Sum IV.1 Shortets (Artwork Details)
My past few albums have been video albums and haven't been formal digital releases or on vinyl. But with any album release you have to think about the artwork at some point. For this album once I got to design stage I had to listen to each piece of music and try to match it with some kind of image. In the beginning of the process I was looking at paintings of Botero. They seemed to fit with the pieces but as I looked further there were different paintings and photographs that worked with them as well. It can take quite a while to match an image with music–similar to scoring music for a film but it's the reverse process: you’re the art director. Matching visuals with music is less intuitive than you think. What you have to have is a sense of motion in a still image, as if it was a montage sequence in a film, or more accurately, the feeling of holding a record jacket, looking at the artwork, and listening to the music. If you were to use AI by simply typing in text prompts wit...