this was my grade 12 final project in electronic music design. the assignment was something along the lines of creating a piece of music with a social message.
the message is part dystopian, but focuses more on the idea of identifying certain threats that would become a problem in the upcoming century. remember that this was the end of 1999. how close was i?
1) intro
2) war
3) noise pollution, or pollution in general
4) conformity (or the collapse of individualism)*
5) chemical warfare
6) global warming
7) outro
*i was thinking in terms of personality/uniqueness, rather than something political. and i think the extreme conformity underlying gen y social attitudes have played this out frighteningly well, actually. it's a reaction to the radical mindset of anti-conformity that dominated gen x, but it's still a very real thing that will have very real ramifications in the upcoming decades. if you thought the 50s were creepy, wait until you see what these kids grow up into!
i should have included something about inequality. i also removed a vegan track, partly due to time restraints. besides that, i think i got all of the broad ideas right.
most of the tracks are slightly remixed/resequenced versions of
tracks from inri or inriched. track 5 is brand new, and recorded on the
school's synthesizer (part of the project requirements).
noting that this contains a section i've title "symphony #0", i'm going to label this piece of music my zeroth symphony.
recorded over 1997-1999. constructed in this form in june, 1999. as always, please use headphones.
credits
j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, drum programming, sequencing,
sampling, digital wave editing, cool edit synthesis, tapes, production,
found sounds, strategies
released june 20, 1999
1) this is track 1 from the original inri cd demo.
2) this is a combination of tracks 5 & 11 from the original inri cd demo.
3) this is a combination of tracks 3 & 7 from the original inriched cd demo.
4) this is track 19 from the original inriched cd demo.
5) this was an original track recorded on the school's synthesizer to fulfill the requirements of the project, but becomes track 7 on the original inridiculous cd demo.
6) this is track 19 from the original inri cd demo.
7) this is track 1 from the original inriched cd demo.
