How does the process of collaboratively translating shared musical works into visual form reveal convergences and divergences in participants' interpretative response, and what insights emerge through their synthesis in practice
I composed 6 instrumentals and sent out a survey asking people what they pictured while listening to each
Composition 1 Responses (as of March 25th 2026)
Like a last call last walk in
You making this in your room
Like I'm reliving a core memory as a child
Sunlight happy
A growing moment
Bagpuss
Grass
A crisp autumn day leaves falling off the trees
A scene of a flower field a bitter sweet ending after a funeral
Drudgery! A hard climb getting easier at the end.
Church
Sadness
Baby. you know what i mean.
Bittersweet conclusion
The ending of a film where a character has died or something sad has happened to them
The Beach
Minecraft gameplay
Good night
A sepia tone slow motion shot of a fine china cup falling from an table
Chess
A new beginning or fresh start
An opening for a film with a sunny field where the protagonists live a happy life until something comes for them
The first drops and big inning of a heavy summer rain on lush green land that’s thirsty and joyful to receive it.
Castles
A field and quickly moving across to see a castle
Dark grey skies. Raining. A bunch of still videos filming the world going by. A city maybe.
Echoes, but visual. Essentially, waves across the surface starting with each chord
Kids playing with the piano when teacher not in the room.
Someone walking apprehensive in a strange urban landscape feeling lost
A man alone in a room playing the piano with a spotlight on him
Water
A church with a funeral going on
Composition 2 Responses (as of March 25 2026)
Wedding
A colage of whats happened while film in slow motion
A romance scene possibly in the rain between two people who speak without words, its beautiful, but they were never meant to be, and never will, tears are swept away by raindrops. Forever longing for a future that couldnt be. And a past soon forgotten.
Emotional, happy
Childlike wonder
Walking
Amazement, feeling of love, a family
Nokia Rongtone
Walking in the sunshine
Nature
Kids growing up scenes of them transitioning into teens and then adults
Kids skipping down the road with a light breeze on a warm day.
A happy ending
Bittersweet endings, or what feels like an ending but it's not.
Clouds
A wedding scene before the bride walks down or a countryside view
Someone on a swing
Dancing
Cloudy sky
Aerial drone shot of an spring/summer forest
Memories flashing in my head of a particular person/place/day
A warm welcoming between families after the events of the film
Montage vibes, a landscape moving past a train window. Happy memories made melancholic by the swiftness of passing time
Young children playing with grass and flowers and the colour orange
Vibes of an average day. Pleasant enough but nothing much going on.
Walk in a field, calm, yellow
School assembly.
Water
Autumn leaves dancing in a whirlwind on a sunny autumn day
Summer fields on a sunshine breezy day, yellows and greens.
Flowers
Composition 3 Responses (as of March 25 2026)
Happeir times
Friends in a car, they put the song on and slowly one by one they start bobbing their heads to this song, until all of them are really into it. Like any comedy, rag tag team of people where they are in an elevator and start dancing to the elevator music.
Positive and inspired
A fresh start, reminds me of first day at school
Memories
Going to a concert
Getting ready to take on the day
Scribblenauts on the Ds
I feel nostalgic
Being with friends having a good time
Transition in-between scenes not a lot going on maybe walking somewhere
Me dancing! Love the beat, can see me toe tapping.
Driving in the car
Relaxing
Dancing
European city life
Futuristic public transportation
A montage of characters in a film moving to a new place
Nes game loading screen
Happiness
A specific time in the mid 00s characterised by frutiger aero, specifically frutiger eco imagery
2D platformer
starting my day walking to college or work
Either an advert backing music but like a fake ad in a tv show or some futuristic travel music
Someone getting their shit together. Starting a new project or journey and making optimistic effort
A car driving into a uni campus suns out and that feeling of last day at primary school before summer
It reminds me of the kindof music that plays in the background of a slideshow.
Green
Happy
People in an open topped car on a long highway living in the moment & feelings joyous freedom
Walking down a busy city street, silvers, chromes and reflections/glass?
