Jelle Koiter

Music has become the engine for me to create work. I seek to resolve myself into the dark, mysterious and dreamy sound and lyrics alongside taking photographs. I feel mesmerized, and it opens a door to experience a special feeling that I can’t find in daily life. Music is my imagination, and it allows me to enter a state of mind that twists the way I perceive myself and the world around me. My photography becomes the output of this personal experience and exploration.

This project is a visualization of “Deathconsciousness” by “Have A Nice Life”. The music can be described as a wall of sound, known as Shoegaze. This album as an exploration of life, knowing it won’t last forever, conveying senses of dreamy wonder, anxious despair and anger, becoming more intense as it progresses. Those senses are conveyed through images of bodies, and abstract photographs, intuitively made with long shutter speeds and moving light, sometimes both are combined to convey the abstract and layered nature of the selected music. Intuition and imagination has been Jelle’s guide to visualize the music. The publication is a set of 3 different fold-out posters, focusing more on the emotional story of the music. The installation invites music lovers, deaf people and dreamers to put on the headphones and step into my world, and experience the visuals of my imagination, to see what music looks like, to be mesmerized.