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Awhile back, we at Soulseek Records (www.soulseekrecords.com) decided to do a similar project. The idea was that all the musicians involved in the label would make 1-second of music, and tack it all together.
The music was written as we went along, one second at a time. One person would make 1-second of music and send it to the next person via the internet. The next person would add 1-second to the end. And so on, and so on.
We now have 9 minutes of music! That's 540 seconds! What resulted from this project is an overwhelming tapestry of stream-of-consciousness ideas and grooves that flow in and out of cohesiveness, swirling around, containing moment-after-moment of short-lived brilliance before drastically moving to the next idea.
There are over 100 musicians involved in its creation.
You can listen to it at the following link:
In addition to this project, we've done others in a similar collaborative vein. There are the multiple versions of the 1 Minute Massacre. Same concept, except with 1 minute of music. Then there is the 24 Hour Massacre, which is essentially a 1 Minute Massacre created entirely overnight in a 24 Hour timespan. You can listen to those at www.soulseekrecords.com. All of these projects were executed entirely over the internet by many, many musicians from across the globe.
It's great to see that similar ideas are being carried out here!!
Pretty Interesting...how do people come up with these ideas? It's beyond me...
Anthony Korculanic
not sure if it's just my machine but i got a 404 on that link jamie.
i guess the link has long since died. it was a pretty experimental musical track, if i remember correctly. lots of different musicians all contributing a small section, and then stringing it all together.
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Re: The One Second Massacre - a similar project!
wow, interesting.
Animation has often played with this concept; it goes back to the Exquisite Corpse, a game played by the surrealists. I've never seen/heard it attempted musically.
in animation, they will often give a single frame (i.e. a drawing of a character) to several different animators and then give them 30 seconds to animate whatever they want to happen to that character, so long as it starts and ends in the same point. then all the different pieces are strung together creating something that no single person would ever have imagined. it's a great way to create something new.
it would be interesting to find a musical version of the exquisite corpse that had a built in unifying structure of some sort, but would still remain blind/unheard to all collaborators until the finished product. i.e. a common note, riff, or motif that each contributor could use as a beginning/end point... but the contributions might have to be a little longer than one-second. maybe 5? or maybe it could be done in 1. the trick would be finding a way to break it down but still keep it together. finding the points where things connect. hmmm.
anyway, thanks for sharing this-