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Alex Cherry: When Music Meets Visual Art

05. May, 2010 3 Comments

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Alex Cherry is a 24 year old designer whose pri­mary inspi­ra­tion is music. Being a music lover myself, I found this really inter­est­ing. For me, music and visual arts were always con­nected, so when it comes to inter­pret­ing music visu­ally, the whole thing gets really excit­ing. Below each art­work you have a music player (pow­ered by Groove­shark) where you can lis­ten to each song to help you get an idea of what the art­work is about. The music is pretty diverse, from main­stream bands like Depeche Mode or Radio­head to less known bands like Con­verge. We’d appre­ci­ate your opin­ion about how the sound fits the image.

Find Alex Cherry on the web:

1. Hope Leaves / Opeth

2. Miranda That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Any­more / The Mars Volta

3. When Girls Tele­phone Boys / Deftones

4. Ænema / Tool

5. Era Vul­garis / Queens of the Stone Age

6. Creep / Radiohead

7. Black Cloud / Converge

8. The Patient / Tool

9. Pre­cious / Depeche Mode

10. Lat­er­alus / Tool

11. Schism / Tool

12. Eso­teric Surgery — Por­trait of David Lynch

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  • http://www.redbubble.com/people/o0odemocrazyo0o o0OdemocrazyO0o

    Excel­lent, nice to see a good mix of music all very inspir­ing– imag­ine the dif­fer­ence if you had used top 40 pop etc lol

    Keep up the good work / tune-age

  • Cristina

    The sec­ond looks like a fun exper­i­ment in which you drop some ink on a piece of paper and then bend it so that you get some­thing almost simmetrical.

  • http://blog.TamaroDesign.com pta­maro

    …really nice music selec­tions. Great post. The inter­sec­tion of visual art and music is always really inter­est­ing. It’s kinda like “1+1=3″ where it cre­ates some­thing com­pletely new and dis­tinct beyond the sum of the parts.

    I think the most inter­est­ing aspect is the “inter­pre­ta­tion” with regard to visu­al­iza­tion and an under­stand­ing the intent or mean­ing of a piece of music. When I’ve asked musi­cians about the ‘mean­ing’ of a par­tic­u­lar song, they say things like, “I don’t think it’s about any­thing in par­tic­u­lar.” For exam­ple, I was hang­ing around with a pop­u­lar artist and when I asked about the mean­ing of one of my favorite songs, his reply was, “It’s a song about noth­ing really I guess, I just like the words together.” After more ques­tions, he did admit that it was loosely based on a story… but that’s all he’d com­mit to. My feel­ing is that he prefers to let the lis­tener develop their own under­stand­ing and mean­ing through their per­sonal inter­pre­ta­tion, which makes sense to me.