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A collab companion piece to JanKun’s masterly Urakami: 44-86292
44-86292 is the serial number of a B-29 Superfortress bomber, an American aircraft better known to the world as Enola Gay, the plane which on August 6th 1945 dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing between 90,000 and 160,000 people in the immediate blast, or as a result of radiation and other injuries in the months which followed. Three days later, a second device was dropped on the Urakami district of another city, Nagasaki, with similar devastating effect. Japan surrendered shortly afterward. The war in the Pacific was over.
This piece is a companion to Urakami, AUGUST 9, 1945, 11.02am, by @JanKun :
His piece evokes the moment of this second explosion.
JanKun was kind enough to invite me to make something from the stems he created, and so it seemed logical, since I lack his impressive compositional skills, to opt for something simpler.
Taking just one of his cello lines as inspiration, (from a total of fifty (!) individual instrument lines in his original composition) its deep throbbing bass reminded me of a WWII vintage heavy bomber’s prop engines. (Headphones or good speakers advised.)
So my contribution is designed to evoke the journey to that fateful first detonation in the skies over Japan, three days earlier, the prequel to JanKun’s own piece, if you will.
Created entirely in AUM on iPad, using only a dozen individual stems or full orchestra audio fragments from JanKun’s original piece, arranged in Koala and live triggered into AUM File Players, before live mixing down into AudioShare. No MIDI, no other instruments, just File Players and Koala.
Thanks again to JanKun for the opportunity to ride his coattails a while.
The poorly degraded found footage accompanying this, incidentally, is of a later nuclear event, Operation Crossroads, a test conducted at Bikini Atoll in 1947. In order to make way for the tests, the civilian population were relocated to another island and left initially to starve, effectively ending a way of life which had existed for generations. Meanwhile, the servicemen ordered to be present at the tests were exposed to high levels of radiation. Many were later to die of cancers and other causes, it is argued, arising from their presence at the tests or involvement in subsequent clean up operations. The victims of nuclear weapons are more widely distributed than is immediately obvious.
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Very impressed by what you came up with in such a short time. A great companion track ! Hoping more people will chime in !
Just watched this without reading this post/thread as it showed up in my YT subs.
I experienced an overwhelming sense of sadness and hopelessness which was really unsettling. Powerful stuff.
I’m going to listen to @JanKun ‘s piece tomorrow, I think - I need some recovery time.
Has a feeling of an epic scene in which the character is going through an ordeal: a ship in a sea storm, traversing the desert, etc
Great work Irena, the sounds fitted the heavy bombers beautifully.