the colors and sounds of social distance
When I began this process, I wanted to find a way to translate our individual experiences and shared struggles in social distancing as we fight to control the spread of COVID-19.
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I asked family, friends, and people everywhere to send me videos of the view from their window as we all endured social distancing.
Now that I had all these videos, I needed to figure out how to translate them into music.
The videos were coming from friends and family, but also from strangers who wanted to be a part of this project and share their experience with the world.
Now it was time to process the videos.
It began with the individual analysis of the videos. Using TinEye Labs Multicolor Engine I was able to extract and identify the primary color palette in each video. For this purpose I used the central frame in the original video I received.
I narrowed it down to 9 color groups. Now it was time to turn those to music.
After I had found the overall color palette of all 28 videos I proceeded to write short music track know as loops that play with each video. The lenght of each loop and the amount of times it was repeated was determined by the percentage each of these colors represented in the overall color palette..
The loops were inspired by Horatio Spafford’s Hymn It is Well with My Soul.
Each of the 9 loops was written and recorded to compliment each other and create an atmosphere that build on the meaning coming from the color palette of each video and the hymn.
