Ayanami, Why Do You Pilot Your Eva? by pedrosodre published on 2020-11-24T04:15:03Z "Ayanami, Why Do You Pilot Your Eva?" is a 3:47 long acousmatic composition by composer Pedro Sodré. The piece was realized by processing a short sound capture containing only the Japanese equivalent of the title phrase. It is a quote from the contemporary classical japanese animated TV series Evangelion. The piece portrays an abstract soundscape, structured as 30-45 seconds miniatures that evolve through in abstract fashion with the use of several different spectral processors. The piece uses standard Ableton VST such as compression, overdrive, EQ, a plate reverb as well as Csound Shimmer Reverb, Csound Mincer, Csound PVSBlur, a little bit of Csound Spectral Morphing and the Paul Stretch VST.The piece is conceptually rooted into the perspectives brought by Takashi Murakami's Super Flat Manifesto. The written work points to the global phenomena of a cultural flattening of high and low culture, erotic and grotesque, artistic practices and entertainment, childlike and mature themes.