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What can I do in the face of such an atrocity? Nothing, really, but sometimes getting involved in a project can help introduce some distance-through-abstraction. nor helped to do this, especially the creation of the sounds. All of the thunder-like and 'environmental' sounds in the composition come from spectral decompositions of the piano chords heard in the piece. The process of working with the sounds and the music-technology I used to produce them gave me a bit of emotional breathing space.
How does this help deal with badness? I don't know, and making a ten-minute long patch of odd noises is a pretty paltry response to a tragedy like Norway. Or most anything, to tell the truth.
I was going to end this with some portentous statement like
"But that's what I do". Jeez.
Brad Garton
August, 2011