Soundscape: Latest Keyframe Response - Drums, Demons & Volcanoes

Since I saw within the painting people, demons and beasts I've had this image of a battle between man and monsters. The painting's colour scheme emanates such heat via its strong use of blood reds, oranges and yellows in contrast to the prominent blacks; it brings to mind the destructive force of nature that is a volcanic eruption. 

Influential image of a volcanic eruption.

It's as if the battle is is full of monsters composed of black volcanic rock with lava dripping from the seams like blood. 

There is a hellish appearance to all this and a feeling of hopelessness, as if the painting's one discernible human is fighting a losing battle against Satan's minions. 

He seems surrounded by monsters both sides of him; some rushing towards him from the left, flags and spears raised while others stalk their prey from behind. His raised arm appears as if it's been cut off above the elbow, mid-swing - the sound of metal slicing through flesh and bone amplified for a brief moment.

Unnatural roars ring out across a volcanic battlefield, pierced by the war cry of a man willing to fight to the death. All the while the sun burns overhead, sizzling the flesh of its victims with its immense heat.

Key Frame: The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli (1911)

There is nothing happy about this painting; it screams death, battle, darkness, pure evil and the apocalypse. Its as if even the sun is a source of punishment and death, its searing rays of light filling a daytime sky, leaving only small amounts of cool blues behind.

There is also a tribal feel to it, as if it is a battle of myth from a primitive culture, fighting the darkness not with guns and bombs but with spears, swords and fists. Throughout the beat of a drum matching that of a racing heart.

The action feels like it would be so fast that the use of slow motion at times would allow this epic battle to truly be watched, the drum beat slowing down with time itself and the beastly roars made terrifying at a slow speed. Maybe the soundscape could be both discomforting, dark and hypnotic.

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Annotated cut-outs showing what I see in the painting.