Creativity Exercise - week 4

 

For this creativity exercise, I wanted to approach it the same way we’ve been doing our other exercises, loose, experimental, and more about the process than the final result. The exercise asked what sound would look like if we could actually see it, and right away from Quadeca’s newest addition to his recent album Vanisher, Horizon Scraper (The Extended Cut) “accordions remorse”. It’s not a song you just listen to in the background. It constantly shifts, stretches out, pulls back, and then hits you again, which makes it perfect for breaking into multiple visual moments instead of just one single piece. 

Please check it out! : Vanisher, Horizon Scraper (The Extended Cut) FULL ALBUM

For the first section of the song, I imagined the sound as something very light and unstable. Visually, this part feels like thin shapes drifting without direction, almost floating in place. Nothing is sharp or defined here. The colors stay soft and de-saturated, and the movement feels slow and hesitant, like the sound itself is still trying to figure out where it wants to go. This section set the tone for the rest of the exercise by keeping everything open-ended and a little uncomfortable.
    As the song starts to build, the second scene begins to take shape. The sound feels more emotional and layered, so the visuals follow that same idea. Shapes start overlapping and stacking, creating more weight in the composition. The colors deepen and feel heavier, and the movement becomes more noticeable, almost like everything is being pulled toward the center. This part of the exercise felt very much about tension, not explosive yet, but clearly building toward something.
    The third section is where everything really breaks open. The sound becomes louder, more aggressive, and more chaotic, and I leaned fully into that visually. Shapes become sharper, more distorted, and less controlled. Lines stretch and crack, and the color contrast becomes much stronger. This part of the process felt messy on purpose because the sound itself feels overwhelming and unfiltered. Instead of trying to clean it up, I let the visuals feel uncomfortable and intense.
    For the final part of the song, the visuals calm down, but they don’t go back to how they started. The sound feels drained but reflective, so the imagery becomes slower and more spaced out. Shapes soften again, but they feel heavier than before, like they’re settling after everything that happened earlier. The colors warm up slightly, giving the scene a more grounded and emotional finish. It feels less chaotic and more accepting.

    Overall, this exercise reminded me why creativity prompts like this are so useful. By taking something as abstract as sound and forcing myself to visualize it, I stopped overthinking and focused more on feeling. Breaking the song into four distinct scenes helped me understand how emotion, pacing, and movement can translate into visual design without needing to show anything literal at all.