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Art And Design This is an album featuring original music from Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Michael Brook, Roger Eno, Laraaji, Harold Budd & John Paul Jones. It contains musical soundtracks to films, some real, some imaginary. The original cover was an abstract drawing by Brian Eno, and this is what was used as the basis for Wordsalad's cover. The first decision was to translate Eno's drawing into a photographic image. There were several reasons for this, the main one being that this is more filmic which seems appropriate given the concept of the album. Ideas of props and sets were also brought into the mix. A square canvas was stretched and painted with yellow oil paint to represent the diamond feature in the original. The fact this is a real ‘painting' was important to the integrity of the image and it's faithfulness to the original. It had to be hand crafted and therefore human and imperfect. Filmic locations were considered and we stalked around the darker corners of London brandishing a masonry nail and a hammer, ‘hanging' the painting on evocative exterior walls. These shots were further effected during the photographic printing process to increase their sense of unreality and to ‘taint' the atmosphere. Light trails provide the final compositional element and photographically ‘draw' the white lines which appear in the original. One of the main thing which strikes you on listening to the album is that the mood of the album as a whole is a beautiful mixture of the sinister and the ethereal. This contrast is an enormously important presence in the art work. The location and atmosphere creating a darkness with this painting almost generating a band of light through the space. The use of bright graphic spaces is used in contrast to this darkness and this idea of contrast is used throughout: Light and dark / The sold, permanent buildings, temporary painting and transitory ethereal light / speedy movement and static elements. These are all used to articulate the moods and eclectic pieces on Music for Films III. Nick Robertson, Wordsalad |
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