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mKnoise - The Collar

from Vol. 15: Sonification by Electronic Music Philosophy

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This song is based on the poem "The Collar" by George Herbert (1633):
<https://www.ccel.org/h/herbert/temple/Collar.html>

The Collar.
I Struck the board, and cry’d, No more.
I will abroad.
What? shall I ever sigh and pine?
My lines and life are free; free as the rode,
Loose as the winde, as large as store.
Shall I be still in suit?
Have I no harvest but a thorn
To let me bloud, and not restore
What I have lost with cordiall fruit?
Sure there was wine
Before my sighs did drie it: there was corn
Before my tears did drown it.
Is the yeare onely lost to me?
Have I no bayes to crown it?
No flowers, no garlands gay? all blasted?
All wasted?
Not so, my heart: but there is fruit,
And thou hast hands.
Recover all thy sigh-blown age
On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute
Of what is fit, and not. Forsake thy cage,
Thy rope of sands,1
Which pettie thoughts have made, and made to thee
Good cable, to enforce and draw,
And be thy law,
While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
Away; take heed:
I will abroad.
Call in thy deaths head there: tie up thy fears.
He that forbears
To suit and serve his need,
Deserves his load.
But as I rav’d and grew more fierce and wilde
At every word,
Me thoughts I heard one calling, Childe:
And I reply’d, My Lord.

I've tried to sonify the words and the letters in this poem.
The length of the word determines the panning of the letter. The first letter on the left the second on the right the next ones then towrads the middle, so that the last one is in the middle. Second: the length of the word determines the break (in miliseconds) to the next word in the opposite way, a short word should have an somewhat longer break and an longer word should have an shorter break to the next word.
The position of the letter in the ascii-table determines, how long the letter/sound is played (in miliseconds, ascii value time three). This position is also used to set the note value (midi)

[a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h] - [i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p] - [q, r, ..., x]
[36, 37, ..... , 48] - [39.3, 40.3, ......, 46.3] -[39.6, 40.6, ..., 46.6]

[y, z]
[47, 48]

[, ; . : ! ?] determines the playback-speed of the bell-sample.
['] its an break

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from Vol. 15: Sonification, released April 21, 2019

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