Initially, my project was different. I had recorded my voice as a train of thought, where I would physically voice my inner consciousness bringing my inside voice out into the real world. I then manipulated that audio to create some distortion and put different tracks together. Although in the end, I was not happy with the result that surfaced. I did some more research and came across an amazing composer by the name of Steve Reich.

Steve Reich is a composer who has innovated different patterns and has proven the power of sound through various techniques such as tape loops and phasing in his audio tracks. His work was and is very successful and has gained fame due to its musical content and especially the fact that his compositions take on a slow harmonic rhythm that becomes almost hypnotic. The sound measures and the times where he would choose to stop or start each loop all added something at a larger scale to his work. His audio compositions are where I drew my inspiration for this project from. Here is one of his tracks:

Clockwork Orange is an incredible book, and beautifully structured film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The protagonist, main character, and narrator is Alex DeLarge. At the beginning of the film, he is completely independent and a leader/ruler of his entourage. He represents rebellious youth and the angst of a teenager, and is incredibly successful at his acts. As the film progresses, he finds himself in a situation where he is suppressed by higher powers and takes on a robot-like quality. I created a loop of his voice when he talks about walking into the Korova Milk Bar, after vandalizing a couples home, raping the wife, and beating the husband. There is power and strength in Alex’s voice, but as I layered the loops and distorted the sounds, he loses that strength, and he conforms into societies norms- this metaphorical conversion is analogous to the progression of A Clockwork Orange.

Enjoy.