VS. and the way Bizarre understands a music and design crossover.

Its obvious for me how design and music are close from each other. I think they have some identical creative process, especially nowadays but present since ever. For example, most of the times you can guess the kind of music of a CD just looking at the cover, without listening to it. What we tried and we’re still trying to do is put design and music even closer, to get it further the record covers, trying to reach a borderline where they could be so close that we could not distinguish what is design and what is music. Maybe it’s utopic or it’s simply stupid but we’re very interested in trying to do it anyway. Last year in Eletronika Festival our showcase presented 3 different ways to mix graphics and sounds, they were ‘Objeto Amarelo vs Femur’, ‘National + A’ ‘ and a bizarre presentation of Golden Shower. In 2003 Mateus one of the partners of Bizarre and the head of the design studio Lobo took to OFFF Festival in Barcelona an idea which was originally conceived to Bizarre’s shows, but entirely developed inside Lobo, which consists in a software that transforms music lines into graphic behaviors for virtual graphic creatures.

Just to mention one more thing, and to show our specific interest in this topic, one guy of Bizarre’s crew, Ronin owns a rough but very interesting website with all the covers of one of more talented Brazilian record cover designers of 60’s, CEsar Vilela.

Record Covers: Transistor + Objeto Arrarelo + Bizarre, Sampler + Tetiene

Why Bizarre’s record covers have been considered so special in the Brazilian design scene?

Thanks… maybe because we like record covers. I don’t know why but I know many of the most creative brazilian graphic designers, and they are all my friends. most of the times I invite someone to do a record cover for one of our releases, then we put together the band and the designer (when they are not the same person…) to discuss the artwork. Just to mention some designers who made record covers for us, Rafael Lain, Lobo, A’, Cisma, Julio Dui, Alexandre Suanes, Guilherme Marcondes, Carlos Issa and Carlos Billa. I must tell that sometimes we had no choice and the cover simply came with the record… no one is perfect…

Thanks very much for your interview. As you are giving this interview to a japanese site could you tell us if there is any Japanese artist/band that you (Bizarre Music) would like to release?

Yeah, of course. I love Takako Minekawa and Nobukazu Takemura. I try to love Merzbow.

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