A typographic expression and representation of music. Words or concepts to describe my piece of music were organic/nature, opening-and-closing, and calming. First, we interpret the music and express it visually. Next, we incorporate typography (the lyrics) into our visual music. The first challenge was to choose a piece of music to base this project on—after considering a few choices, I decided to stick simply and instinctively to music that resonates with my core and is close and meaningful to me. I worked on this project over one semester and went through different versions before arriving to my final solution. My first leap was from working with paper to working with ribbon, which I decided to try out just by how the music felt like to me—a process very much like dancing to music. After this step, I struggled with finding the right typography. Then, when I decided to create the type with ribbon (one day during my weeks of struggle, while walking down an avenue, I suddenly envisioned ribbon‐made type resting on top of electrical wires going across the street, and flowing in the wind) the project became more mechanical. The ribbon-type-making took approximately forty hours. For my first class presentation, putting them up on the wall took three hours and taking them down carefully afterwards took two hours. For the “Listening to Print” exhibition, it took 18 hours for installation, and deinstallation took about half and hour.
