Mirry Music

Bringing Back a Lost Voice

Musician Tom Fraser discovered an old, scratched record of piano symphonies recorded by his Great Aunt Mirry – music she had kept secret from her family. Mirry never received any accolades for her work but enjoyed the act of creating work for herself. Mirry died in the 1980s but her music now lives on.

Background

Brief

Tom and his brother-in-law Simon Tong, re-worked and re-mixed Mirry’s compositions, with the intention of creating an album in celebration of Mirry and her work. Whistlejacket were tasked with assisting with the graphic design for this album.

Solution

Whistlejacket developed the identity for the album, using handwriting samples from Mirry’s memorabilia and personal collections, extracting individual letters to form a wordmark that is personal to Mirry herself. Mirry’s photographs, stereoscopic imagery and video footage, were carefully curated and used across the album, as well as the accompanying website and social media platforms. This gave us the opportunity to portray Mirry and her music through her memories and moments of her life.

Review

“Mirabel was her name. It means ‘of wondrous beauty.’ Appropriate words for a special collection of songs.”

Aquarium Drunkard