The song ‘Enola Gay’ by Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark reflects on the tragedy of the Hiroshima bombing. These music visuals showcase the contents of its lyrics and the events of that day through associated symbols and iconography representing both everyday life and nuclear warfare.
Achieved through a ‘sketchy’ comic book style, this functions to visually communicate the piece in a multilingual fashion, all the while paralleling the energy of the song. Each of the animation elements were hand drawn several times and digitised, creating a quick and scratchy appearance that also works to communicate an innocence of which is found within the lyrics of the song.