Fossils - Tanya_Jaiswal

Everything in this world has a sound, a rhythm, a mood and a color. Everything can be stripped down to it's basic representations, to it's form. Does this everything include music as well?
Can music too in it's complexities, beats and frivolousness be stripped down to something as simple as 1s and 0s?
We strive on our quest to find the answer. Working purely on simplifying music to it's core we abstracted it's feel, form, it's life and it's story. We imagined music dancing to it's own beat, to it's own rhythym and represented it visually.
This here is a simplified abstraction of music as we hear it.

"At midnight in the museum hall
The fossils gathered for a ball
There were no drums or saxophones,
But just the clatter of their bones,
A rolling, rattling, carefree circus
Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas.
Pterodactyls and brontosauruses
Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses.
Amid the mastodontic wassail
I caught the eye of one small fossil.
"Cheer up, sad world," he said, and winked—
"It's kind of fun to be extinct."
-Ogden Nash

Music composed by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Animated by Mayank Modi and Tanya Jaiswal

The orchestra performing the song contains various different instruments. The string section in itself includes multiple Violins, Cellos, Double Bass, and other such instruments. Our concept being focused on the sound of these instruments, gave us the freedom to name certain sounds with the techniques used to make them.
Some of these were
Pizzicato- the plucking of strings that creates a vibrant sound.
Ponticello -playing near the bridge to attain higher harmonics. This gives a direction to the music.
Portamento- a slide from one note to the other. The fret of the instrument creates a distinct sound here.