Person of note

The three people I was given were:

Zaha Hadid

Organic forms

Architecture

Wendy Carlos

Future vs past

Stanley Kubrick films

John Cage

Experimental

I already knew of all 3 of them and interested in all 3, which made it hard. My initial thoughts were:

Zaha already has visual language - which might make it harder to be original

Zaha was a woman in a male-dominated profession

Fairly ruthless - such belief in her own ideas

Remember listening to her desert island discs and she had the most relentless working habits - almost not human. Seems similar to working habits of architecture people I know
(whats an all nighter?).

She lived a crazy life and build buildings that seem to come from space - strange personality she could be from space

architecture is a weird combo of art and logic 

Wendy Carlos' music is quite visual- that might be interesting to try and translate?

Wendy transitioned at a time when it was super unusual

Fits somewhere between elevator music and experimental electronic music

Don't know much about John Cage but he did some weird/interesting stuff. Uninhibited experimentation

Want to know more about John

he was spiritual - eastern ideas

interest in chance and randomisation 

Such a sinister music/film intro 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-mDTdeKR8&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHI-mDTdeKR8&has_verified=1

Zaha was wild - also she has Drake and Adele on there

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0713rtr

Like how she talks about growing up in Iraq - challenges the current western view of the middle east

What was John thinking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myXAUEuECqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y

This last one reminded me of some video art I saw in the Tate when I went to London recently. Video art is so regularly bad. Had multiple screens with people doing things and bits of cars and stuff - the soundtrack was traffic recorded by John Cage.

Next I think I need to try experimenting - seeing if I can work out if one of these is stronger than another I could probably go with either of these. I think John and Wendy need sound mapping - something else - organic? for Zaha. I feel like I'll need to avoid copying Zaha's style - but what else to draw from?

Visually I'm feeling this is gonna get abstract to communicate non-visual ideas. Need to remember the things I learnt in visual narratives.