A few months ago, Scott Ailing, a singer from NYC, approached me asking 
whether I could provide cover art for his debut CD. He had had a picture 
of mine (Serenity) as his wallpaper for about a year and was interested 
in having a modified version for the cover, not the usual diamond case 
but a cardboard trifold. The main modification he wanted was to have 
some mechanical players for the instruments. We reached an agreement, 
and after some tests I provided three pictures, two modified from the 
Simplicity series for the covers and one modified from Serenity for the 
three-wide center-fold, and instead of making some more or less 
stereotypical robots, I turned the string instruments into a kind of 
self-players and one of them into a harpichordium player. I have 
attached the two outer cover pictures -- larger version of them, the 
center-fold and the picture for the 5' x 6' release party poster (all 
without titles, which I didn't design) can be found at

    http://galeria.galactinus.org/vilva/scott.html

(with a link to Scott's CD info at his web site)

I haven't seen the printed covers yet as the record hasn't been released
(the release party will be on Friday, August 13, at the Lincoln Center, 
NYC), but Scott wrote telling me that the proofs looked very good, 
people were blown away -- as he put it.

   Veijo

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