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Proposal - Exploring the influences that the music we listen to has on our fashion choices
Key Words
Portraiture, projection, projector, psychedelic, psychedelia, drone, folk, space, space rock, garage, neo-psych, music, influence, fashion, style, genre, sub-genre, clothing, experiment, experimental, studio, immersion.
Overview/Topics of Interest
My area of practice tends to have a psychedelic theme to it, which includes a range of everyday objects, nature and people. I am inspired by work that uses bright colours and I like to work using bright colours myself. I am majorly influenced by Karl Ferris and Ira Cohen because of their use of colour and materials used within their shoots are very experimental, notably 'The Mylar Chamber' series.
The idea for my final major project was influenced by visual light shows that I saw at Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia and a piece entitled 'L'Expedition Scintillante' by Pierre Huyghe at the Reflections From a Damaged Life exhibition.
Title:
Refractions
Introduction/Research Question
How does what we listen to affect the way we dress? Does the genre we listen to cause us to dress stereotypically? Or do we not dress stereotypically at all?
Aims and Objectives
For my final major project my aim is to explore the relationship between clothing and fashion and how they influence each other. There are many different genres of music that influence the wearer to dress a certain way. This could be down to the way a famous person from said genre of music dresses or the fashion of a certain era.
I intend to photograph people whose clothing choices are clearly influenced by the music that they listen to. The way that I will show the relation between music and fashion is that I will be using an overhead projector to play a video onto the subject's face and backdrop, for example, post punk and a video of frequency waves (this would connect the subject to post-punk band Joy Division through their album Unknown Pleasures which features frequency waves on the front cover.)
Rationale
I think that this will be an interesting idea to pursue as there are many genres of music that I will be able to explore and every outcome will be completely different to the others. It would also be interesting to see if the viewer(s) of my work will be able to make the connection between the genres and fashion styles.
I would not be able to use any video I pleased and what I personally thought related to the fashion, so I would have to ask my subjects about what they listen to and who they are influenced by amongst other things as not to create a stereotypical piece of work.
I would also like to play music that the subject likes and photograph their natural reaction to the music that they are listening to as I would like the subject to be fully immersed in the music.Previous Research
Below I have compiled a list of sub-genres of music, along with the main genre of music that they come from, that I have researched into and that I think would be interesting to explore.
- Psychedelic Drone
- Psychedelic Folk
- Psychedelic Garage
- Neo-Psych
- Space Rock
General Methodology
⁃ Plan questions to ask the subjects. Doing so will enable the subject and I to choose an appropriate video to project.
⁃ Print final pieces to either a2 or a3 poster size
Data Collection and Analysis
As mentioned previously, I will ask my subject some questions about the genre they listen to. This is mainly to avoid using a stereotypical projection relating to the chosen genre.
Specialist Needs
I intend to shoot my work in the studio with the aid of overhead projector. I will experiment using black and white backgrounds before I have the subjects come into the studio to see which would look best with the projections on it.
