Playlist "naive"

REALISIATION

work in progress

RULEBOOK

(03/26, in work)

Selected Songs

• Senza fine von Gino Paoli
• Tu Vois C' Que Je Vois von Vanessa Paradis
• And She Was von Talking Heads
• Riverside von Agnes Obel
• L'abbandono von Gianna Nannini
• Fidelity von Regina Spektor
• Dreams von Fleetwood Mac
• Laura von Rilo Kiley
• Another World von Antony And The Johnsons
• Aventine von Agnes Obel
• Last Night von The Lostines
• Bengala von Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti
• Beware Of The Dogs von Stella Donnelly
• A Tear von The Lostines
• The Natural World von Jenny O.
• Beautiful Strangers von Kevin Morby
• Young Pilgrims von The Shins
• פלא von Rotem Bar Or 
• This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) von Talking Heads
• The New Year von Azure Ray
• New Slang von The Shins
• Happy All The Time von The Flatmates
• The Empty Boat von Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld
• Stupidly Happy von XTC
• Chicago von Ruth Acuff
• Fine von The Caulfield Sisters
• Wonderland von The Mummers
• Cactus von Pixies
• City of Stars von Ryan Gosling
• Birds Of The Night von Stella Sommer
• Song for the Songs von The Concretes
• I Honestly Love You (Reprise) von Juliana Hatfield
• Strawberry Sunday von BMX Bandits
• Call Me a Rainbow von The Mummers
• Tallulah Gosh von Tallulah Gosh
• The Water von Johnny Flynn
• Kooks von David Bowie
• Exist For Love von AURORA
• After Hours von The Velvet Underground
• 100% Endurance von Yard Act
• Cherry Heart von The Mummers

Format

The individual works are created on paper from the Carta Pura sketchpad: 140g, off-white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 17 x 24 cm

Songtitles

The song title is laid out graphically on the page using a selected font. The colours are predefined. They are created in the RGB colour space. In general, the primary colours red, green, blue, yellow, magenta and cyan have been assigned to the songs. Each primary colour is adjusted according to the numerical length of the song title and the artist’s name.

Buchstabenlisten

Von dem jeweiligen Liedtext (in [] gesetzter Text wird ignoriert) werden folgende vorkommenden Zeichen (normalisiert auf Kleinschreibun) gezählt: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, ö, ä, ü, ., -, !,: , ', ?, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Zuordnung der Zeichen zur Richtung der Reihen

Die Zeichen, welche im Liedtitel vorkommen, werden senkrecht geschrieben. Die restlichen waagrecht. Jeweils Buchstaben und Sonderzeichen.

Character lists

The following characters (normalised to lower case) are counted in the relevant song lyrics (text enclosed in [[[[]] is ignored): a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, ö, ä, ü, ., -, !,: , ', ?, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Assignment of characters to the direction of the rows

The characters that appear in the song title are written vertically. The rest are written horizontally. This applies to both letters and special characters.

Writing the lists of letters

The letters are written by hand above the printed title, starting from the centre of the page and extending halfway up and down or left and right, using a "Rotring Tikky Graphic 0.2 – pigmented ink".

Arrangement of abstractions

The abstractions are arranged so that there is a 5 mm gap between each one.

They are arranged alphabetically, from left to right and from top to bottom.

Definition of individual blocks

The individual blocks are arranged to form a portrait-oriented block. For each letter, the arrangement of the individual blocks across columns and rows is determined such that the difference between the number of columns and rows is minimised, whilst at the same time keeping the number of blank spaces in the last row as low as possible.

The individual block has a 1 cm outer margin.

Dimensions of individual units

Order of processing

Processing is carried out in ascending alphabetical order.

CONCEPT

(03/26)

For the series ‘naive Playlist’, 41 works are transformed into an abstract form:

The set of rules is based on the following parameters of the songs:

• Artist
• Song title
• Lyrics

The song title is printed on a sheet in a colourful, graphic design.

The lyrics are analysed for the letters they contain, and the letters are written manually in rows for each letter over the printed graphic text.

The positions of the rows of letters are determined by rules based on the relationships between the aforementioned parameters. Deviations are permitted in the execution based on aesthetic judgement. There are vertical and horizontal rows.

TASKS

(02/26)

• Final selection of songs
• Deciding on the format
• Considering whether the works will be created entirely digitally or with manual editing

IDEA

(02/26)

I organise my music using MediaMonkey. My music library contains 67,000 tracks. These are organised into 240 playlists. That’s far too many for me to remember anything here. That’s why I record track properties for all songs according to various criteria. To do this, I assign self-defined ‘emotions’ so that I can generate mood-based playlists. MediaMonkey has a rating scale of 0–5 stars. In February, I listened to the ‘Naive, 5 Stars’ playlist and was somehow moved by the songs. As I’d always wanted to do something with the playlists, I came up with the idea of creating an abstract, pretty sheet for each song in the playlist, based on rules.

At the time, the ‘naive 5-star’ playlist comprised 42 songs.
 

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