Yeah, all the time! Like right now I'm listening to Sweet Home Alabama, and visualizing this one guy going to Alabama on those "Big wheels". Or in Smoke on the Water, where I visualize some guy setting fire to some building with a flare gun, causing "Smooooooke on the waaater"
Emotion, sometimes. Example: Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas. Makes me feel real happy and hopeful.
This is the beautiful thing about the fine arts. You can be in a position to analyze, such as a curator for art, or a composer for music. Otherwise, you do not have to fragment the work. We can afford to just let the art take us where it may. :bravo:
Well i think about dance like 24/7 so when i listen to music i make up a dance in my head and visualize it.
I don't really like visuals in my songs when I'm wanting to visualize =). I purposefully look for songs without vocals. I don't want to have to see what the artist paints, I wanna see the picture the artist's song paints. I've accumulated quite a nice collection of such song. Its mainly comprised of freelance "classical" artists and soundtracks.
heres a nice example. Close your eyes and give that a listen.
then heres his audio page
I can sometimes get this sort of stuff stuck in my head through the day and even to bed time and I think that helps visualization =P
EDIT: Of course, theres some good stuff with vocals too.
omg arby that's totally uber man
really nice OMG I feel in a battle
I used to be the same way arby. I'm warming up to vocals now though.
I find myself visualizing with music. A lot of times I'll take control of those visualizations (or, say, a character in them) and play around with it in my mind. Weired, huh?
arby... I owe you my life and underwear for showing me that website. I feel passion burning from within :D
Good site arby, thanks. I understand what you mean...the music itself, pure and not tainted with vocals. Allows you to "see better", whatever it might mean to you.
Thanks for all the responses...very nice, lots of profound ideas.