{"id":41,"date":"2006-11-02T01:18:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T05:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2020-01-29T23:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T03:01:35","slug":"puppet-macbeth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?page_id=41","title":{"rendered":"Puppet Macbeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Puppet Macbeth was performed in the Kronauer Space at Adams House (Harvard University) in December 2002. The directors \/ puppet-makers, Moss Bittner and Emily Carmichael, asked me to produce a score and sound effects for the production, which I played live via laptop during the performances. <\/p>\n

I tried to match their vision for Macbeth’s Scotland, which tended toward the spooky,
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the ethereal,
\nhttp:\/\/www.wayneandwax.com\/macbeth\/ladys-lament.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

and the carnivalesque.
\nhttp:\/\/www.wayneandwax.com\/macbeth\/carnivalous.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

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I also put together some spaghetti-western-inspired, quasi-Scottish,
\nhttp:\/\/www.wayneandwax.com\/macbeth\/bagpipe-stomp.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

hip-hop-informed, war marches.
\nhttp:\/\/www.wayneandwax.com\/macbeth\/battle-call.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

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And I embraced the opportunity to experiment more with musique concrete, sampling a refrigerator to evoke the phenomenological shifts when Macbeth starts seeing ghosts (and then playing with the sound in between scenes),
\nhttp:\/\/www.wayneandwax.com\/macbeth\/buzz-off.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

grabbing and amplifying the sound of Moss knocking on a table to simulate the pounding on the castle door (and then, again, playing with the sound after the scene),
\nhttp:\/\/www.wayneandwax.com\/macbeth\/hear-me-knocking.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

and reproducing, more rhythmically, the din of dinner.
\nhttp:\/\/www.wayneandwax.com\/macbeth\/din-din.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

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