The Interwined Relationship
Between Music
& Politics Visualised

I believe that music has the power to change the world. It can break down barriers, heal, and create meaning. Music is deeply impactful: it gives different social groups a sense of pride and belonging, while also bringing disparate people together. For me, there is no universal language quite like music. Music can be employed for both positive and negative purposes. It can be used in populist political campaigns as well as by anti-establishment movements; it can function as a voice of protest, but also as a force within sport, entertainment, and religion. On a personal level, music helps keep my creative energy alive. Through this project, I explore how music has the power to disrupt through visual experimentation and sequence. This exhibition presents a visual metaphor for the way music can shift poles of influence and interfere with different modalities of governance, including unipolarity, bipolarity, multipolarity, and “nonpolarity”. The latter, as argued by Richard N. Haass, represents a new and emerging form of governance in which “power is now found in many hands and in many places”. Technique In order to generate meaning and allow the music to dictate the outcomes, almost every movement and effect has been created by directly linking the sound waves of the music to the text. Additional design elements such as colour, shape, and texture, have been introduced to enhance the experience; however, the movement and timing are entirely governed by the waveforms of each track. Each piece of music has been carefully selected to reflect a specific modality of governance.