Strange Sounds From Beyond

Strange Sounds From Beyond (SSFB) is an Amsterdam-based festival and platform for cross-spectrum music. The work is based upon Suprematism, the Russian art movement emphasizing “the supremacy of pure artistic feeling.” Shapes are excerpted from Malevich works; type is in “dialogue” with the shapes, connected via the diagonal lines that create a sense of gradient movement. A custom typeface from GT America—combining American Gothic and European Grotesque faces—was used to create the triangular shapes as a typographic tool, thus achieving a ponderous feeling that translates SSFB into a 2D layer.