Rhythm Factory :: The Mortal Mickey [Day 054]
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Eric has worked in print design since 1991, even attending old-school press checks and requesting Chromalin keys back in the day. Now, he works through the digital print age with a history and experience with color reproduction which includes the era when the agency where he worked had a color print bureau in house and he was always busy trying to trick out what would fit through a commercial laser printer without breaking it.
The attention to detail with print carries through to the Day For Night Catalogue, which is an edition of 100 CDs/CD-Rs/DVD releases in commercial jewel casing, as well as the Bandcamp limited collection of 7″ EPs, all items from which are printed and manufactured (hand-assembled) on-site by the artist himself.
The commercial print portfolio of work by Eric Scott, where featured as Art Director includes:
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CD | Download Unlike anything else found in this catalogue, “Found2: A Stone” (Day 028) takes the listener along a naturally evolving, atmospheric journey, leading to unknown sonic realms… a series of underground railway stations, back alleys, cloisters, and disused quarries… Found merges raw sound recordings into an ambient electronic musical score.
CD | Download Mr. No-Logo launches an hommage to the Bristol music scene tradition with “Bristol’s Massive” (Day 039) an “orange” rough-house of downtempo and breakbeat influences, touching down upon a trip-hop fusion of dark ambient and electro, and drawing from a mixed bag of vocalese sampladelics with electronica. “2ndary” interprets dictaphone allegory, where “Mook” […]
Salvador Dalek Music Video Peter Moraites “Program Yourself” Music Video (Day 077.dvd) from Day For Night. “Program Youself” by Peter Moraites (with typography by Alyson Boote and music by Salvador Dalek) became the #1 featured video on YouTube, and had been put into rotation on a Washington DC-based NBC cable affiliate, dedicated to the arts. Before all […]
CD | Download “Music For Targeted Television Advertising” (Day 052) shows Rhythm Factory – composer/producer Eric Scott – releasing an eclectic, electronic soundtracks compilation to coincide with the latest video scores. Despite the Eno-esque references made by its ironic title, this 2005 collection is composed of professionally-commissioned soundtracks, representing Eric Scott’s underscores and output for commercial clients […]
DVD | Download For “Emotion” (Day 029) Eric Scott presents a history of both personal and professional work, through interviews, motion and sequential graphics design for broadcast and web, enriching them with original music and audio design. These samples of client work exist to inspire, amuse, inform, and rouse the intellect and emotions. This promotional work […]
CD | Download “Listen” (Day 018) is the first installment of musique concrète of the Found series. Originating as a library of rejected snips from the multimedia audio design process, these ten themed pieces (Flutters, Bodily Noises, Voices, Percussive Rhythms, etc.) also form the basis for much of the audio design in Day For Night’s commissioned work, […]
CD | Download With “Soundsystem 0.0.1” (Day 086) digital dub-plate fanatic King FM infuses electr-dub with a hint of roots reggae in this light and summery outing. Comprising eight bass-heavy, downtempo thumpers, King FM is about an instinct to preserve a chilled-out blend of clicks and cuts, vibing against low, smooth bass and rattling, exotic percussion lines.
Blog (Eric Scott: Words) | Podcast An evolving online work, “Obsessions” incorporates Eric Scott‘s essays and Situationist rants of the hour.“…Filtered through me, everything – values, music, inspiration, comedy, art, sound, nature, archival strategies, typography, the Spectacle – eventually becomes Day For Night.”View OBSESSIONS Blog
CD / Download Rhythm Factory “Saves The Day” (Day 044) draws further from ambient, jungle and progressive house, as composer / producer Eric Scott unveils a series of electronica miniatures.
