It is obvious that 3D technology offers more creativity to sectors. Designers, cake makers, artists, they all push their limits with this technology. Can this also be true for the music industry? You might be confused.However music is also 3D printed. How? With the cooperation of musician Thomas Vaquie and AntiVJ.
Sound waves are visualised and cast in concrete to make the cover for Brussels-based musician Thomas Vaquié’s album Ecume. Belgian visual label AntiVJ worked with Swiss artist Yannick Jacquet to turn the album’s tracks into physical waveforms, which are arranged into topographical imagery reminiscent of the surface of the moon.
Jacquet used a custom digital visualisation tool to analyse the songs. The artist then 3D-printed these “sonic landscapes”, and used a silicone mould of that print to create a concrete cast. The piece was lit and photographed for the album’s artwork, which features matt and laminate sections to echo the texture of the concrete.
According to AntiVJ, this project is part of an on going effort to showcase how music itself can spur imagination. “At a time when music seems to be forced—too often and too hard it feels—to be augmented or justified by visual impact, AntiVJ Recordings wants to reaffirm the capacity held within the medium of sound itself to feed the imagination,” states the label.