#4- Visualization and the Final Activities!
How do we See Music? Such a strong core of making music lives in auditory experience. However, our comprehension and sensory understanding can be heightened by the inclusion of visualizations. My inquiry blog focuses on the connection between music and emotion. In one study, this connection was observed with animated images created to represent both sound and feeling. While there was natural variance amongst people, there were also strong similarities found across cultures—this helped to explain how and why we can share emotional experiences through music despite language or cultural barriers. Image by shutterstock After reading and viewing this example in my text set, I would like my students to create their own sonic visualizations. The two platforms I used for this are Songrender and Renderforest . The former program shows the music or sounds as waveforms, and the user can manipulate the colors of the background and waves, the height and thickness of the waves, and any surroundin