What happens when musicians make use of ideas and strategies from the
art world? And what kind of pictures result when painters are influenced
by music? To be interested in other people's lives, to follow the
unknown, to copy it, to use it in one's own work--in short, to cross-map
between the worlds of music and the visual arts: this is the subject of
HYPER! A Journey into Art and Music curated by Max Dax, the former
editor-in-chief of Spex and Electronic Beats. The book will include
classic works such as Peter Saville's ground-breaking album cover for
New Order's 1983 masterpiece Power, Corruption and Lies, and the
narrative, minimalist imagery of Emil Schult on which the cover of
Kraftwerk's 1974 album, Autobahn, was based, and Cyprien Gaillard's
acclaimed 3D installation, Night Life, from 2015. The mutual
influences between music and art will be illustrated with examples by
Albert Oehlen and Scooter, Thomas Scheibitz and the Melvins, as well as
Daniel Blumberg. Photographs and video works by Andrea Stappert, Sven
Marquardt, Andreas Gursky, The KLF, Mark Leckey, and Bettina Pousttchi
will lend the book a documentary dimension. The book is narratively
underpinned by numerous background interviews that Max Dax conducted
with the participants in HYPER! over the past thirty years.
