Comments on: So What Will a Sequenza21 Concert Sound Like Anyhow?

By: David Salvage

David Salvage — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:18:33 +0000

Yo — we’re featured in this week’s Time Out New York… check it out.

By: Frank J. Oteri

Frank J. Oteri — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:35:14 +0000

I prefer Jerry’s and David’s and their committee’s original concept for next week’s S21 concert

So Garth, does that mean that we’ll all finally get the pleasure of meeting you in person at the concert? Hope you can be there!

By: zeno

zeno — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:48:01 +0000

…. part of me wonders if a real “Sequenza 21″ concert ought instead be a group composition that one of us starts (pretending to write a solo work in the Berio tradition), perhaps followed by everyone in the audience sequentially creating variations on it in turn for the rest of the evening…..

FJO

I prefer Jerry’s and David’s and their committee’s original concept for next week’s S21 concert, and I wish all the selected composers and participating performers best of luck. I am sure that most audience members will enjoy simply listening to the best emerging 21st c. music.

By: Seth Gordon

Seth Gordon — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:13:36 +0000

I think it’s a wicked cool idea. I took part in a few of EC-type projects back in the day. They were always fun, though occasionally you run into pranksters for whom the whole point seems to be to make life as difficult as possible for the next person in the chain. There’s a lot of musical EC going on online at any given time, especially in the techno/IDM scene – “remix trees” and the like.

A different style I kind of like is where, rather than a sequential series, everyone is riffing on the same source. I prefer the idea of something where, say, one person comes up with the source material – it could be a written sketch, a collection of samples, whatever – and everyone does their own take on it. Sony’s (formerly Sonic Foundry’s) acidplanet does those regularly – they’ve managed to get everyone from t.A.T.u to Stockhausen(!) to contribute source materials for their contests.

By: Frank J. Oteri

Frank J. Oteri — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:34:43 +0000

Well most Exquisite Corpse approaches are somewhat different since the person in sequence might not be aware of everything that proceeded it. (I know of a few cases of Exquisite Corpse improvs where the goal was not to inform anyone of anything they were supposed to create work to co-exist with.) And, of course, we know that each and everyone who posts comments to Sequenza21 has thoroughly read and processed every comment in the chain to which the comment is being affixed

By: CM Zimmermann

CM Zimmermann — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:28:01 +0000

un cadavre exquis.

CMZ