Maps & Networking - Trying my Idea

I thought I'd spent enough time talking about my idea and felt that it was time to put it into practise so before I handed it over to my subjects I decided to give it a try myself. I got some paints ready, chose my song and blindfolded myself. The song I chose was 'To Build a Home' by The Cinematic Orchestra. The reason why I chose this song is because through complete accident I stumbled across this song yet found it is the song that completely relaxes me like nothing else does. It's a song that I can play that calms me when my nerves are high or when I'm scared and just really puts me in my own zone where I can drift off almost. 

To Build a Home - Before listening to the music

From a first hand experience of this, I can confirm that I definitely got completely engulfed and lost in the music so much so that I felt like I was only painting for roughly 30 seconds whereas in reality I'd been painting for 6 and a half minutes. Because of this I feel like when I have my subjects do it, I'll have their chosen songs on repeat so that they can paint for as long as they like and stop whenever they want to. The song I chose has a lot of violins in and something that I found myself doing whilst listening was actually painting to the tune of the violins as you can see the green swirls down the left side. This was really interesting to actually do myself as I didn't know how the final product would come out. After looking at the outcome I think everything went according to plan and I now know what to change for when I bring in my subjects.

To Build a Home - A finished Piece