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Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators
Release StoreTags: craque, release, microsound
Author: craque on October 12 2008
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Here's the piece I did for the Infinite Jest microsound project, an imaginary soundtrack for the film by Incadenza as it appears in DFW's novel, a tribute to an author I don't know so well but, much like Cage and Joyce, am now determined to discover...
The "film" is listed as being 45 minutes, and features children playing games with nuclear technology.
I took the full proper names of 9 famous 20th century dictators:
Adolf Hitler
Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Francisco Franco Bahamonde
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Saddam Hussein
Tojo Hideki
... and wrote a perl script to interpret this alpha-numeric text into numeric values, then used to drive parameters (also used as hex and in retrograde, a la tone rows) within a synthesis algorithm I wrote in ChucK.
Here's the description of the "film" from DFW's book (for which I still await delivery from Amazon):
"Baby Pictures Of Famous Dictators" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Documentary or uncredited cast w/ narrator P.A. Heaven; 16 mm; 45 minutes; black and white; sound. Children and adolescents play a nearly incomprehnsible nuclear strategy game with tennis equipment against a real or holographic (?) backdrop of sabotaged ATHSCME 1900 atmospheric displacement towers exploding and toppling during the New New England Chemical Emergency of Y.W. CELLULOID (UNRELEASED)
Enjoy! My first foray into serious work with ChucK, I'm really enjoying it so far. Next I think I want to create some kind of generative piece that takes its input from network traffic. | |
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10/13/08
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hecanjog
this is really gorgeous man - and very inspiring to push forward with my own chuck work - thanks for posting!
10/14/08
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craque
awesome! glad you like it. here's a longer description i posted today: link
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