About Undated Records
Intentions
- Simulating the thrill of buying records which looked good and turned out to sound good
- An open-ended creative experiment
- Design practice
- Art therapy
- Fun
Rules
- Include band name, all song titles, and catalog number
- Embrace impulse: no obligation to be consistent or plan ahead
- No reworking of real covers
- Appropriate for store display
Process
- Mix elements, embrace the subconscious, chance, and flaws
- Find links, contradictions, and provocative ambiguities that suggest the non-rational, non-verbal pleasures of music
- Assume that anything I see or sense fits the songs
Thanks
A number of people helped me with this project, directly or indirectly. Alphabetically:
- Patricia Anderson
- Mary Durell
- Kathy Finney
- Ken Goffman
- Mark Hanson
- Jay Kinney
- Mark Landkamer
- Tony Lane
- Bethann Rea
Results
Over 1,200 daydream artifacts, design experiments, art therapy exercises, meditative images, puzzles, and jokes. 110 have been printed.
About Jay Cornell
I’m Head of Content at RolloutSF, a full-service web design, development, and marketing agency. I’m the co-author (with R. U. Sirius) of Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity.