Photograms for Zack Leal

#1. "Plug In Baby"

First and foremost all my compositions will revolve around musical themes (my favorites bands, albums, and songs) since a lot of my life revolves around music, I simply cannot live without it. This composition is inspired by the song Plug In Baby by Muse (a British progressive alternative rock band). The main idea behind the song is the singer sings about his love for playing on his electric guitar and in the chorus he makes an alliteration along the lines of "my plug in baby, crucifies my enemies" in which he refers to that no matter what critics may say about his band's music he knows he'll be able to put their claims to rest with their music.

So with that I took the idea and ran with it; This composition uses mainly a cardboard cutout looking like an oddly shaped gun and I placed a guitar pick to look like a bullet firing out of it, there is also a USB connector to somewhat illustrate the Plug In element of the composition. Overall the composition is meant to convey the idea of the song in a more literal sense.

#2. "SUNNY DAY"

This composition is inspired by the song SUNNY DAY by HERMIT (a Japanese alternative rock musician). This composition is a bit more simpler to understand. Basically I decided to illustrate a sun shower (or basically what I call it when it rains when it's sunny and hot outside) rather than take a literal property/element from the song (more or less I felt the song title fitted as a title for this composition). It is composed of a CD to represent the Sun along with guitar picks to represent rain drops and shredded tissue to make clouds.

#3. "Loveless"

This composition is inspired by the album Loveless by My Bloody Valentine (a British shoegaze/alternative rock band). This composition was a bit of a more loftier idea, essentially I made a few flowers using iPod earphones and a CD to represent the flower blossoms. However with the earphones I placed shredded tissue ontop of them to give them a more flowery appearance however the end result made them look a bit more like they are on fire, an effect I think that fits the composition even more as I feel gives it a more artsy metaphorical quality. Overall though I cannot possibly put into words what this metaphor is as this piece was more or less constructed while listening to the music on the album rather than trying to put a literal property/element of the music into the composition. So take it into consideration as you like.