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Granular Politics (stereo)


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The Composer

 Genre: Political

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This is a stereo version of a piece I wrote for one of my groups at uni. Inspired by a few ideas including masks/lies and sounds revealing themselves over time... I came out with this little piece that describes reasonably well what I think of the two main politicians in my life.

It seems that everything is either so convoluted and complex that the truth of what they are doing never shines through, or in a small moment it reveals their incompetance, power-mongering and loyaties.... all of which depress me a little more.

All sounds in this piece are derrived from the 4 samples clearly heard. There is also a surround sound version of this piece.
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Lyrics
Let them tell you themselves.
Song Stats
Hits: 1397
Comments: 14
Fans: 4
Plays: 174
Downloads: 85
Votes: 9
Uploaded: May 15, 2006 - 09:45:45 AM
Last Updated: May 15, 2006 - 09:45:45 AM Last Played: Nov 15, 2009 - 06:04:00 PM
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Hardware:
A dictator and a tag-along.
Software:
Digital Performer, KTGranulator
Comments
ledebutant said 1287 days ago (May 15th, 2006)
Audio Art
Bryan, this is a stunning piece of political commentary as well as art.
The sound fluttering by, revealing bits of the words a little at a time
created a very unsettling effect and forced me to focus and pay
attention to what was being said, which so often we don't do. The
spaces between the clearly intelligible audio really effectively evoked
the discomfort so many of us feel about our current leaders.

I think this is so good that it would be interesting to see you work with
a visual or conceptual artist to create a larger installation around the
idea of truth revealing itself over time, using this piece as the audio
portion.

Really, I'm very impressed.
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The Composer said 1286 days ago (May 16th, 2006)
Audio Art
Thanks for the comment Lisa, glad you found it interesting! Interestingly
enough I've shown this to a couple of other people already and their reaction
seems to change depending on whether they see the picture first or read the
description. Ignore the description and suddenly everything said relates to
what looks like is about to happen in the picture :P

The installation idea is interesting too... I've got this next semester off uni so
I need to find some stuff like that to keep me busy at the least... installations
also work great with the whole Quad thing too.

Thanks for listening!

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The Composer, previously known as The Pianist who hasn't played the piano in a while...
<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/17268">Sampled Sister</a>
perceptualvortex said 1286 days ago (May 15th, 2006)
Wow
I agree with ledebutant's comments. I love the way you warped those samples. This is great.
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jiguma said 1286 days ago (May 15th, 2006)
Excellent concept!
The songpic got me going for a start - this is so apparently simple
(although I'm sure complex in execution) and so incredibly effective -
I'm with Lisa, a video installation with this could be quite amazing.
"Special George" for sure!
Neil
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The Composer said 1286 days ago (May 16th, 2006)
Excellent concept!
I agree, the songpic is gold! And as I said with Lisa, it can actually change the
focus of the piece into something quite humourus which is cool too. And
you're pretty right... the process I did to create everything was actually pretty
simple using only a delay loop and a granulator plugin... but at the same time
took a fair bit of time to perfect particularly because everything had to be
done in reverse and then played backwards at the end to get everything to
sound right.

Thanks for the listen Neil!

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Hear a blast from the past <a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/20393">Leavers song Y2K</a> or current news in <a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/20875">Granu
said 1286 days ago (May 16th, 2006)
George Looks Good in that Outfit
http://www.macjams.com/song/20526
I like the sonic experiment here.
ledebutant said 1284 days ago (May 18th, 2006)
!!!!
This should be getting so much more attention!
Check out my latest song called Black Star (MJ Live Aid w/jgurner)
The Composer said 1284 days ago (May 18th, 2006)
!!!!
I've done no pimping what-so-ever, maybe thats the problem ;)

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My roots in <a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/20393">Leavers song Y2K</a> or current news in <a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/20875">Granular politics</a
Macaudion said 1283 days ago (May 18th, 2006)
Now that's just twisted...
And the truth is much stranger than fiction - But what to do when you
have two fictional characters - Certainly, we try not to emulate them -
So just how did you do this - Kinda creepy, but at least it seems, that
our cowboy is gonna loose his favorite horse - too bad that he got to
all of the good hey first, though... - Thanks, Brian
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Tiny_Man_Inside said 1277 days ago (May 25th, 2006)
wow
Very inventive. Cool stuff. I like how you slowed down the "Brownie" quote
to make Bushy sound even more hick-ish.

This could serve as the intro soundscape to a conspiracy theory movie...
something like 911loosechange. I dig it.

Mason
Check out my latest song called Left to Swing (w/ The Composer)
loyd vader said 1268 days ago (June 3rd, 2006)
inspiring
youve made me convince myself to put my final punk song up on macjams. looks like we got a little musical socio-political group starting to happen here at m.j's............
love your work as always, didnt know that you could make these two idiots sound anymore unintelligent...........lol!!!!!





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springclock said 1251 days ago (June 20th, 2006)
impressive
I really dig this sort of thing.... a sonic and moral lesson....music food for
thought....we need more of this sort of work....more compelling stuff
peace....Ian
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rovert10 said 1158 days ago (September 21st, 2006)
Clever and disconcerting
Poor Howey, nobody understands his love for Georgy-boy. Fascinating
piece of work. Nice one.
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AlexBornaz said 671 days ago (January 21st, 2008)
Hm....
I'very like a dialogs in this song!:))And picture it's very "theme"!Every good!
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