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@@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ li::before { background: black; } +.menu { + line-height: 1.5; +} +.menu a.a { + margin-left: 20px; +} + .mobile .player .icon { margin-left: 10px; } @@ -10,6 +10,19 @@ <div> <h1>Gun Violence Sonifications</h1> + <div class='menu'> + <small>CONTENTS</small><br> + <a href="#intro">Introduction</a><br> + <a href="#sonifications">Sonifications for Marching Band</a><br> + <a class='a' href="#mass-shootings"><i>Mass Shootings Since Columbine</i></a><br> + <a class='a' href="#ar15"><i>AR-15</i></a><br> + <a class='a' href="#firearms"><i>Firearms Manufactured</i></a><br> + <a href="#about">About This Project</a><br> + <a href="#production">Production Notes</a><br> + <a href="#coda">Coda</a> + </div> + + <a name="intro"></a> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p> @@ -19,8 +32,10 @@ We make available these Gun Violence Sonifications for any able marching band to perform free of charge. We hope that by making music out of the massacres, that there might someday be an end to them. </p> + <a name="sonifications"></a> <h2>Sonifications for marching band</h2> + <a name="mass-shootings"></a> <h3>Mass Shootings Since Columbine</h3> <small>1999-2018</small> @@ -68,6 +83,7 @@ <li>Composers: Medina/LaPlace/Barrett</li> </ul> + <a name="ar15"></a> <h3>AR-15</h3> <small>2016-2017</small> @@ -111,6 +127,7 @@ <li>Composers: LaPlace/Barrett/Duffy</li> </ul> + <a name="firearms"></a> <h3>Firearms Manufactured</h3> <small>1986-2016</small> @@ -161,12 +178,14 @@ <li>Composers: Medina/LaPlace/Barrett</li> </ul> + <a name="about"></a> <h2>About this project</h2> <p> These sonifications were commissioned by Hito Steyerl for the film <a href="http://armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/drill"><i>Drill</i></a> at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The sonifications were composed by Jules LaPlace and realized on the synthesizer by Bethany Barrett. These scores were then arranged for the Yale University Precision Marching Band by Prof. Thomas Duffy, the marching band director, and Antonio Medina, drum major and president of the band, and performed at the Armory. The project was coordinated by Ayham Ghraowi, Assistant Dean for Research and Public Projects at the Yale School of Art. </p> + <a name="production"></a> <h2>Production notes</h2> <p> @@ -181,6 +200,7 @@ We developed the software during Summer 2018 to create sonifications of income inequality for Hito's work <i>Power Plants/Actual Reality OS</i>, which was presented at the Serpentine Gallery in London. The software was further refined in Fall 2018 to create these gun violence sonifications. The synthesized versions were performed by Bethany Barrett using the Roland J8-XP and the Behringer DeepMind 12 analog polysynths. The orchestrations were performed by the full 120 piece marching band and recorded in January 2019. <i>Drill</i> opened at the Park Avenue Armory in June 2019 for one month. </p> + <a name="coda"></a> <h2>Coda</h2> <p> |