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Hello everybody. This is an invitation to all for participation in a "chain letter tape" project. The basic premise behind these chain letter tapes is that we send a tape around to people who add their own tracks. When the tape gets back to me, I make a CD out of it and send it to all the participants. Credit should go to Michael Klobuchar for having the wonderful idea and managing the first completed chain tape project. I currently have a "found sound" chain tape going around. I expect that that project will be finished in about 4-8 weeks. After that, I'm going to be eager to start a new project that delves a little further into the whole sampling/finding aspect of music making. At the moment, I'm planning on doing either the first or second of the projects listed below. The third is kind of an afterthought. I'm mostly into experimental music, but I'm hoping to get a variety of sampling/reworking styles with these projects. I'm very tired at the moment so I don't know if I'm providing enough details. Let me know if you or anybody you know would be interested in participating. IMPORTANT: please write to my other e-mail address, which is mattdavignon@hotmail.com The email address I'm using right now (mdavig@sfsu.edu) is going to be cancelled in a few days, and hotmail is way to slow to get the mass Loopers' Delight e-mails. (I'll sign up again when I get e-mail that i can use with Netscape Messenger.) When you write to me regarding these projects, please start the subject line with (CT) so I know what it's about. We'll figure out a new header when we know which project we're doing first. OK, here are my ideas 1) SOURCE/PRODUCT: All participants send me a certain amount of "source material". This could be just about anything, instrumental tracks, drum tracks, singing, talking and so on. I'll make a "source" CD that is made up entirely of these tracks and send it back to all of you. Then we all make music using only the source CD for material. The idea is that we'll all have different ideas of what to do with this source material, and it will be interesting to hear what different musicians do to be different when they're using the same stuff. We'll collect your "PRODUCT" contributions with a regular chain tape. I'll then compile your tracks and make the "PRODUCT" CD and send it back to you. The CD's will come packaged together, but I'll only have to send everybody the PRODUCT cd because you'll all still have the SOURCE cd. 2) CHAIN REMIX: Ok, I know this has been done before, but it seems that it's only done by drum 'n' bass and techno people. I'd like to see a project done where all the musicians come from different musical stances. The basic premise is that we start with one song, preferably something accessible yet creative. We send both the entire song and the seperated tracks on a tape or CD to the next person. [For example, the tape would have 1) whole song then 2) just the drum track then 3) just the guitar track and so on.] The second person makes a remix or a new song out of the old song by using both samples of the most recent track and new samples and instrumental (or programmed/looped?) material. Basically, he's allowed to do whatever he wants, as long as the previous mix is still recognizeable as the source. The second person then sends ONLY HIS version of the song to the next person in line, both in complete form and with tracks seperated. This way, each person in line only has the most current version of the song to remix/create from. I think it will make the project more interesting if, for example, the 5th person in line only hears the 4th version of the song. That way, he can't hear what the original was and is not tempted to remain faithful to the original. This will be a study of a songs evolution through reworking/remixing. Each step will be new ideas mixed with old ideas. It's possible that by the 4th version, any sign of the original may have dissappeared. Then again, tracks very similar to the original could keep coming back accidentally. It's hard to tell from the beginning what the result will be on this one. 3) MUSIC OF ERRORS: This is kind of a side note, but while listening to the messed up version of the East Coast CT disc (Mr. Fodder and Rafter won't know what I'm talking about), I started to really like the strange mutation of Tim Nelson's song, sounding completely different than it should've, but somehow really beautiful and worthy of listen and appreciation. All of the messed up songs (was it a "buffer underrun error"?) sound radically different than the originals, but Tim's almost sounds like a whole new creature that could walk by itself. I'm curious to know how many of you have had this happen, where some fatal mistake caused your song to become some strange mutant with a whole new sense and purpose. If there's enough of you, and enough different errors, I'd like to make a compilation of just the error versions of the songs. I will probably make these CD's available through mail-order for really cheap ($4 per regular CD, or $5-6 for the 2 cd set "Source/Product", postage paid). It would be really complex for me to charge $10 and send everyone a profit, so we'll make it cheap advertising where nobody makes a profit. This is the cost of raw materials and postage. Just a chance to get heard by new people and exchange ideas. As much as I appreciate any participation, I'm much too poor to provide the CD's and postage to get you guys all free copies. (For anyone who wasn't here for the last go-around and doesn't already know,) we'll divvy up the costs, which will probably come up to $6-8 for "source/product", $4-5 plus one blank tape for the chain remix, and just $4-5 for "Music of Errors". best, Matt Davignon