Editing Electronic Sound (section)

==Artwork==
The cover of ''Electronic Sound'' was painted by Harrison himself.{{sfn|Harry|2003|p=165}} According to Beatles historian [[Bruce Spizer]], the vivid colours and childlike quality of the artwork "add a feeling of lightness" to the austere sounds found on the album.{{sfn|Spizer|2005|p=210}} The front cover image includes a green-faced figure holding a green apple in one hand and standing behind a Moog console. The reverse is a scene from [[Derek Taylor]]'s office at Apple, with the words "Grapple with it" painted above and below a white sofa.{{sfn|Spizer|2005|p=210}} At this time, according to author and Zapple manager [[Barry Miles]], the "spectre of Zapple's demise" and Apple's gradual disintegration were already apparent.{{sfn|Miles|2016|p=175}}

[[File:Electronic Sound LP back cover.jpg|thumb|right|Back cover of the LP – a painting by Harrison depicting the fractious situation within the Beatles' Apple enterprise in 1969]]
Harrison's son [[Dhani Harrison|Dhani]] says that the two sleeve images were part of a single large painting, which he discussed with his father after discovering it in the family home, [[Friar Park]], in the 1990s.<ref name="Dhani/CD booklet" /> In Dhani's description, the green man on the front is Krause, who is controlling the Moog and ensuring that sound emanates from the right of the device, in the manner of a [[meat grinder]]. Harrison appears as a small blue smiling face below this, "making the tea", while the green shape along the bottom of the image represents Jostick,<ref name="Dhani/CD booklet" /> one of his and [[Pattie Boyd]]'s Siamese cats.{{sfn|Boyd|2007|pp=7 (pic. section), 294}}

In the portion used on the back of the LP, according to Dhani, Taylor is seen flying an "angry kite", which represents the aggravation that was pervasive at Apple in 1969, hence the "Grapple with it" message.{{refn|group=nb|In early 1969, Harrison and Taylor were said to be writing a musical based on the chaotic goings-on at Apple.{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=328}} While this idea was abandoned,{{sfn|Madinger|Easter|2000|p=424}} Harrison readily supported [[the Rutles]]' lampooning of the company in their 1978 Beatles satire, ''[[All You Need Is Cash]]''.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2010|p=366}}{{sfn|Clayson|2003|p=370}}}} The faces on Taylor's large wicker chair are [[Mal Evans]] and [[Neil Aspinall]],<ref name="Dhani/CD booklet" />{{sfn|Miles|2016|pp=162–63}} the Beatles' longtime assistants and former road managers.{{sfn|Harry|2003|p=168}} Both men were frequently torn in their loyalties towards the individual Beatles, due to the dysfunction within the band during the Apple era;<ref>{{cite book|first=Johnny|last=Black|chapter=A Slice of History|title=[[Mojo (magazine)#Special editions|Mojo Special Limited Edition]]: 1000 Days of Revolution (The Beatles' Final Years – Jan 1, 1968 to Sept 27, 1970)|publisher=Emap|location=London|year=2003|pages=92, 92}}</ref> the cover shows Evans smiling and Aspinall wearing a frown with, in Miles' words, "all the cares of Apple on his shoulders".{{sfn|Miles|2016|pp=162–63}} Harrison's friend [[Eric Clapton]] is pictured with a [[Jimi Hendrix|Hendrix]]-style afro and in psychedelic attire,{{sfn|Miles|2016|p=163}} and holding a guitar.<ref name="Dhani/CD booklet">{{cite AV media notes|first=Dhani|last=Harrison|title=Electronic Sound|others=[[George Harrison]]|pp=4–5|year=2014|type=CD booklet, "Electronic Sound by Dhani Harrison"|publisher=[[Apple Records]] }}</ref> As further examples of the inharmonious atmosphere at Apple, Miles notes that, unlike the four portraits of the Beatles hanging on the office wall, a picture of an Indian [[yogi]] with the [[Om]] symbol above him is upside down, and so too is the view through the office window in the top right corner of the image.{{sfn|Miles|2016|p=163}}

Author Mark Brend describes the cover art as "a twist on the convention of making the instrument itself a focus", since the four Moog modules appear to be grouped together behind the synthesizer player as if they are his backing musicians.{{sfn|Brend|2012|p=204}}