Experimental music defies mainstream sound by incorporating genres and techniques against what’s naturally pleasing to the ear. The avant-garde nature of experimental music aligns with Dada’s opposition to tradition. At the forefront is Arca, a Venezuelan musician pioneering radical music studies. Her music explores controversial and provocative themes, matched with disruptive yet melodic sounds.
kiCK iiiii is the fifth studio album by Arca, featuring eclectic sounds and experimental noises challenging contemporary music. By visualizing a disorienting and almost nonsensical graphic scene, this album cover design converges the stylistic and conceptual parallels between Dada and Arca. The minimal use of a grid and randomization of various shapes calls back to Dada’s unsystematic style and Arca’s use of atypical sounds with idiosyncratic synthesization.
Software
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
