Animacy, Motion, Emotion and Empathy in Visual Music: Enhancing appreciation of abstracted animation through wordless song

This paper will discuss the exploration of key musical and visual parameters with the aim of enhancing the appreciation of Abstracted Animation [1] with gymnastics wall decals varying degrees of animacy.A series of animations were created in response to multiple, wordless, sung, close here variations of a song.Carefully delineated, visual parameters and a mapping of visual to audio relationships of the animations afforded insights into key audio-visual intersections and suggested future directions.