The latest work for Petcord involved an electroacoustic piece extraordinaire by Portuguese composer Ziur, André Ruiz (spell it backwards to get the moniker) in real life, called Stantia. Terseness is the key element not just in the selection of titles, but also in the use of motifs, which provides the acousmatic music a crystalline and rather cold appearance. Often based on natural sound sources, it’s the isolation from the context and reassemblage of those bits and pieces that causes the strangeness in sound, much like the principle I use as a base for cover artwork, so finding a translation for the music was a rather easy task for me.

The cover itself is dominated by geometric structures put into shape by the Golden Ratio and Tribonacci Constant (especially on the back), but this time in combination with circle and elipse segments as a contrast. I focused on creating a different way of text integration than on previous covers and fortunately this is one of the more lucky experiments with form and function. The beauty of ratios, numbers and maths in general as a representation of structuring a plane. Friends of botany may have already recognised that the vine on the left half of the front is Solanum Dulcamara.