So I think I've heard from this list that the fractured-patterned line
graphics on the Autechre covers don't correspond with the music itself. With
that in mind......
Brian Eno's Music for Airports has a pictogram-ish graphic identified on the
liner art for each of the 4 tracks. It seems like there's a bit of
resemblence between the tracks and the graphics. The first track has a
graphic of a single phrase repeated numerous times, with different
components highlighted each time, which matches the audio track. The 2nd
track, which is seemingly sonically unsyncopated, has an appropriate graphic
where individual sections repeat, but with different offsets, so they don't
mesh rhythmically. Also, the 2nd track uses only voices, so the pictogram
features only shaded boxes for that track, whereas the other tracks have
multiple symbols to correspond with their richer palette of sounds.
It looks like they're supposed to be some sort of universal symbolic
transcription or score of each song, like something NASA would shoot up in
the deep space probe for extraterrestrial life or something. Or maybe a
computer printout of the pattern entered into a sequencer for each song. But
this was 1978; had a computer sequencer been created yet at that time?
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