Exercise: Abstract illustration

I listened to "Summertime" by Miles Davis


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N090STPx-2M


The first time I listened to this music, I was struck by the tone of the trumpet which I found incredibly screetchy. On subsequent listening sessions, this was less the case, because I passed the initial shock and other sounds made it more subtle.  Nevertheless, I decided to try and communicate it visually.

 



Here I created marks while listening to the music, on the top of the page.

And then I forgot the paper by the computer,  my son came along and added his own doodles underneath. (Ironically, none of his characters have ears!)

I was interested by the way a change in colour, brought focus to the blue claw he drew.

I selected this section

Removed  some aspects of the image

Removed the background

At this point I realised that I loved the result, but would like to learn how to change the colour of the element which symbolises screetchy the best, and play around with the image a bit more with textures and colours as I was asked. 

example of an attempt that I find not successful

My best coloured version of "Screetchy"

I quite like this last version of my image for this exercise. The colours match an underwater feeling I experienced whilst listening to the music, and the screetchy sound that came out from the trumpet (perhaps like arc welding?)

I also chose colours that do not particularly go well together, to give a sense of uneasiness.  I am new to computer generated images and find it sometimes gives me surprising results that I couldn't have dreamt of, or perhaps realised with other media. 

Do I think any of these could be an album cover?  I don't think green is very popular, and can't imagine seeing the green version used for this purpose. The white version could be used, probably with text in contrasting colour like red. Yes, I can see this one as an album/cd cover.