Saturday, September 10, 2022

BEAUTY: Digital Collage--Maia Valenzuela

Apropos of my David Bowie posting yesterday, here, where an AI created images for each line of his iconic "Space Oddity" song, artist Maia Valenzuela has created a digital collage for each track of every album Bowie ever recorded! Some of my favorites she created are from "Low," his first album in a trio that has become known as The Berlin Trilogy. If you know the album, you will see she captured a sense of each song. And if you don't know the album, treat yourself and find a way to listen to the entire thing. Released in 1977, smack in the middle of the disco and punk eras, this avant-garde-ambient-electronic-abstract collection which had nothing to do with any other music of the time stumped even Bowie fans. Produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, with flashes of typical genius from Brian Eno, previously here, it sounds nothing like anything else Bowie created up to that point, and indeed unlike almost anything else that was being recorded by anyone else at the time. The musical and lyrical offerings on "Low" are minimal but pack quite a punch.

Speed Of Life
Breaking Glass
What In The World
Sound And Vision
Always Crashing In The Same Car
Be My Wife
A New Career In A New Town
Warszawa
Art Decade
Weeping Wall
Subterraneans

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