The Ravings of a Clown, by The Former Yugoslavia

The Ravings of a Clown

by The Former Yugoslavia

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	1.	Variation 1 (bellezza dalla bruttezza) in C 16:00
	2.	Variation 2 (canone perpetuo) in Eb 04:41
	3.	Variation 3 (pianissimo larghetto con sordino) in G 06:01
	4.	Variation 4 (grazioso con speranza) in D# 14:40

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"And the speeches of the President are the ravings of a clown"
- Phil Ochs, 1974

Album #5 - another attempt to make something beautiful out of something ugly.

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released September 4, 2020

Realized, arranged, and recorded August-September 2020 at Wine of Silence, East Asheville, NC by Marcus Registrada

Artwork by Ruby Script

The original source material for this project was President Donald Trump's address to the RNC, 27 August 2020. The text of that speech was converted to four different sets of MIDI values via a transposition algorithm. Each set was loaded into Pure Data, which was used to execute a stochastic note-triggering algorithm. The resulting output was piped into Ableton Live (running Arturia Piano V) in real time.

All proceeds from the sale of this album will be donated to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy's COVID-19 Response Fund.
www.disasterphilanthropy.org

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The Former Yugoslavia Asheville, North Carolina

This is the archive page for The Former Yugoslavia, an experimental electronic project that sporadically existed between 2000 and 2022.

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