Re: [microsound] 9 beet stretch

[Scott Carver <fscthaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suppose the finesse of this piece is definitely in the choice of music 
to process, since the processing was done with what amounts to basically 
a single command in SND (one that has been included in that particular 
software package for ages, making it hardly as new as the various 
reviews of it suggest). One wonders how the reception of this piece 
might have differed if he had, say, compressed Wagner's ring cycle down 
to an hour, or expanded a piece of pop music rather than something 
classical.

Makes me want to speed up mid-ninties drone-heavy ambient music to see 
if there's something interesting hiding in there.

- Scott

Peter Price wrote:

> Of course if someone augmented the notation of beethoven's 9th and had 
> an orchestra play it, it would be a very different piece. It is 
> important to remember that this is a quintessential example of digital 
> music. It is the quality of the time stretching algorhythm that makes 
> the piece what it is sonically. On a conceptual level you have to ask 
> yourself if this concept would resonate as strongly with any other 
> piece of classical music.
>
> Peter Price


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