Intent
Everyone listens to music. For many, it is an escape, a place of joy and respite and for others, it is their passion and career. Music is also often associated with mood. People will put on a particular song if they’re feeling sad or happy or romantic. And what comes with mood is color. What is the color of music?
This study has been conducted to answer that. Five users were given three genres of music to listen to (Lofi, Rock, Pop), each with two songs by the same artist. One song from each genre was completely instrumental while the other had vocals. A series of questions were asked after listening to both songs each genre which include what colors they saw, what their movement was like while listening and what mood they felt. After listening to all six songs, the testers were then asked to use only one color to represent each genre.
The colors were then quantified by percentage to be represented on three diagrams as seen on the poster in the form of petals that extend farther out based on their data. Each diagram consists of a genre and the percentage of each color that all the users saw during their listen. On the outer rings, the users are separated based on the amount of movement they made as well as the single color they said represented the genre as a whole. The Gotham typeface was used as a simple sans serif as not to distract from the data itself. The colored petals were placed in the same position on each graph to show how different the data between each genre of music was, though most of the petals are different shades and tints of those colors. Overall, the diagrams create a beat-like circle that shows the contrast of colors seen in each genre.
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