Aperture/Overture: The Album

Graphic Design
Editorial
Photography

Aperture/Overture is an ongoing series of photography projects to which students of Minerva Art Academy and Prince Claus Conservatoire together take part in (Hanze UAS, Groningen, NL).

The Album is the 2021/22 edition of Aperture/Overture, and celebrates the union between music and photography with the redesig of album covers.

My partecipation to the project constisted of two album cover redesigns, made in collaboration with saxophone student Nick Vrolichs. Our artistic visions merged in the reinterpretations of the albums Pink Floyd “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” and Dexter Gordon “Balladas”. 

 
 
 
 

Overture/Aperture: The Album

 

Graphic Design

Editorial
Photography

 

 

 

Overture/Aperture is an ongoing series of photography projects to which students of Minerva Art Academy and Prince Claus Conservatoire together take part in (Hanze UAS, Groningen, NL).

The Album is the 2021/22 edition of Overture/Aperture; and celebrates the union between music and photography with the redesig of album covers.

I took part in the project and made two album cover redesigns, in collaboration with saxophone student Nick Vrolichs. Our artistic visions  merged in the creation of the reinterpretations of the albums Pink Floyd “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” and Dexter Gordon “Balladas”.

 
 
 
 
 

Graphic Design
Editorial Publication
Photography

Year 2022

 

Aperture/Overture is an ongoing series of photography projects to which students of Minerva Art Academy and Prince Claus Conservatoire together take part in (Hanze UAS, Groningen, NL).

For the 2021/22 edition, The Album, that celebrates the union between music and photography, a series of redesigs of album covers was made. 

I designed a booklet collecting all the artworks created. It was published and sold during the opening of the exhibition.

Minerva Photography
Minerva Art Academy

 
 
 
 
 
 

Book design: by Ilenia Trevisin. 
Curation of the promotional material: by Ilenia Trevisin & Cezara Gurău.
Photography: by Antonie Harms & Mojca Zupancic.
Printed: by Marne Veenstra.

 
 

My partecipation to the project also constisted of two album cover redesigns, made in collaboration with saxophone student Nick Vrolichs.
Our artistic visions merged in the reinterpretations of the albums Pink Floyd “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” and Dexter Gordon “Balladas”. 

 
 
 
 
 

My partecipation to the project also constisted of two album cover redesigns, made in collaboration with saxophone student Nick Vrolichs. Our artistic visions merged in the reinterpretations of the albums Pink Floyd “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” and Dexter Gordon “Balladas”. 

 

My partecipation to the project also constisted of two album cover redesigns, made in collaboration with saxophone student Nick Vrolichs.
Our artistic visions merged in the reinterpretations of the albums Pink Floyd “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” and Dexter Gordon “Balladas”. 

Weltschmerz

Reinterpretation of Dexter Gordon
– Ballads

 

Ballads is as sleepy, smoke filled and haunting as the album jacket suggests. It is an album originally compiled from a number of mostly ’60s Blue Note sessions, with the grand finale of an electrifying 16-minute “Body And Soul” track, recorded live in 1978.

Being particularly fond of jazz and blues music, the choice to design a reinterpretation of this album cover came also from the personal attachment that Nick Vrolichs has with it, as it is the album that got him into jazz in the first place. And well, it is also one of the most iconic jazz covers out there.

On the redesigned cover is a portray of the musician Nick Vrolichs (saxophone player) shot by the graphic designer and photographer llenia Trevisin. Being a cover that’s portraying Nick’s identity as a musician, the album name is in German as it is Nick’s mother tongue.
The choice for the title “Weltschmerz” come from wanting to acknowledge how we as artists sometimes find ourselves questioning making music and art in difficult times when horrific events happen, when everything around us seems to shout destruction and harm and the world just seems full of evil. The concept is best described by the definition of the German word: “a mood of weariness or sadness about life, arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering”. That being said, we hope that these slow tunes from the mighty Dexter that will sweeten and smooth your evening. Sit back and enjoy.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Sound Resounds

Reinterpretation of Pink Floyd
– The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

 

Piper At The Gates of Dawn was the debut album from Pink Floyd, and it’s the only Pink Floyd album to be made with founding member Syd Barrett. He left due to drug consumption and a deteriorating mental state, but he gave us something incredible and was a massive influence on the writing of Pink Floyd’s masterpiece Wish You Were Here, of which Ilenia is most fond of. How could this be the same Pink Floyd that did Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall? You may wonder while listening to it. Piper is a very different album to the post-Barrett works of Pink Floyd. Investigating it from the perspective of later releases will surely confuse, as this one is related to that in name only. We chose this album to make the redesign of, for this reason. Cohesion is not the strength of this LP; you are presented with the most bizarre, surreal and trippy melodies they ever made with the weirdest lyrics they ever wrote. Piper is a liberating piece because it knows no boundaries, it knows only the infinite. It tells you nothing about the ultimate nature of reality, but it tells you everything about the relative nature of order and chaos, ultimately yet lacking on pretentiousness.

The name “The sounds resound” chosen for our cover redesign, is borrowed from the lyrics of Astronomy Domine, one of the songs in the original album. The sound resounds is an invite to think of the powerful influence and resonance that music has in our lives.

The visual on the front cover is the result of a collage of different photos shot holding a kaleidoscope prism lens filter in front of the camera, which is bending light and refracting the subject, creating that reverberant effect. Our redesign is meant to picture the multiplicity of aspects of reality. It’s a call to free yourself from the fixation of wanting to understand, explain and define reality by trying to pin it down. Instead, freely embrace the now and what is happening today, letting it be.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Project Organization Team:
René Alberts (Specialist Photography Minerva), Jelle de Groot (Specialist Photography Minerva), Erika Buchanan (Master student Frank Mohr Institute) Wia Aalders (Prince Claus Conservatoire), Jorijn Storm (Prince Claus Conservatoire)

Photos of the opening event: by Jelle de Groot and René Alberts.

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