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From: Jules Laplace
- Hito Steyerl’s 2020 installation SocialSim used one of my dungeon synth compositions, Glacial Catacomb, as the music inside an art gallery‘s “secret VIP room” full of self-evolving artworks. The film’s credits music was my rendition of Ennio Morricone's Rabbia e Tarantella (1974), performed
- using guitars, drums, and synths.
+ Hito Steyerl’s 2020 installation SocialSim used one of my dungeon synth compositions, Glacial Catacomb, as the music inside an art gallery‘s “secret VIP room” full of self-evolving artworks. For the film’s credits, I arranged a rendition of Ennio Morricone's Rabbia e Tarantella (1974), performed using guitars, drums, and synths.
Drill
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The piece centered around gun violence in America, both its history (the Armory is where
the NRA was founded) and the present-day situation where mass shootings happen nearly
every week. I scored the film using data sonifications of mass shooting data, performed
- using the Deepmind 12 synthesizer and JX-8P. These were later arranged and
- performed by the Yale University Precision Marching Band in the Drill Hall at the Armory.
+ using the Deepmind 12 synthesizer and JX-8P. These data sonifications act as timelines of
+ gun violence, where each beat represents the passing of a month, and each note represents
+ a tragic incident. Through this process, a dark melody naturally emerges. These were later
+ arranged and performed by the Yale University Precision Marching Band in the Drill Hall
+ at the Armory.