[microsound] Karl Hauser: Flogging The Doll

[Dara Shayda]

https://soundcloud.com/dara-o-shayda/karl-hauser-flogging-the-doll

Source: hauspains.blogspot.ie/

I like the works of Karl Hauser, his unique pencil drawings, renditions of robotic mutations epitomizing odd body-part matched mutants, for me epitomizing our withered individuation, much like the old buildings and weathered broken statues regaining their individual charm and uniqueness through erosion!

For the first sonification used:

Flogging The Doll
Image: hauspains.blogspot.ie/2008/09/flogginf-doll.html , 2008 Karl Hauser

The pencil drawing was colour negated into white lines and black background to sonify only the penciled lines. The outlines of the walls were kept, and these walls are the first sounds heard in the tune and continue to be the last sounds. The entire drama occurs in a room, as all other drama they need a constricted space to give enough constraint to build the momentum to tumult the drama.

In order to render the impact sounds, 1 attack was applied to the image in MetaSynth's Image Room. This attack causes the repeated TWANGs in the tune, as though something is banged and thumped. BASS CLICKS were used as the multi-sampler to get the proper effects in both low and high pitches. In order to accentuate the TWANGs even further, Logic Pro's Edgy filter was used from the factory settings for the master track.

In order to have this flogging drama, the most important ingredient along side the room, is the flogger who has to be exclusively human, animals do not do such things. To render the humanity of the penciled lines MetaSynth's unique chorus multi-sampler ALL AEIO CYCLE was used to compose the second track.

Both tracks played simultaneously, produce a strong pattern of TWANGs and human chorus in unison to render the systemic nature of the drama.

MetSynth Configuration

{

x=512, y=512
1-attack applied to colour negated image
Tempo=4
MultiSampler= Bass Clicks, ALL AEIO cycle
E-2
Stereo
Scale=Harmonic Repeated 8 dt 96

}
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