The aim behind this project was to select a song and capture the dynamism present in its lyrics and music through graphic design by only utilising the lyrics of the song and three colours.

The song ‘Frontier Psychiatrist’ by the avalanches is so visually and musically vibrant, that even the lyrics by themselves had enough character to evoke a sense of musicality and storytelling, which honestly made my job quite a bit easier.

“The song fits into the relatively unknown genre of “plunderphonics”–a song entirely made up of components of other songs, movie and film dialogue and sound effects”.-Genius lyrics, Doug Glassman

Throughout the verse and chorus an amalgamation of sounds, effects and background noises are applied to create a detailed soundscape and attempting to translate that using just text and colour forced me to use the various tools present in the software to bring out the texture present in the delivery of every sentence.

The process was experimental and fun and while I could not possibly capture the beautiful, unadulterated chaos of the song, given the limitations I had to work in, I felt quite proud of the outcome.