CD | Download Peter Moraites is by nature a visual artist, and this shows through in his musical atmospheres. From his background as writer, director, illustrator, photographer and editor, Moraites leans every instrument towards its most percussive qualities; emphasizing hammered guitar strings, pizzicato trombones, tentative but mellifluous piano lines, and the occasionally identifiable 4/4 rhythm […]
CD | Download “On the Trail of the Latin House Lover” (Day 042) shows Rhythm Factory exploring – while getting lost in a pre-Autumnal – new musical territory. Composer/producer Eric Scott is at his most spatial here, opening with a meditational trilogy: the beatless “AESM (Light Remix),” melding into the percussive ambient mind-field of “The Stenotelegrapher” and resolving […]
CDR | Download NIGHTfonts, an imprint of Day For Night, came into existence as part of a greater mission; to create and distribute new typefaces that read well with concern for the limitations of screen-based viewing. “Control” (Day 047), the first family of NIGHTfonts, consists of 6 Truetype font faces available for Mac or PC: NF […]
CD | Download “Lullabies For Cats” (Day 051) compiles the avant-garde jazz-classical tracks of composer Eric Scott, from the period 1991-2002, fuses them into a 65-minute mix of concert-hall cinematica.
Book | Words & Images by Eric Scott For “Manifesto” (Day 017) Day For Night rethink sub-urban planning, in a typographic journal and overview of Day For Night. Post-Situationist propaganda films covers the walls of NIGHTlinkRail, hammering on about the overthrow of cultural leadership and the entertainment channels that fuel “big news.” Post-revolution theories abound; albeit tongue-in-cheek, while […]
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Sitework | Interactive Fiction | Non-Fiction On the surface, Day 071 “The True Wheel” is a metaphor for consistency and repetition within a symmetrical structure or framework. It borrows its title from the Brian Eno song off “Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy” in which a repeating, circular 3-chord sequence develops over a four-bar pattern, creating […]
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CD / Download Rhythm Factory “The Case of the Chiming Clock” (Day 042) lifts the shroud, and reduces the fictitious, mystery-solving electronics trio to a solo artist. Producer and composer Eric Scott draws influence from the ambient (“Drumbience Modulator”), drum’n’bass (“Snake Charmer,” “Swing Kids Fly Off”, “®-018”) and breakbeat (“Gamma”) as much as straightforward techno (“Burst […]
Site | Identity Design A weathered alley-side storefront, re:Fresh is accessible in a mere 15 second’s walk (one click) from the home site. At the gallery’s entrance, a tenant directory displays the following roster of tenant options, alongside a stack of door buzzers. They read:1. re:Fresh Design Gallery2. TonStudio3. Poetic License4. NIGHTloops Audio Library5. The […]
CD | Download With “Primer” (Day 034), Rhythm Factory (producer/composer Eric Scott) replaces a darker outer coat of ambient IDM electronica, with a lighter, latex micropercussion as its dominant texture. Presenting a set of instrumental explorations: “Bianca,” “Microhomemusic,” “Auntie Nell’s Cash Skeleton” and “Quillocet” define the edges of the stage. Depending upon one’s interpretation of the word primer; […]
Art Direction / Print & CD Packaging Design Zebra Records compilation made up of song contributions from Chaka Khan, Brenda Russell, Vince Mendoza, Lori Perry, Gino Vanelli, Toots Thielemans, Al Jarreau, Mark Portmann and The Yellowjackets. Zebra Records, the brainchild of label owner Ricky Schultz, brought a new label re-launch campaign to the attention of Eric […]
Art Direction / Print & CD Packaging Design Zebra Records, the brainchild of label owner Ricky Schultz, brought a new label re-launch campaign to the attention of Eric Scott was at the time working full-time as art director. The creative brief included updating the label’s brand and designing a unifying look for all the releases with […]
Art Direction / Print & CD Packaging Design The Zebra Acoustic label re-release of music written by Charlie Chaplin, who is long remembered as a golden era film actor, but often overlooked for having composed music for the cello. The recordings were performed by Thomas Beckmann and Johannes Cernola. Zebra Records, the brainchild of label owner Ricky Schultz, brought a […]
Art Direction / Print & CD Packaging Design In 1997, the successful “Tambu” campaign and tour were followed in 1997 by a collection of the Toto’s archival “XX”. This collection of unreleased, rare and live tracks from the band’s career necessitated the journey through a vault of photographs, recordings and collectibles, in search of the […]