Created for both musical use and sound design, Violence features an
unprecedented deconstruction of a solo violin recorded from numerous
angles: bowed, scraped, hit, plucked, played with mallets,
chopsticks, guitar picks, and wet fingers. Then the sound design was
repitched, layered, and post-processed through an array of unusual
tools to produce sounds unlike any found in other virtual instru-
ments. More than eighty unique patches were designed, each with a
custom set of scripted knobs and controls all conveniently organized
into four categories of sounds: Drum Kits, Melodic, Pads and Sound
Effects, and Tempo-Synced.

The inspiration for Violence came from the influential American
composer John Cage, whose extensive experiments with prepared piano
yielded new timbres and effects. What Cage did on the piano,
Violence brings to the violin: a new and unorthodox approach to a
traditional instrument, yielding amazing and fresh new instruments,
textures, and sound design elements. Violence combines physical
alterations with digital manipulations for a sound that straddles
acoustic and electronic realms.

http://www.vir2.com/instruments/violence

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