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Re: MY2K musical diary online
Haven't we seen this before?
--- Michael Peters <mpeters@csi.com> wrote:
> for those who might be interested ... as posting
> one's personal diary to
> the web becomes the latest fab, here's something
> slightly different: A
> musical diary.
>
> My friend Karsten Schulze (a keyboard player in
> Cologne/Germany) had the
> wonderful idea to set himself this goal for 2000:
>
> To create 10 seconds of music each day.
>
> The 10 seconds could be anything from a composed
> piece or some
> improvisation to environmental recordings. This
> promised to be a wonderful
> method to keep making music every day - even when
> there is very little time
> for music, there should be enough time for 10
> seconds and for keeping the
> contact to music. On the other hand, the 10 seconds
> format is a real
> challenge! It is sometimes more difficult to squeeze
> a meaningful musical
> statement into 10 seconds than into 3 minutes. On a
> good day, creating the
> 10 seconds can resemble writing a haiku or drawing a
> zen calligraphy. On a
> bad day, the diary entry will consist of some
> mediocre idea. (oh yes, I had
> some of these.)
>
> And also ... 366 days of 10 seconds make about one
> hour of music at the end
> of the year. One CD, that is. (Of course, listening
> to an hour of musical
> and sound fragments is not for everyone.)
>
> Several musicians have taken up this idea and are
> working on their own MY2K
> project. There is even a mailing list.
>
> I've set up a webpage today (see URL below) to
> publish my own musical diary
> (23 entries so far). You can click a calendar and
> listen to the sound of
> the day. Have fun, and let me know what you think.
>
>
> * Michael Peters: mpeters@csi.com
> * escape veloopity: electronic guitar loop music
> * hop - fractals in motion: strange attractors
> * http://www.mpeters.de/mpeweb
>
>
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