Re: [microsound] length of work

[zimbette <tofu@xxxxxxx>]

for some reason this flashes me back to memories of watching a movie
called "d.a.r.y.l."

the boy robot would scan each cd and suck up as much information as he
could.

much like no.5 reading a few books?



i dont know how i feel about the song length issue.  often times it
takes me a while to get immersed in a piece -- and often i find that as
soon as something clicks for me and i begin to soak it in and enjoy it as
fully as i can.. well, it ends.  and that sucks :)

but then again, some things are just better short -- but usually, for me,
those things are nice pop songs (barrett, gainsbourg) and not more
abstract works.  

but i really appreciate having the best of both worlds.. like with
farmers manual explorers_we.  one long work that can be played back in
broken bits.



chris.


On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, anechoicmedia wrote:

> I was in LA with my family over Thanksgiving and did the obligatory
> post-holiday mecca to Melrose to do some Christmas shopping...we stopped
> into this futurismo-hitech-minimal-urbanwear shop and noticed that what
> they were playing on the stores sound system was a electronic music
> sampling CD (like: Cuckooland I or II, etc)...I found it interesting that
> the people running the store would choose a sampling CD to play and started
> chewing on the implications: was attention span getting so short that the
> only thing of interest is 10 second and under snippets of modular
> synthesizer ornaments and pads? was the store owner possibly a composer who
> wanted to multiplex her time by listening to the CD to gether ideas for her
> next single? or is there a trend of needing to ingest more information
> thereby needing to reduce the length of each digestable bit so more can be
> assimilated? I have found within my own work a need to reduce, reuse,
> recycle (to borrow a phrase from a bumpersticker)...
> just curious if any composers out there have noticed the trend towards
> creating shorter work and if there were any aesthetic theories around
> this...
> 
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>  November releases:
> 
>                 full length:: cathodeFlower (Ritornell/Mille Plateaux)
> 	mp3 release:: Pulsar Studies 1 - 20 (Falsch)
> 	compilation:: cubeQuadratische (Herniated Mix #1) (Digital Narcis)
> 
> "the smooth always posseses a greater power of deterritorialization than
> the striated."
>    - Deleuze & Guattari
> 
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