graffiti on a bathroom stall. Maybe you met them in stillness when you watched them play piano in an airport, minutes before you ever knew their name.
There is no better word to describe this feeling than the musical concept of anticipation.
| This Max patch is a vocoder that transforms your voice into a musical expression of feeling. As you move through chord progressions, it becomes a way to tell a story, letting emotion guide the sound.|
| This Max patch takes an inputted letter, converts it to an ASCII value, and maps it to a frequency, generating sound through the oscillator. Depending on the letter the user enters to express their feelings, a unique sound is produced. |