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Reactions to the Assassination of Malcolm X
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Reactions to Malcolm X's murder in February of 1965 converted to electronic drum solo. The resulting music is random, chaotic and tense. See story for more details, please.
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Experimental fractal music
Creating audio is as simple as drawing a line through a fractal image. Anyone can do it! This line determines the notes as well as the duration of each note, depending upon the length of each segment of color that it intersects. These audio files have influences from diverse sources in the avant-garde world. Scales used may sound unusual to some listeners and the range of bent notes can contribute to a mysterious sound. I tend to call these works 'sound', rather than 'music'. They're not popular and not things that one would listen to more than once, unfortunately.
Song Info
Genre
Beats Beats General
Charts
Peak #3,875
Peak in subgenre #1,054
Author
Mark Brannan
Rights
the people
Uploaded
May 03, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.3 MB 128 kbps 2:30
Story behind the song
As a part of my Voices to Music project, I am converting sounds to random music. The speech files are converted to MIDI. In this case, I used TS-AudioToMidi to transform people's voices-- recorded reactions at the time in February of 1965 in New York City-- to drum sounds. The MIDI is then converted to WAV by Timidity++, edited in Audacity (normalized and reverb effects added to give the drums more spatial presence) and converted then to mp3 for public distribution. I don't even know if this is appropriate, and I don't think it does anyone justice. In many ways, this feels hollow... but in any case, it is here nonetheless. If you hate it, please ignore it and let the stupid drums die in obscurity. If you love it, let it live. In the interest of peace and awareness, I'm making this song freely available and modifiable, including for commercial purposes.
Lyrics
A few excerpts from that time: "I know it was no accident." "The white power structure of America. They know they had more to gain by gettin Malcolm X out of the way than they had to let him live." "In the last year... he changed. He wanted to get along with the white people. But you people didn't want to get along with us." The original recording of these voices can be found for free currently at archive.org. This is what I used to create this.
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