This is a collaborative work bringing music to your ears and art to your eyes. Students combined auditory and visual art to create this piece. In music class, third grade students composed and notated an eight measure melody. They played their compositions on their recorders. Students discovered their composition’s melodic contour and created a line to be translated into a piece of visual art.
In art class, students scaled their lines onto a large paper and explored color theory. Each measure is represented by a color change. Above the line, students made tints of intermediate colors they mixed together to show the higher pitch. Below the line, students mixed their own shades and tones to show the lower notes. Each measure has two complementary colors.
When viewers scanned the QR code with their smart device they listened to a recording of the students playing their musical compositions while the viewer looked at their visual art work it inspired.
In art class, students scaled their lines onto a large paper and explored color theory. Each measure is represented by a color change. Above the line, students made tints of intermediate colors they mixed together to show the higher pitch. Below the line, students mixed their own shades and tones to show the lower notes. Each measure has two complementary colors.
When viewers scanned the QR code with their smart device they listened to a recording of the students playing their musical compositions while the viewer looked at their visual art work it inspired.