Salvador Dali has always been one of the artists that inspire me a lot (along with Van Gogh, Aivazovsky and Kuindzhi). These artists are absolutely different yet amazing. As I have no other options I decided to take Dali's painting 'The Persistence of Memory'. Though the choice was between Edward Hopper and Dali, but this time I want to get out of my comfort zone and go wild with abstract sound and experiment with it.

I like Dali for symbolism. Each his painting has some kind of symbol in it. So before brainstorming the actual sound track or sound narrative I need to analyse what we have on the picture. So I started researching a little bit and I found this book in the library. 

 

Basically what this description says is that the idea behind the picture to show that the time melting, floating and then decays. Our memories are not consistent and some of them are fading, some of them don't follow each other chronologically. 

I instantly took the vibe from this and came up with a concept of my experimental sound. 

As I said Salvador Dali used a lot of symbolism in his works. Melting clocks, decaying clocks, sleeping man's face and an ocean with clear sky on the background. So looking at the picture and combining it with the description, I thought that it's good to use The Ocean as a symbol of eternity. My main idea now was to create the feeling of memories being around, kind of floating in our heads, appearing in conscious randomly, with weird feelings and may be sounds. The whole work is an experimental project.