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Project Overview

Requested by freelance musician Andreas Wetås Jara on behalf of the Stavanger Chamber Music Festival, my friend Anna Frøiland was invited to create a logo and illustration for their upcoming children’s performance “TrillTrall – The Search for the Melody.”
I was asked to join her on the project — something I was truly happy to be part of!

The brief of the customer in Norwegian:
Jakten på melodien 
For hvert menneske som lever på jorden finnes det minst én unik melodi. Noen melodier arves, andre lånes og noen glemmes. Plutselig en dag forsvinner en av de mest folkekjære og kjente melodiene i verden. Har den gått tapt i alt mylderet av lyd, eller finnes den der ute et sted? Vi legger ut på en reise i melodiens og harmoniens verden, i jakten på den forsvunne melodien.

Barneforestillingen bygger på samspillet mellom musikk, dans og drama. Den nykomponerte musikken skal hente inspirasjon fra ulike genre og i motiver som finnes i den eldre og nyere musikkhistorien. Vi ønsker at forestillingen skal være en god arena for barn å utforske sin musikalitet og kreativitet, og at forestillingen kan føre til at skapertrang og skaperevne vekkes i det unge publikummet. For Kammermusikkfestivalen i Stavanger 2022 A. W. Jara

The brief of the customer translated to English:
The search for the melody
For every person living on earth there is at least one unique melody. Some melodies are inherited, others are borrowed and some are forgotten. Suddenly one day one of the most popular and well-known melodies in the world disappears. Has it been lost in all the myriad of sound, or is it out there somewhere? We embark on a journey in the world of melody and harmony, in search of the lost melody.

The children's performance is based on the interaction between music, dance and drama. The newly composed music will draw inspiration from various genres and motifs found in the older and newer music history. We want the performance to be a good arena for children to explore their musicality and creativity, and that the performance can lead to the urge to create and creativity being awakened in the young audience. For the Chamber Music Festival in Stavanger 2022 A. W. Jara

Process

We were inspired by movement in music and found The Dance by Henri Matisse particularly fascinating. The painting captures a powerful sense of togetherness — figures connected in a continuous flow — much like music itself, which is always in motion and shared among many.

We created a few initial sketches to see if we were the right fit for the project and quickly discovered that great minds do think alike. The client loved the early concepts, so we continued developing the sketches and created a color palette that resonated with their vision.

Results

We gave the customer a few options, but they had fallen in love with the original sketch, and so the more detailed version of the original came to life:

Here with the poster used for marketing: