Re: [microsound] length of work

[diablatomica <diablatomica@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

    i know several persons who follow the aesthetic of short minimal pieces.
i suppose thier purposes have never been clearer defined to me but i have my
ideas.  i suspect it is the need to digest more information as suggested by
cascone, at least in the case of these associates i know.  it's a style that
they call "myte".

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/2/ambia_dextrus.html

the first track is prime example of the length (if not shorter) that they
often maintain.

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dia


From: anechoicmedia <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> 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...
>
>
> __________________________
> kim.cascone
> 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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