Li 2

Artist

HR Giger is a surreal artist that explores the concept of "biomechanical" relationships. He explores the idea of integrating machinery with the biological, often to bizarre and unsettling results.

Work

Li II is a portrait of his lover, Li Tobler, in HR Giger's own style. It portrays a woman integrated with machine. HR Giger's love for Tobler portrays itself in a sexual nature through the painting. Creatures off to the side are shown to have exposed genitalia, and Li is seen to be cold and mechanical.

Approach

I wanted to focus on the nature of machinery and biological beings. In particular, I felt that using sound, I can show the distortion of recognizable audio into something that would be mechanical. In addition, I wanted to focus on the sexual aspect prevalent in all of Giger's works. I thought that sound would be a great medium to explore man and machine.

Product

I used FL Studio with sounds obtained on freesounds.org as well as synths that I owned. In particular, I used voices of females, to represent Li Tobler herself. I then distorted the audio to represent the change from having something organic turn into machine. Using a bitcrusher, I was able to turn the woman's voice into something almost mechanical.

Reflection

I feel like I captured the essence of HR Giger well. If HR Giger was exploring sound design instead of painting, I could imagine him exploring the distortion of audio.

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1 comment · Latest by Kevin Ramser

Would have liked to see a little more research into Geiger and the specific work you chose, but the sound piece you composed is very eerie and reflective of the work.

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