Berlin-based musical artist Arms and Sleepers commissioned us to design album artwork and merchandise for his 2024 album “What Tomorrow Brings”, released by Pelagic Records.
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Remixing analog photographs, home video, and open access artwork to illustrate themes of memory and loss.
Introducing distortion to analog media as a metaphor for the ephemerality and instability of memory
Physically recorded images produce a unique intimacy — they are static snapshots of momentary conditions that cannot be easily edited or reinstantiated with exactness.
A collection is a living memory of memories — each time it's flipped through, it's reshaped by the ritual. The order inadvertently changes, places and events shuffle, and our memory follows.
Scans are gradations — the composite of sequential moments that can be manipulated in real time to draw distortions and warp echoes of the past.
Speed
Blend
Color
Above — “scanimation” — memories of a flower transition from static representation to a distorted sequence of echoes. Timing and layering can be manipulated to create new experiences of the past.
Everything old is new again. Revisiting archives of public photographs, home video, and open access artwork to broaden perspectives across time. Pulling in visual metaphors of distortion further shapes an aesthetic of nostalgia.
Above — A late night infomercial we developed for “What Tomorrow Brings” composed of (re)mixed media
L'Estampe Originale: 'Tiger in the Jungle,' 1893. Paul Elie Ranson
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Froghouse Non-Originale: 'Tiger in the Distortion,' 2023, Froghouse
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Thank you Tigers for the eternal inspiration you provide. We know that the artifacts we create in your image are superficial at best: may you forever live beyond the limits of human understanding.
Support TigersMeditations on time as afforded by the medium of vinyl. Experimenting with the speed of rotation and the repetition of folding and unfolding.
Now
Tomorrow
Repeat
It's Easy
Belfast (feat Sopia Insuna)
Blood Song (feat Andreas Schütz)
O-R-I-O-N (feat. YEYEY)
