Bumtschak Welle is a music project that brings together Arno’s work as both an author and a musician, created together with his wife Magdalena Schwärzer. Over many years, it has grown into a layered universe that includes concerts as a combination of readings and music, a release on vinyl and CD, and a volume of poetry.
What was needed was an approach for a project whose strength lies precisely in the in-between. Reading and concert, language and sound, book and recording all interlock here. The design task was to take that connection seriously and find a form in which neither one nor the other takes over. Music cannot be separated from literature.
The starting point was a series of brush works by Ines Dejaco, which were further developed by Arno and then brought into the studio. This way of working directly reflected the character of the project itself: something shared, something that had grown over time, not made by one hand alone and all the richer for it.
The design combines this reworked source material with photography and graphic development to create a visual identity that grows closely out of the project itself. The photographs by Manuel Ferrigato give the whole thing an additional presence, while the visual language carries the character of Bumtschak Welle further across concert, text, and recording. The fact that many people were involved in this process is part of what gives the result its quality.
