Sawdust have recently produced the design for ‘Genesis of a deep sound’ the latest album from ‘Fabrice Lig’ on label Fine Art recordings — It’s available on CD and 12” vinyl.
The album ‘Genesis of a Deep Sound’ is heavily focused on the ‘Genesis’ meaning the beginning, birth or creation. As Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan. Many different styles now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built. The venues for this movement were predominantly held in old abandoned warehouses — Sawdust felt by capturing those run-down, yet beautiful open spaces, they could visualise the essence of the title ‘Genesis of a Deep Sound’.
They also produced a custom typeface to reflect the nature of electronic based music, one of beautiful compositions of sound and layering. The result is an interesting composition of form and colour, and by making the circular shapes key lines, it added an ‘imaginary’ third colour tone although still set in black.
The front of the Record has graphic indicators overlaid onto the image that when matched to the back spell the word ‘Genesis’.
Design and art direction by Sawdust Creative production by Edit
Photography by Andrew Moore
Whoah! Since we last featured the work of our friend Alex McLeod, he has taken his sonic landscapes to a whole new level. The Toronto based artist creates 3D landscapes using a number of software programs, three or four in total for each artwork. Some programs are good for sculpting, some for fluid simulation others for rendering.
For any locals, he has two solo shows opening soon on August 26th at Angell Gallery (Toronto) and September 3rd at Anno Domini (San Jose).
This is the latest music video from the Dancing Pigeons, directed by Tomas Mankovsky. Born in Poland in 1979, he moved to Sweden at the age of one and grew up drawing crazy inventions and dreaming up wildcat schemes. When he got older he started working at Ogilvy in Stockholm before attending Beckmans College of Advertising.
Signed to Blink in 2009 Tomas has created a stunningly visual short “Sorry I’m Late” to follow up his heart-wrenching self-produced short “Little Big Love”. Still pushing brain-boundaries at all times Tomas spends his spare time writing film scripts, launching a range of Tetris-shaped bathroom tiles and inventing things, most recently a domino that generates sound.
Gabriel Jones recently photographed Arcade Fire’s most recent album cover entitled The Suburbs. These images where taken during a road trip in various suburbs in Texas followed by a studio shoot in Montreal where the selected suburb images where then projected on a large projection screen. The car and band members where positioned in front of the various suburb landscapes. This series of images are exploring a north American suburb experience and the memory that one can have from their suburban youth.
Gabriel’s images where also used for a postcard which Arcade Fire used to send out to magazines informing them about their upcoming shows and news about the album release. The series was art directed by Vincent Morisset and designed by Caroline Robert.
You may know be familiar with photographer Shaun Bloodworth through his work with Human Resources favourite and regular cohort Give Up Art, and last week Shaun released the short film ‘Minds Locked Together’ exploring the Electronic music scene in Sheffield. Filmed over a loose two month period, taking in venues from around Sheffield , from organised club nights to underground raves, it features everyone from performers and promoters to the passionate, committed paying audience.
Minds locked Together is a look into the passion and love of club nights and electronic music that is going on not only in Sheffield, but all around the globe. With a style of filming that is very close to Shaun’s still work, be sure to check the 15 short on Shaun’s site here.
A joint partnership between Intel and Vice, The Creators Project is ‘a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media. . .a modern day media channel that we will continually identify and celebrate the work of visionary artists wherever they are.’ Will be interesting to see how this develops, with a great list of ‘creators‘ already online including Mark Ronson, Trevor Jackson and Richie Hawtin.
Either I’m trippin’ or this is the latest music video from our friend Tobias Stretch. The video was shot entirely using a Canon 7D for the track ‘In The Summer’ by Crystal Fighters. Love it.
COME collective will be turning two this coming June 12th and we have the pleasure of broadcasting their exclusive live aural and visual performance right here. They will be celebrating across two Edinburgh venues (Cabaret Voltaire & Roxy Art House) with an array of art, dance, music and multi sensory experiences. Stay tuned for further information about the performance and our broadcast.
COME is an ever changing group of people who want to get involved in the different events they hold. So far more than 50 artists have created artworks using a great number of mediums inspired by varying themes. On the music side they have hosted many local talents like Hostage and international greats such as BLK JKS. They have transformed six venues across Edinburgh and St Andrews with plans of expanding across to Glasgow later in the year. Their street performances during their Festival of Total Art, got them kudos on the BBC News website last year. Like us, this year will see them evolve their online presence with live broadcasts and interactive artworks.
Muse is an wonderful experimental video by Field that touches on the controversial nature of the internets sharing culture. By using other people’s work in the film they acknowledge the impact of referencing and mimicking on the creative process, while originality, authorship, and crediting remain sensitive topics in a world where images spread like Chinese whispers.
Artists’ sketch- and notebooks have often been searched for insight into the process of inspiration. In a digital age, amidst masses of stunning imagery found online every day, the challenge for creatives is not only to filter and reflect this input, but also to develop a raison d’être, relevance and impact for any new images brought into the world.
We’ve written about this crew and there affiliates before, but I’d just like to bring to your attention the mixtapes that LuckyMe are putting out on a regular basis. Some of these are from the crew themselves and others from luminaries, legends and new kids on the block, offering some of the best mixes in the business right now, all for free. Sign up for the Podcasts through iTunes or check here on the regular.
Isaac Martin is an English DJ, producer and promoter currently living and working in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. His mix for Human Resources sees psychedelic house blended with future disco, dub and garage to create a picture of his sound for this Summer, perfect for bringing in your weekend on this stunning Friday afternoon (well, here at least).
Isaac will be representing Edinburgh at this years Soundwave Festival in Petcrane, Croatia (an idyllic festival setting which is highly recommended by this writer). Along with various other festival gigs, parties and their own club night featuring special guests including Samoyed (Flask), Astroboy (Departure Lounge) and Alex Nut (Rinse/Eglo), this Summer will promise to pretty big for this Leeds born scallion.
Neil Milton is a Scottish musician, composer, DJ, photographer and blogger, who is currently living in Warsaw, Poland.
As a musician, he composes and records under the name ‘Beneath us, the waves’. His sound is glacial, shimmering and drifts haphazardly between ambient soundscapes and minimalist classical compositions.
Starting out as a DJ during the first act of his record label ‘Too Many Fireworks’, he held a club night at Glasgow’s Barfly for two years. As if that was not keeping him busy enough, he is also one half of the photography collaboration and podcasting duo ‘We Sink Ships’. Through which, he creates and curates photographic exhibitions and presents a weekly podcast on Radio Magnetic.
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