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RE: [microsound] length of work



> just curious if any composers out there have noticed the trend towards
> creating shorter work and if there were any aesthetic theories around
> this...

"minimal is maximal"

:o)

f.

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> De: anechoicmedia <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> A: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: [microsound] length of work
> Fecha: Domingo 28 de Noviembre de 1999 4:35 PM
> 
> 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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> sound.designer...composer
> 
> kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.anechoicmedia.com
> 
>  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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