The Auricle Archive (1) by Synapse

2D • Music • posted on May 25, 2006

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In 2001 I handled the monochrome graphic design for The Auricle Archive, a series of 12 CDR issues on my friends' Auricle label. This is a collection of three pieces of artwork used in the CD inserts for the series, converted to a pseudo-greyscale tint. Given the abstract nature of the music, I had a free hand to come up with pretty much anything I felt appropriate, and used album/track titles, the artists' recording techniques and my own aesthetic impressions as inspiration. Microphones stuck up drainpipes, anyone? Thank you for taking a look and your thoughts are always much appreciated :-)

Comments (7)

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spidermurph

7:31AM | Thu, 25 May 2006

Jimski, this is beautiful dude. I can't believe I haven't seen this before. Murph

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Synapse

7:37AM | Thu, 25 May 2006

I obviously didn't show you at the time ;-) Good to hear from you bud, greetings from Oz to Portugal.

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erlandpil

7:38AM | Thu, 25 May 2006

Nice work from you again erland

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Naichan

9:04AM | Thu, 25 May 2006

So it's a drainpipe, is it? I saw a speaker! Whatever, this is a seriously cool piece of work. I've long thought that this series contains some of your best work, so it's a treat to see it reproduced so clearly here.

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Synapse

9:13AM | Thu, 25 May 2006

It wasn't an easy thing to try and simulate, but yes, it's a drainpipe with an eclipse thingy visible through the other end! Thanks for your encouragement Nigel, I may do another of these montages from the series :-)

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daeve

1:06PM | Thu, 25 May 2006

PVC piping makes for some good reverberations as well but the best I must say is the sound of a clarinet for example, in a storm-drain. However, I don't recommend venturing down one during a rain storm but the sound down there is just unbelievable, the echoes just go on forever... Very nice work here Jim, I like the more minimalist approach.

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Synapse

8:59PM | Thu, 25 May 2006

Maybe you've heard of the Deep Listening Band who recorded in a giant disused underground water cistern? Such brilliant acoustic properties, such dense long reverb that they couldn't tell where the original sound would end and the reverb began!