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Ian Curtis’ Voice Merges With ‘Unknown Pleasures’ Pulsar in Joy Division NFT

AN NFT CELEBRATING Joy Division’s wavy Unknown Pleasures artwork will include previously unheard vocal samples from the band. The new piece renders the pulsar from the cover as audio, which is then merged with the voice of the late frontman, Ian Curtis. Peter Saville, the Factory Records co-founder and visual artist who designed the iconic sleeve, worked with Joy Division and New Order drummer Stephen Morris and the Joy Division Archive on the project, called CP1919. The project features two distinct artworks. CP1919: Sweeping Sun White 2023 and CP1919: Sweeping Sun Black 2023 show the art in their respective monochromatic makeups. White is an open edition with an unlimited number of copies; it includes previously unreleased Joy Division vocal samples and sounds. Black is one of a kind and features an ambient soundtrack including never-before-released Joy Division vocal fragments. The latter will be delivered on a hard drive in a bespoke case. “The weirdest thing about it was putting Ian on it,” Morris said in a video promoting the project. “[It] felt very, very strange. I found these two little phrases from the live version of [Closer’s] ‘Atrocity Exhibition.’ … I just lucked out that there was a bit of Ian that probably nobody had heard before.

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