Little Orchestra
Special Edition / Special Packaging for the 3-CD Set
»Vienna Art Orchestra — 20th Anniversary«







Idea, design, production: Elisabeth Kopf Box music, box tuning: Martin Zrost
Co-production: Werner Korn Special Thanks: Rudolf Kopf, Loredana Selichar, Michi Waismayer, Richard Wagner





Five Design Steps — Two Dummies
(1) Planet Music
(2) Instrument case
(3) Case producing sound from kinetic motion
(4) Box producing sound from air flow
(5) Development of the aesthetic
(6) Final design — hand made







CD packaging makes Music
How it works















The score / composition
The Musical CD Boxes are organized in three musical groups:
Group Vienna (Boxes #1 to #12)
Group Art (Boxes #13 to #20)
Group Orchestra (Boxes #21 to #30)











Box #24

Box #21

Box #22

Box #23

Box #25

Box #26

Box #27

Box #28

Box #29

Box #30






CD packaging is Music
CD Production of the Packaging Music
Featuring all Musical CD Boxes and special arrangements by Martin Zrost



»Landla«
Box #10, Box #11, Box #12


»Rap«
Box #13, Box #15, Box #19, Box #21


»Blues«
Box #9, Box #13, Box #14, Box #20


»Orchester«
Box #21, Box #22, Box #23, Box #24, Box #25, Box #26, Box #27, Box #28, Box #29, Box #30






Little Orchestra
In concert / VAO Anniversary World Tour 1997
(1) Opening Concert, Brucknerhaus Linz
(2) Final Concert, Porgy & Bess Vienna





Little Orchestra
Exhibition





»The mysteriously dark blue Music Box Elisabeth Kopf designed for the Vienna Art Orchestra is one of those very few pieces that blew me away: It not only packages music beautifully, but performs music itself, thereby creating a conversation between design and content I have nowhere else experienced so elegantly ... a conceptual loop that blurs the borders not only between art and design, and between content and packaging, but also between music and object. This is innovation. She is clearly one of that small number of professionals who has risen to the very top of the industry, which is why her work was part of the AGI ‚best of decades‘ exhibit last year in Berlin.« Stefan Sagmeister, New York.







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