Week 3

(exercise) Create a composition that is based on a simple contrast, like big/small, long/short, one/many, etc.

(references)

Agamemmnon, Koichi Sato

Turn Off Your TV Sets, Close Your Magazines. Eiko Ishioka, Motoko Naruse

Shigeo Fukuda exhibition poster, Shigeo Fukuda

Not What I Had in Mind. Tsunehisa Kimura

Evening of Asakusa Opera, Shigeo Fukuda

Noodle World. Chae Byung-rok

Dress of Japan "Seisei-an", Koichi Sato

In the Park. Kentaro Nakamura

Future of Media, Tokyo Pistol

Cover of Typography Today, Helmud Schmidt

Week 2

(exercise) Using dots and/or lines, create a rhythmic composition that responds to this clip of Deconstructing Rap.

(references)

Chaka Khan interview and drum performance

Oenone, an excerpt of a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Various Blue Note record covers

Week 1

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Adrian Frutiger

(designer)

(exercise) Using letterforms, create two visual compositions that respond to this clip of Lenoard Berstein's "What is Melody?".

(references)

Chopin's Etude in D-Flat Major

Animated Musical Visualization of Chopin's Etude in D-Flat Major

Musica Viva posters by Josef Müller-Brockmann