Empty seed pod halves, from a Delonix Regia tree, arranged on a black stone walking path. When these pods are complete and still have seeds they make great rattles. I saw some of these on the ground, thought they were interesting and had potential for a music theme. I tried to create a feeling of rhythm through repeating patters. For me, this image is lively like jazz and resembles piano keyboards. It also has the feeling of folk art.
after challenge:
This is my first entry in a while and it's encouraging to say the least. Some great comments and my first Posthumous blue to boot!
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When I saw this one I thought of the typical improvisational devices of jazz music. Repetition with variations, entering and leaving phrases not from the start but from the end and backwards, or somewhere in the middle, shortening and dilating the same phrase. Which is big part of the concept of exploration in so many genres. Django Reinhardt used to play the same note in sequences for whole measures, each note different as for dynamic and timbre, a one note melody.
With this image, I feel, you have illustrated the main points of a improvisation theory text book, in one frame and 1/60 of second.
Postprocessing is really good indeed, I was hoping that would help score-wise, but perhaps it doesn't matter.
Thanks for that, these are hard to come by, here and elsewhere.
this is in my top 2. terrific image, and works extremely well for the challenge. both as a "music score" and as a set of improvisations on the theme. And it's a great BW image in its own right
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