In L.A. Now, a Los Angeles Times blog, Bettie Rinehart covers A Sound Design, the fall exhibition about album art at the USC Libraries. She writes, "One of the reasons some album covers have entered the ranks of 'iconic' is that they not only look the way the music folded within them sounds, but they also add something powerful to the sensory experience as a whole. At least we think so. How can the mysterious pantheon of characters on Sgt. Pepper's cover not inform the listening experience of 'Lovely Rita' or 'A Day in the Life?' Once you started dissecting the significance of the lineup, from Edgar Allan Poe to Aleister Crowley and Sigmund Freud, how could you not want to deconstruct every song on that album?"
A Sound Design Exhibition featured in Los Angeles Times Blog
- Bill Dotson
- Sep 22, 2008