Inconsequential Audible Landscapes
May. 1st, 2008 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
samaritan1975
I broke out a little STP this morning; their debut CD Core still played just fine, despite it being, what, nearly a decade since I spun it up? Still remember the words, it turns out.
I've found myself taken with the artwork some music artists use on their album covers; most notably that of bands like Paik, Auburn Lull, and random others. This infatuation has presented itself as a curiosity... I ask questions of the album covers. I often keep the album art in mind when I play the CD... I imagine the band taking cues from that location, person, or what-have-you; I also wonder if the location only means something to them (hence, inconsequential, in the grand scheme of things, anyways).
Auburn Lull- Alone I Admire. I wonder who's driving... what stretch of road that is. What exit number did they take? Where are they headed? I imagine them passing old abandoned warehouses, able to be seen from the highway overpass.
Paik- The Orson Fader. What would it be like to stage a concert at an observatory? Did the band members find out about it on some kind of field trip or study? Is it abandoned... how cool would it be to walk around an abandoned observatory site? I wonder if it's secluded on a moutain, where young lovers go because there's nowhere else in their small little town.
Solution A.D.- Happily Ever After. What park is that? Does it snow all the time? I imagine it's one of those forgotten little playgrounds, just off into the woods away from some new, super-grandiose playcenter with the newest arcade games and carnival rides.
What's funny is that newer CDs/bands don't seem to do it for me. It's more indy (or those of the last decade or so)artists that are (in my eyes) able to get visuals and audibles to congeal.
Also? I'm totally naming my first CD Inconsequential Audible Landscapes. If I had a grain of talent, that is.
I've found myself taken with the artwork some music artists use on their album covers; most notably that of bands like Paik, Auburn Lull, and random others. This infatuation has presented itself as a curiosity... I ask questions of the album covers. I often keep the album art in mind when I play the CD... I imagine the band taking cues from that location, person, or what-have-you; I also wonder if the location only means something to them (hence, inconsequential, in the grand scheme of things, anyways).
Auburn Lull- Alone I Admire. I wonder who's driving... what stretch of road that is. What exit number did they take? Where are they headed? I imagine them passing old abandoned warehouses, able to be seen from the highway overpass.
Paik- The Orson Fader. What would it be like to stage a concert at an observatory? Did the band members find out about it on some kind of field trip or study? Is it abandoned... how cool would it be to walk around an abandoned observatory site? I wonder if it's secluded on a moutain, where young lovers go because there's nowhere else in their small little town.
Solution A.D.- Happily Ever After. What park is that? Does it snow all the time? I imagine it's one of those forgotten little playgrounds, just off into the woods away from some new, super-grandiose playcenter with the newest arcade games and carnival rides.
What's funny is that newer CDs/bands don't seem to do it for me. It's more indy (or those of the last decade or so)artists that are (in my eyes) able to get visuals and audibles to congeal.
Also? I'm totally naming my first CD Inconsequential Audible Landscapes. If I had a grain of talent, that is.
