Help! Live Music graphic idea needed, defeat to rockist hegemony!

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OK, so I'm involved in the design of a freshers guide to Brighton and for every section I'm making outline drawings to represent the section, e.g. someones dancing for clubbing, a bag for shopping, an aeroplane for travel etc.

However, I've got to the 'live music' section and it would be very easy to stick in a guitar, but this seems to obvious and, dare I say it, rockist.

Does anyone have any ideas what I could use instead? Bear in mind that it has to still be recognisable as a single colour pixelated (120 pixels high or wide) outline.

I fear I'm going to have to stick in a guitar...

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think maybe a microphone would be appropriate. Unless that screams "stand up comedy" instead of singing?

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

How about an amp?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Or a hand doing the satan sign? It would be rockist, but it would be cool.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

You could be classicalist and have a violin.

Or jazzist, and have a saxamophone.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

or you could have a shot of a stylus on a turntable!

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Use an oud instead of a guitar.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

if you have the space how about the outlined silhouette of a crowd¿

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Sax-a-mo-phone, sax-a-mo-phone.

Satan sign: Like it! The editor might not go for it, but it's worth a shot!

Crowd, also good - but might lack detail.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.uniquevents.com/categories/canada/images/music_note_sixteen_jpg.jpg ?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

How about a keyboard, since it's less genre-specific?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tntech.edu/brass/trumpet/trumpetlogo.jpg ?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh, Stewart - good call! a little too clip-art for the brief I was given, which was "make it funky" (second only to "jazz it up a bit" in design brief cliché)

(x-post just seen your trumpet - I like that idea best of all)

The problem with a keyboard, fitting the style I'm going for, is all you will see is a pixelated rectangle!

All good ideas though, thanks everyone.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://logo.cafepress.com/7/415192.68047.jpg ?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually like the audience idea best, but the problem would be seeing if it can be simplified enough.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

iwww.geocities.com/ tubahat/quiz/trumpet.jpg

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Grr.

ihttp://www.geocities.com/ tubahat/quiz/trumpet.jpg

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, wouldn't a speaker stack suit all purposes?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

double-grr.

http://www.geocities.com/tubahat/quiz/trumpet.jpg

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the audience idea is nice, but I'm not sure it will work with the coarse pixellated look I'm going for.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahem, Chewshabadoo....

http://www.geocities.com/tubahat/quiz/trumpet.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I've used a headphone silhouette before. Gets the message across I think.

― darin, Monday, 16 August 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheers Stewart, I can't keep up with the constantly changing methods of posting images on ilx.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, in the end I went with Stewart's trumpet theme, but using a Miles Davis style full body profile outline. So, thanks fella!

Thanks for everyones's help.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't need to thank me.

A cheque by return is all the thanks I need.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Will a graphic depiction of a cheque do? It's all I can afford.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as it's not a graphic depiction of a bouncing one.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing is less rockist that a Theremin.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/04/charlieclouser/images/theremin.jpg

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://web.media.mit.edu/~marrin/theremin.gif

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Except maybe a zither.

http://www.mms.qld.edu.au/musical-instruments/instrument-pics/zither.jpg

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Or a melodica.

http://www.buttonbox.com/pics/melodica.gif

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither rock....

http://www.wirelessdatasys.com/dea/luthiery/harp1.jpg

.... nor roll.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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