Data

Cruel and Usual

Edith Cowan University
Cat Hope (Aggregated by)
Viewed: [[ro.stat.viewed]] Cited: [[ro.stat.cited]] Accessed: [[ro.stat.accessed]]
ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2FANDS&rft_id=https://ro.ecu.edu.au/datasets/22&rft.title=Cruel and Usual&rft.publisher=Edith Cowan University&rft.description=Cruel and Usual is a music composition for string quartet electronics. It is inspired by an article by the Al Jazeera news service that discusses the use of solitary confinement in US prisons as incarceration rates explode in the USA. In some cases, prisoners have remained in solitary for over 38 years., or may even be children, and the reasons for going in there are not always clear or legitimate. This kind of confinement is known as ‘no touch torture’. Drone, glissandi and the trembling bass are features of this work, where the string players are sampled at certain small moments of the piece, and ‘translated’ into much lower ranges instantaneously, which fade out, grow, and distort as indicated on the score.&rft.creator=Cat Hope&rft.date=1970&rft.relation=https://youtu.be/CtNccMuPg4w&rft_subject=Electronic Music Score&rft_subject=Decibel ScorePlayer&rft_subject=Composition&rft_subject=PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING&rft_subject=STUDIES IN CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING&rft.type=dataset&rft.language=English Access the data
Cite Saved to MyRDA Save to MyRDA

Access:

Open

Full description

Cruel and Usual is a music composition for string quartet electronics. It is inspired by an article by the Al Jazeera news service that discusses the use of solitary confinement in US prisons as incarceration rates explode in the USA. In some cases, prisoners have remained in solitary for over 38 years., or may even be children, and the reasons for going in there are not always clear or legitimate. This kind of confinement is known as ‘no touch torture’.

Drone, glissandi and the trembling bass are features of this work, where the string players are sampled at certain small moments of the piece, and ‘translated’ into much lower ranges instantaneously, which fade out, grow, and distort as indicated on the score.

Notes

This work was originally produced in 2011.

Management ID: 13565

This dataset is part of a larger collection

Click to explore relationships graph
Help

Related Publications

Related People

115.85705,-31.95351

115.8570471,-31.9535132

Subjects
Composition | Decibel ScorePlayer | Electronic Music Score | Performing Arts and Creative Writing | Studies in Creative Arts and Writing |

User Contributed Tags    

Login to tag this record with meaningful keywords to make it easier to discover

Similar data you may be interested in:
See more Cultures and Communities data