IOL - starting with sound, abstract animation (take 2)

This week's exercise was challenging. I couldn't picture the sound, as I listened to the creaking, squeaking sound sample my mind stayed blank. So for take I worked with the rhythm of the sound to move creaky kinda shapes around the screen.

I want to get a better handle on this, so I tried again with something different. Jon Kabat-Zin, as he teaches meditation, suggests an exercise for learning meditation: being present in the moment as you listen to music and consider the space between the notes. Saint-Saën's tone poem Danse Macabre felt fitting, this excerpt is by Kevin MacLeod. Once I mapped the notes onto the screen, I  tried to visualise the spaces between the notes, they felt like echoes, falling slowly in a curved zigzag, into a pit.

The first iterations of soft shapes representing the notes felt too sweet for the feeling of the music. So as I iterated through the visualisation, I began to fill in the bottom of the space adding the soft shapes moving with the menace of attacking snakes. I'm not sure that I captured the feeling of rhythmic lightness alongside a sense of menace, but it's given me a step forward from the angular zigzag movement last week, by adapting it into the zigzag float of leaves as they fall.

This was a much more satisfying exercise and has given me much food for thought for how movement can represent the moments in between my thoughts.