Final Song Selection & Format; Struggles

Final Song Selection

The 1975 - I like it when you sleep

Arcade Fire - Some other place

Pet Cemetery - Birthstone (reprise)

Michael Cera - 2048

Keaton Henson - Can't help falling in love

Modern Baseball - I think I you were in my profile picture once

Practical Format

Thinking about how each 3D practical piece would be presented is something I've been trying to consider throughout this brief. Right now I'm thinking that a way to maybe get the pieces to work as a set would be to have each of them displayed in a box format that was consistent. Built with four panels, each set would be an open box so the insides could be viewed by the audience as they listened to the track.

Initially I was thinking about making each of the backgrounds out of clay also so that they would fit with the characters, but with revisions of time I no longer think that would be a viable solution. Maybe the backgrounds could be paper cut or painted on? Would this fit with the clay figurines though?

Application

The pieces themselves will run as part of a 'collective album launch', containing the chosen musicians and tracks, as if it were to be released as one album. The 3D pieces would be shown on display while the album, on vinyl, CD and cassette, would be available to purchase with one of the six pieces of photographed artwork on the front.

Struggles

So far however I'm struggling a little with what I want to communicate with these pieces. Are they more of a Fine Artist response to tracks or are they pieces of album artwork to be commercially sold? Can they be both? I've played around with the idea of putting the songs into an order that tells an abstract story, repeating characters in different pieces to make it more understandable. But I'm struggling with putting the songs in an order that makes sense, and this idea may over complicate the whole thing; perhaps things need to be simplified down?