Lately I've been thinking about correlations between new art (my new art in particular) and new music I've been hearing. A lot of new music seems like collage work to me. Listening to new albums of 2010, I feel like I was hearing a higher content of densely packed auditory stimulation, with so many different sounds and noises and varying instrumentals packed and layered tightly together. I wonder if there really is a higher concentration of this, or something I'm just noticing recently?
It's not news that we've been constantly exposed to large amounts of stimuli for some time now. But I feel like it's been largely through general media such as internet, TV, movies, and video games. What I've been thinking lately is that maybe we're beginning to see a broader evolution of that. I wonder that we've been digesting that stuff for so long, and now, in a larger way, we're all regurgitating that back out through more of our self expression- in higher quantities than before.
I think this all may be particularly useful to me from the vantage of a designer. To me, the similarities between these things are evidence of what is making people tick right now (and in the future), on a psychological level. I think that as a designer, honing in on that abstract thing that makes people both comfortable and stimulated simultaneously is what makes a design successful.
None of this may be particularly new observations, but at least something that may generate new considerations or conversations.I am constantly internally consumed by finding relationships and connections between things. My brain works on it's own little tangents. I just observe and sort the information.
