The Obverse Box
Deru's latest album is launched in the form of a wooden projector that must be in use to hear the tracks within
Musician and sound designer Benjamin Wynn, aka Deru, follows in the footsteps of Wu-Tang Clan by releasing his latest album in the form of a limited-edition artifact.
1979 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, which also explored the absence of tangibility in the world of music.
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