MUKESH AMARAN
ALBUM
ARTicle:
LAINE
BUTLER
Laine Butler is the album artist of the
month. The visual artist and Music Producer
from Vancouver , BC, Canada is the brains
behind the I M U R album THIRTY33’s
cover art. We spent some time getting
into the life of this multi talented artist.
1. Hello, a little bit about yourself and your background in arts and music?
I’m a visual artist and Music producer from Vancouver, BC,
Canada. I started playing guitar at the age of seven then fell in
love with electronic music in my later teenage years. I started
crudely recording local highschool bands in my parents
basement. I also played in a few bands and I’ve produced
under a few pseudonyms throughout the years and performed
throughout Canada.
In high school I took a graphic design class, I really didn’t
care for it then. I started making a comic book from photos
messed in photoshop with my brother. That’s when it kinda
clicked that I loved making visual art.
2. At this point in your career, what role did music have to play in you
getting to where you are, both as a musician and a visual artist.
It’s been a pretty interesting path. If it wasn’t for my musical
involvement with Chapel Sound and the Vancouver artist
community then I for sure wouldn’t have a career in Visual
Art. It has definitely opened doors with many local artists and
collectives. Chapel Sound used to run a monthly night called
Subshop, which was a beat critique and then a showcase of
Vancouver's Bass and electronic music talent. It was very
much a D.I.Y playground for us and that's where I turned on
the projector and went down the visual art rabbit hole.
3. Tell us about your collaboration with IMUR (THIRTY33) from conception,
the process of creation and the finished piece.
I M U R reached out to me, and another artist, Eli Muro to
work with them on the conceptualization for the art for their
project. We had a brief and went through a bunch of idea's,
then one day I was messing around with Cinema4D, using
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gradients and making abstract geometry. I showed it to them
one day while they were doing a photo shoot, and they seemed
keen. 6 months later they reached back out and asked to
use it for album art, and Amine, using his ultra photoshop
abilities created the beautiful layout along with Eli's Logo for
the band. It was pretty amazing seeing a collaboration come
together like that!
4. Audio Visual sets are gaining a lot more popularity amongst fans of
today. In a gig, do visuals play a supporting role with music as the primary
or do they have an equal role to play in the overall experience?
I really enjoy this question. In set's I work on, I try to make
sure the visuals play more of a supporting role, but in
that sense, like it's another band member. Visuals should
harmonize with the music, certain musical frequencies tend
to relate really well with various colours. This coupled with
the visual contents rhythm and tempo really helps support
the band or act.
5. Tell us more about Chapel Sound Music and Art Collective.
Chapel Sound is a music and Art Collective out of Vancouver.
It consists of a ton of local talent. It pretty much started in
Sean Oh and Eli Muro's living room then expanded with
the powerhouse that is Nancy Lee and various other crew
members. www.chapelsound.org has a great write up that
goes into a bit more of the history of the group. The collective
put's on shows and events and helps out the local creative
community with events. Some pretty large names seem to
have gone through there. I consider it more of an institution,
helping each other, lending each other's talents and vision to
help one another to build some pretty amazing things.