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Design tools like journey mapping, sketching, and storyboarding, can help musicians think about the overall “story” of their performance, and even sometimes prompts them to think about the music in new ways. Over the years, in helping musicians design their performances, we’ve asked them to:
Connect visuals to their music by finding images that capture what they picture as they play the piece. Some groups shared that talking it out in this way made them realize they were each interpreting the piece differently – and helped them come together to create something that brought each of their visions together.
Listen to a piece of music and draw what they hear. Some heard scenes, some heard patterns, some heard colors!
Draw a graph representing energy levels throughout the piece of music. Then, spend time translating the visuals they created into storyboards that mapped lights, sounds, and projections to specific moments in their piece. This created a jumping off point for the designers to begin bringing the pieces to life.
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