Re: [microsound] re:music presentation

[Assaf Gidron <agidron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

a late reply...

david turgeon wrote:
> bottom line being that everything is language to begin with: the box,
> the grotesk typeface for the title, the plastic tray, the
> computer-generated 3d cellular model illustration, the label, the $25+
> price tag...  they all tell you something, & you haven't heard the music
> yet.  i personally would have never bought a supersilent cd were it not
> for the minimal cover design, more reminescent of a 12k record than a
> free noise jazz band...  dare i say, it pushed my buttons all right (&
> so does the music, incidentally...)
> 
> david

yes... once i was inlove with a certain CD for a year, couldnt stop hearing
it, until i saw a small picture of the guy who made it in the newspaper, and
he had such a silly expression on his face that the next time i listned to
the CD i couldnt get his image out of my mind, and it changed entirley the
way i listned to it, and i hate that CD ever since. and the guy too.

so if any of you music-makers on the list have a photoshoot schedualed...
try not to make very silly faces. oh, wash your hair too. this might
influence your whole career.

Øivind Idsø wrote:
> Personally I think it becomes way too purist to shy away from a certain label
or a certain artist because their/his/her covers are not to your liking, or
the concept (marketing) becomes too restrained or monotonous or whatever.
I´ve never been much of a "cover fetishist" and have never allowed a
bad/ugly cover or whatever affect my opinions about the content that
actually matters, which is the music (good covers might heighten the
experience, though, but that´s just because it´s seen as an extension of the
good music on the CD). This might seem trivial, and I guess it *is* trivial,
but it feels like you are making an ugly frame decide what the
Dali/Picasso/Miro/whatever should be about. Granted, the frame is relevant,
but one shouldn´t overestimate it´s importance. The old LP covers looked
better (beause, obviously, they were bigger) but I wouldn´t want to keep an
inferior sound format because the packaging looks better (I´m overdoing it
here, but still). <

i know i dont have that much control of my listening habits: i'm always
affected by the cover art, the artist's alias, the label and whatever,
whether i like it or not (i do :) when i think of an album, one of the
things that comes to mind first is the visual represantation. while i'm
writing this my mind is attacked by the RED from the cover art of Pita's
"get out" CD - every time i am reminded of this CD my mind becaumes swamped
with RED, what is a bit ironic in this case because it could have been BLUE
just as well :) if that was the case i would have listned to it as a totaly
different album...

Assa f