Yasunao Tone: MP3 Deviations
2011
CD-/ LP-Cover Design
Yasunao Tone: MP3 Deviations 2011
Yasunao Tone creates music by means of disrupting MP3-files. Sound files that were corrupted in the MP3 generate error messages, which are then utilized to assign various lengths of samples automatically. Feeding also different play back speeds creates a sound which is always different – unpredictable and unknowable.
Out of Yasunaos Music we created black-and-white imagefiles that show the flow of music; lighter colors are loud frequencies, black parts are quiet frequencies. These images are then used as displacement maps on various photographic images. Each color-channel (red, green, blue) uses different displacement maps, which create different color shifts deviated by the music. The CD-package shows images from inside (architecture = human built structure) and outside (mountain = nature built structure). “Outside” is shown inside, whereas “Inside” is shown outside.
Photography of mountain: Florian Voggeneder. Geo-tagged quadrocopter-image of future railwaystation: Ramon Bauer, Michael Holzapfel, Andreas Pieper (48.294561° N + 15.995606° E; approx. 100 m above ground). Photography of architectural structure: Tina Frank.
This package uses a font called Beowulf from the Netherlands designers Letteror, which has (near) random shapes = each letter has a slightly different outline.