Illustration of a bookshelf upon which sits a phrenology bust with music related terms carved into the cranium.
Illustration of a bookshelf upon which sits a phrenology bust with music related terms carved into the cranium.

Past the Noise

(2020) Kapsule [Postgrad]

Musical preferences are far from static. From first exposure to getting deeper into new sounds, there is some interesting psychology at work.

J Card design for the Posterboy Mixtape
With an oboe held diagonally across her body, a young girl in a long red dress is poised to play. Illustrated poster artwork for World Music Day.
With a chisel-tip marker, a young girl pulls a line of red ink across the surface of an A4 drawing pad.
Shown in profile, the cross section of man's head reveals the lobes of the brain are an arrangement of brightly coloured carnations.
Lit by a warm glow, Posterboy wields the paste drenched brush he uses for hanging up his posters.
A sumi painting brush rests in the beak of a wayward gazing lapwing.
The creative thoughts of a young girl are augmented by the circuitry of an AI neural network.
Tucked in the beak of a bewildered homing bird, a hand-written list is flown through the air
An anthropomorphised tree stands smiling with red leaves abloom
Flying with wings raised, a white dove carries a slice of watermelon with its feet.
Sat amid the trees in his pull wagon, Posterboy uses traditional mark-making tools to draw up the new artwork to be hung.
A profile portrait of Posterboy, chin raised with his poster tube at the ready.
With corresponding eyewear and clothing print, three young kids embrace their chosen screen colours; red, green and blue
An anthropomorphised hotdog stands wearing a tennis headband and drizzled in mustard
A floral assortment emerges from an artist's palette and paint brushes.
With crayons in hand, a young girl uses an upright easel and canvas to draw a large picture of herself.
With a Palestinian flag held to its side, a white dove wearing an arabic kufiya casually smokes a cigarette.
An array of herbs and vegetables are sent flying from the colander of a headless chef.
A rooster stood upon the screen of an upturned smartphone crows in the dawn light.
A note whistled from Posterboy becomes a convenient perch for his feathered companion Lapi.
A double bass player taps on computer keys that lay where his bass strings would ordinarily be found.
An infant learns to play the xylophone.
Illustrated decorative poster depicting the profile of a daydreaming woodsman set amid a billowing foliage of herbal leaves.
A mallard stands poised in high heels and accessories.
A spectacled character with a back-turned cap holds up a giant computer pointer, arguably the most active icon in visual communication online.
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