Makes me feel happy, like dancing
Composition 4 Responses (as of March 25 2026)
Underwater scenes
Someone in their house stressed from every day life, taxes, mortgages, bank loans...they see their family and/or friends having fun in the adjacent room. No stress. No taxes. No mortgages. No bank loans. Just fun... they join in and remember that life isnt happening to them, but through them. If you don't stop and look around...
A moment of sudden realisation
Shock and awe
The end of a really good TV show
Anticipation
Opening scene of a film setting the tone
Flight! Kites and birds!
The beach
Relaxing
Time lapse of a growing plant
Neon lights
Not even gonna lie, gives the vibe of the end of the WillNE ‘I ran 1 meter but every day it double for 18 days’ so I guess i pictures someone succeeding.
The ending scene to a dystopian thriller movie
Flying
corporate meeting in an utopian society as if it was set in a parallel universe
Walking on the moon
the start of something
The bit where there was load of synth sounded like the fortnite treasure chest.(1:10) Sorry it's all I can hear now
Late evening time
The beauty in the mundane. A plastic bag dancing in the wind. A timelapse of a plant unfurling. A sleeping seal floating in a kelp forest. Daily life.
A clock moving fast and then pixels taking me to like a different place
Floating. Up above the clouds. A sunny, blue sky day.
Underwater
Driving in the city
A field of flowers on a windy day.
Introspection someone deep in thought as birds soar higher & higher into a clear blue sky
Multicolour, kaleidoscope effect
I see sunlight shining though water and colourful fish swimming around.
Composition 5 Responses (as of March 25 2026)
Last march to the ending
Someone waking up somewhere scary handcuffed to a pipe, as someone looms in another room rattling against the pipes.... or something...
SCARY made me very anxious
On the edge of my seat, uncanny
I'm very uncomfortable I feel like I need to hide
A nostalgic horror movie
Running but not getting anywhere
Evolving
Drama,tension building
Creepy face
Scary
Something dark like inside a person's mind when they are losing the plot going dizzy can't see straight
Industrial men at work with heavy tools!
Start of a concert
Scary movies
Jim henson style, Labyrinth or like Dark Crystal, sumn
Haunted abandoned factory with blood and buzzsaws all about
The beginning of a sci-fi/horror (like the beginning of a stranger things episode)
A tense 80’s B action movie scene
Something going to happen
Tension building for a thriller film scene/paranormal phenomena stuff
80s horror movie
Conflict or tension building
An old black and white film with a dark ages knight stabbing a hand drawn scene with a hand drawn Rohan beneath him in in a video game
War planes, preparation for war. Or, orcs/caves/dark fantasy
Alien zapping me up then like someone banging on pipes like the scene from night on elm street Freddy
Scary. Unsettled. Machinery/manufacturing.
A storm
Uncanny Valley, uncomfortable
Deserted decaying factory site with dampness & shadows with a sense of foreboding & isolation
Black and red, metals clinking echoing rooms, an alley under a street?
Makes me feel nervous, like something awful is about to happen.
Composition 6 Responses (as of March 25 2026)
The love scene
Epic conclusion
Death? Mourning
It makes me sad im remembering a funeral
Me as a little king being born
Flowers
Tranquillity
Church bells for a funeral
Sunday morning church goers moving towards the church service.
Vampire diaries
A cemetery in the sun, bittersweet
A sad story
A Horse
Wedding, but the bride doesnt wanna get married
A funeral scene
A 80’s fantasy game
Lay to rest
another slow motion shot, this time of a fighter jet pulling a tight maneuver with condensation clouds forming over the wing surfaces
Graveyard
something really sad
A Somber montage of a mourning family
Church/ Funeral / celebration of life
Glasgow Necropolis
Big clock chiming then like the death of someone and everyone walking or crying outside the church before ceremony
Death, literally or figuratively. End of an era. Reflective.
Church
A home move of a masquerade ball being projected in black & white to the hungover revellers
Church, graveyard, misty fog, choir.
The beginning was like a funeral. The whole thing made me feel sad.
I took the responses from the survey that I could, and turned it into this film.