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# The Obverse Box
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/the-obverse-box/
- Published: 2014-05-15T11:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-13T13:34:39.000Z
- Description: Deru's latest album is launched in the form of a wooden projector that must be in use to hear the tracks within
- Author: Maks Fus Mickiewicz
- Tags: Seeds, Music, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

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Musician and sound designer [Benjamin Wynn](http://deru.tumblr.com/?ref=protein.xyz), aka Deru, follows in the footsteps of [Wu-Tang Clan](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2014/03/once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin?ref=protein.xyz) by releasing his latest album in the form of a limited-edition artifact.   
  
[1979](http://shop.1979.la/buy/?ref=protein.xyz) comes packaged inside a wooden projector, dubbed The Obverse Box, which requires users to play nostalgia-infused videos - directed by Anthony Cianname - in order to listen to the tracks.  
  
At its core the album is about ”emotions and collective memories”. Wynn discovered the original Obverse Box at a flea market in 2003, and he worked for over a year, along with artist Jon Mendez and industrial engineer Roberto Crespo, to turn it into a collectible item designed for fans to cherish. Currently, only fifty copies of The Obverse Box are available for pre-order and are set to ship in mid-June.  
  
Deru’s experiment brings to mind another innovative, vinyl-based project, [The Endangered Song](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2014/04/the-endangered-song?ref=protein.xyz), which also explored the absence of tangibility in the world of music.

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