Sufjan Stevens has released his latest album on New Music Friday – stream it right there.
Sufjan Stevens‘ latest record Reflections collects the score for the Justin Peck ballet of the same name, performed by pianists Conor Hanick and Timo Andres.
Of the artwork, inspired by the mid-century works of the Delaunays, designer Jessica Slaven has said:
“In these drawings, I wanted to see what would happen if I created a series of large compositions and then cut them apart to attend to each of the cut components individually, away from the eventual finished work.”
The conversations and relationships that developed once the component pieces came back together were unexpected, and I found that they revealed themselves both instantaneously and very slowly. Sufjan’s idea to animate the drawings and paintings was a great surprise and joy, as it takes the original elements of chance, circumstance, and re-combination much further.
“The emotions and tensions created in Stephen’s animations are a further revelation into the language of the works, and his visualisations return the wholes back into new parts, yielding vibrant new conversation.”