Music Mosaic

The song I chose was Greyhound by Swedish House Mafia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBRKSIj2tMc

Artist's Statement:

When listening to Greyhound, I kept hearing a heart-beat, the sound of human life connected to this slow constant building that reaches it’s climax and then breaks itself down to start all over.  The images represent that gradual shift. The colors on each change as the rectangles build bigger and bigger. The dates at the bottom represent times in my life where I felt like something new had started, that I was building upon something, where I had a new beginning. I decided to include the dates, almost outlining my current life story, because of the reading and how it really inspired me to think about how stories affect our lives and how when we look back at our memories, we remember most moments of our timeline in story format. It stated in the reading, “Stories are the secret reservoir of our values: change the stories individuals and nation live by and tell themselves and you change the individuals and nations.” I contemplated that as I completed my assignment. If you removed every single date from my life written on the bottom of the images, I would be a completely different person. My family would be different and the lives of those around us would also be affected.  I live by these events. I identify myself by them. Change them and you change me. Know them and you know me. The reading also stated, “Story has always been the way we explain our relationships and who were are.” This was the main ideal I wanted to represent with my images and including personal special dates and connecting that to the music with each of those dates corresponding to a new beginning in my life as well as a place for build up and climax within the music. I connected these images also to the song People as Places as People by Modest Mouse. To me this song is all about identity and a desire to know oneself and to know those around you. The reading commented several times on not being able to know someone but through their stories and their experiences. The lyrics in this Modest Mouse song repeat several times, “But we were the people that we wanted to know And we're the places that we wanted go Yeah, we're the places that we wanted to go”. This song addressed the issue of not really knowing the people around you, the places you want to be, and the sense of comfort and hominess that is found in the people around you becoming the places that you want to go. This song emphasis the importance of truly knowing the people around you and the negative side effects it can have it we let that fall away and don’t speak up and “Ask the Question” and soon we then find ourselves in a society with hardly any people we need to know or places we needed to go. As the reading says, this error in connection can be corrected though story which is something the images I created try to replicate in a manner very personal to my own life story.