An extraordinary photography/music -collaboration with Stefano Zanobini, an Italian musician
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- I had a marvelous opportunity to work with Stefano Zanobini, an Italian violinist and musician, on his new music album by Tobias Hume, an interesting Scottish composer, viola da gamba player, and soldier. We created a photo book and a music CD in the size of a traditional LP record.
And now, you can order this CD and the accompanying fine art photo book here: www.novantiqua...
A special thanks goes to Olli-Pekka Karppinen (www.tampereenk...) from the Conservatory of Tampere, who helped me translate the correct translations of musical terms and instruments used by Tobias Hume in Finnish.
What an amazing project. As a child of the 60's, album covers, and especially fold out ones, were almost as important as the record itself. Truly a lost art, but maybe on it's way back (I hope). Well done Ari on what looks like a stunning set of images. I will try and get a copy of the record if I can, as long as brexit hasn't stopped me from doing that (like so much else).
A brilliant project … congratulations on this fine collaboration. Ordering my copy today! 📷🎻🎼🙂
Awesome!!!
Wow, what a great project!
That was really a lot of fun!
Fabulous!
This was so much fun!!
NovAntiqua Records is really proud to have published Ari Jaaksi & Stefano Zanobini project! A new path to know better Tobias Hume and his music.
I'm so honored to be a part of this. Thank you!!!
I just today received a copy of this and I must say, a hearty congratulations! on this project. It's beautifully executed on all levels. Well done. Very well done, indeed.
@@ChristopherPerezPhotographer Very happy to hear! Thank you for your support!
FANTASTIC! Really enjoyed hearing about this unique, collaborative project.
The whole project has been very rewarding!
This was wonderful
Thank you!
How brilliant. Great work from both of you, and what a way to present two beautiful arts in one piece.
I was so privileged to be a part of this!
Your approach to understand and interpret the composer and music and then choose from preexisting prints is interesting and for MOST of the album sleeves (and music) I have curled up with over the decades - a bit backwards. Most (not all) would go on a "shoot" for a given album cover and then maybe co-mingle a few live performance shots. I'm wondering how would the end result have been different if you had searched for the "perfect shot" . In any case, this is a wonderful endeavor which I predict will have a life of its own for decades of listeners (and readers) to come.... Immersing ones self in an album sleeve, photographs, music and liner notes for an afternoon of listening and understanding has always been once of my greatest pleasures. Look forward to receiving my order.
Oh, I so much relate. Since my teenage years, I would save money, go and buy an LP, read every word from the cover, sleeve and booklets, study who played, what instruments were used, what studio it was recorded, who is the composer, arranger etc etc. and enjoying the pictures -- while listening to the music. I miss that experience!
Yah. Even to the point where listening to a single track on the radio is only part of the discussion without the previous or following track. A crappy pair of headphones and a pile of albums was an afternoon excursion to far off places.
@@stephenm103 Totally. And even today, if I hear one of those tunes somewhere, I know exactly what is the song/tune to follow next :-)
That music and your style of photography seem like a great match. Ethereal, evocative, elegant.
Thank you!!
That’s definitely a 10/10. Great project and great video.
Thank you, thank you!
Such an inspiring and unique video. And such a creative enterprise. It's about time the packaging of CDs came into this century. Such an opportunity for you to showcase your marvelous photos.I hope it an overwhelming success.
Thank you, thank you!!
Congrats Ari and Stefano for the originality and creativity! This is a brilliant crossover and almost certain to attract followers (and copycats).
Thanks thanks!! And it was a lot of fun to do!
Wow! Thanks for sharing such an interesting and inspiring story. Cheers.
Thanks for watching!!
Chapeau Ari! This is so impressive on so many levels. Photography and music ( as a listener) are my life. Best regards.
Thanks thanks!
I wouldn´t have expected this coop, thinking of the density of Black Matel bands in Finland ;)
Deep, deep, deep! Great collaboration.
It was really a lot of fun and an honor.
Light and shadow, sound and silence, tension and ease are all choices we make whether we are making a photograph of the world or a life of ourselves. I'm happy for your honor! Have a great week!! -a random mike
Thanks thanks. Sounds and light, compositions --both musical and visuals, emotion, history .. all together :-)
Heartfelt congratulations to a wonderful project!
Thank you, thank you, my friend!
Oh, what a great and inspiring project! I love it so much. (Analog) music and (analog) photography fit perfectly together.
Because I missed the opportunity to buy your wonderful Zine some months ago I immediately bought a copy of this music book and look foreword to hold it in my hands. Thank you for that opportunity.
Awesome!!! And thanks!
An intriguing post! While I was commiserating with you about the loss of LP-size covers and artwork I thought - well, why don't you make a 30x30 book and include a CD at the back of the book - only to find out minutes later that that was exactly what you did. Bravo!
And then I couldn't resist the temptation of immediately ordering a copy of this Gesamtkunstwerk from Italy. Finally a chance for me to actually "own" a collection of your Images.
By the way: music and photography have a long history of complementing each other in the collection of Manfred Eicher's ECM records. OK, only in the meagre format of CD cases and the tiny booklets they contain. But it's there all right. And sometimes I'm not sure whether I bought the CDs for the music or for the evocative photography in the booklets, mostly in B&W.
Thanks for your inspiring contribution ...
Thank you!! Yes, a tiny CD booklet can be like a zine -- and some of them are really nice!
Congratulations! What a wonderful project.
It has been a marvellous project.
Hyvä Ari! Congratulations!
Kiitos!!!
Wonderful way of showing you never know your work with a camera gets out there
Yes, these opportunities come when you keep on doing what you love :-)
Brilliant concept ....I'd actually like to buy a couple of the books ....but the website is impossible to navigate ...😟
I'm so sorry to hear. I pass this info forward .....
I miss album art. When I look at my old albums and compare with the cd’s that I updated them with I find no soul in the tiny versions.
I so much agree!
Photography is not visual but musical and piano is black and white. Incredibile, vero?
Brilliant concept ...I'd actually like to buy a couple of the books, but the website is impossible to navigate!
I'm so sorry to hear. I'll let the publisher know!
Wow that is very cool!!! Also beautiful instrument!!! I am still not fully understanding how you decided to pick the photographs to the music. Was it by research of the song or his life and what the song felt and what the picture felt? I am probably overthinking this because I don’t understand the process. If you were to put a picture or series of pictures to one of your favorite songs what would the song and the picture be and why? This was a great and thought provoking video!! Thank you!!!
The selection process was mostly emotional. But I also wanted to understand Hume's life and reflect on that to the best of my abilities. So I studied him and his life. I also studied Humes's original compositions on paper and tried to understand the harmonics, melodies, and structures. Just to get to the same wavelength.
Then, I selected a theme for each section and started to go through my photos. At some point, I had probably hundreds of alternatives - and then, finally, I selected these.
So some systematic work, but mostly intuition. 🙂. Thanks for asking!!! Maybe I should have explained that better ....