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SELECT SOUND DESIGN/COMPOSITION WORK FOR PRADA. ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN BY 2X4.

Prada continues its love affair with synthetic nature in a #PradaFW16 silk organza dress embroidered with winking daisies and painstakingly hand-finished with extraordinary artificial flowers. Imagine Prada’s Thinking Woman wearing this sunniest of smiles to devastating, ironic effect. #PradaDress #PradaPrint

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A #PradaFW16 silk drawstring bag interpreted as an interior landscape: meters of heavy black silk transformed into a midnight sky embroidered with a foreboding constellation of glistening glass beads. #PradaPrint

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Happy 2017 Year of the Rooster #ChineseNewYear

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A novel elegance. #PlexRibbon is available in stores now and at prada.com. Link in bio. #PradaSS17

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A moment of beauty transfixed in reality. #PlexRibbon bag is available in four unique colourways in stores now and at prada.com. Link in bio. #PradaSS17

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Splendor transforms with the #PlexRibbon bag, featuring extra-long, double leather ribbon in a diagonal cut. Available in stores now and at prada.com. Link in bio. #PradaSS17

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Slide into the #PlexRibbon bag, featuring a coloured acrylic resin loop with black trim. Available in stores now and at prada.com. Link in bio. #PradaSS17

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The #PlexRibbon bag eases into simplicity, with a detachable leather shoulder strap, steel hardware, metal lettering, and a plexiglass clasp with leather loop. Available in stores now and at prada.com. Link in bio. #PradaSS17

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Prada hi-tech keychains charge and store data while Saffiano phone cases protect technology. See the Prada holiday gift guide (link in bio). #PradaHoliday

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Classic Prada card sets and board games, collectible bracelets, wallets, and more form a vast world of holiday gift ideas, available now (link in bio). #PradaHoliday

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Prada backpacks and weekenders for holiday travel plans—from exotic to interior exploration (link in bio). #PradaBag #PradaWeekender #PradaHoliday

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Getting to know #PradaSS17 at 7 Rue de Grenelle, Paris. #PradaVerite

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Foliage motifs are refined into a singular gestures.The new #MinimalBaroque collection is available starting tomorrow in Prada stores, selected retailers worldwide and on Prada.com. #PradaEyewear

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Gold's lustrous brightness survives time and symbolizes eternity, yet it can be annealed and spun into multiple forms, multiple meanings. For #PradaFW16, red and gold entwine into a romantic bow, designed to last forever. #PradaPrint

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#PradaPrint deep-dives into a sea of fabric to animate the fine details, symbols and hidden emotions discovered just beyond pure surface. Created for #PradaFW16 to arrive at peak summer: the Hibiscus-print Hawaiian shirt for men and women. The clear hues of the pattern are achieved by inkjet print technology, with motifs matched perfectly at the placket and seams.The orange pop of the Hibiscus (Hawaii’s state flower) playfully floats alongside the green leaves of the "Monstera Deliciosa", to evoke a tropical paradise.

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The project consists of an audio score played in a 13 channel stereo audio installation with a slab-like bench positioned in the center of the speaker array.

The project is based around Erik Satie’s seminal work Gymnopedie No 1. I have collected and compiled every commercially available version of this short piano piece, each one performed by a different player, and each one having it’s own idiosyncratic personality (timing, background noise, performers interpretation).

I have taken each of these performances and I have overlaid them on top of one another in a multi track audio environment. Additionally I have taken each version and I have stretched out the timing of each track to the total length of a commercially available compact disc (approx 72 minutes). The pitch and tone of this stretching stays the same, only the timing gets slowed down.

What this creates is a slow sonorous ambient environment with roots to the original, but they’ve been smeared out into an impressionistic whole. An underwater-like slow cacophony that is both beautiful and engaging, while becoming something new entirely. 

The work is the cumulinative “end-point” for Satie’s original piece, widely considered to be the earliest precursor to modern “ambient” music. Lauded by visionaries like John Cage and used in countless film soundtracks, it is a part of the history of 20th Century Modernism and also a part of our collective unconscious. I take this single work, which has no “original” recording (only interpretations) and transform it into an ultimate ambient environment.