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peppy197 · Post by **peppy197** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 1:30 am

APRIL FOOLS

so whats the real theme?

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 5:13 am

peppy197 wrote:How about ten songs in parallel all at the same time, or in fugue

or the same song played at different tempos at the same start with some detuned?

As a guy in River's Edge says, "N-O spells nuh-uh."

oddbod · Post by **oddbod** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:05 pm

to give you an idea, here's some of the 10x10's from FAWM 2015:

http://fawm.org/songs/47251/

http://fawm.org/songs/52087/

http://fawm.org/songs/45263/

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:11 pm

peppy197 wrote: APRIL FOOLS

so whats the real theme?

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:11 pm

oddbod wrote:to give you an idea, here's some of the 10x10's from FAWM 2015:

http://fawm.org/songs/47251/

http://fawm.org/songs/52087/

http://fawm.org/songs/45263/

great stuff !!

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:11 pm

oddbod wrote:to give you an idea, here's some of the 10x10's from FAWM 2015:

http://fawm.org/songs/47251/

http://fawm.org/songs/52087/

http://fawm.org/songs/45263/

great stuff !!

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:43 am

A couple more (these were the ones I enjoyed so much that I thought this might be fun to try here):
http://fawm.org/songs/52733/
http://fawm.org/songs/53578/

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:01 pm

Very cool idea! I've been doing very short pieces for a long time (heh heh) but never this short. I think the challenge is in making something that's 10-20 seconds long that has a full dramatic arc: opening, buildup, climax, cadence.

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 5:44 pm

rachmiel wrote:Very cool idea! I've been doing very short pieces for a long time (heh heh) but never this short. I think the challenge is in making something that's 10-20 seconds long that has a full dramatic arc: opening, buildup, climax, cadence.

Well, technically, the pieces don't have to be of similar lengths...and, if the requirement of silence between each piece appears to be optional there seems to be the possibility of making some Musique Concrete/Turning The Radio Dial montage work (as found in parts of Zappa's Lumpy Gravy, Zorn's Naked City, some cartoon/radio/film music) which the modern DAW makes so much easier than back in the days of the tape recorder...

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:56 pm

If you strung 10 pieces/songs together, back to back, with no pauses ... I would think they'd have to be clearly (a) different and (b) consistent in themselves to qualify as 10 individual entities. You could of course do a theme + 9 variations as long as it was clear where each new variation began ... hmm, might be fun!

Aziraphal · Post by **Aziraphal** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 1:55 pm

Argh, these unholy out-of-our-comfort-zone experiments

I have an idea for this month. It could turn out to be either pretty powerful or totally lame. One moment it attracts me, the next I want to drop and shift-delete the draft file. I wonder which way the wind's going to blow.

But yesterday we had 10 minutes of snow followed by scorching sunshine the rest of the day, so it's the traditional month of polar opposites.

Cheers Matt

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:28 pm

I have this vision of an aging songwriter -- one time Master of Rarefied Miniatures (Come Again?, his one-hour album of 167 songs, was as popular as the Pet Rock for a brief moment in the mid-70s) -- attempting in his dotage to make a comeback, figuring that the egregiously short attention spans induced by rampant Internet addiction had re-prepared the world for his haiku-like microtunes, and releasing a 10-song teaser of love songs, each in a different genre: pop, country and western, folk, jazz, electronica, glitch, dubstep, dub, reggae, etc.

This might be one of those ideas that is best kept in the realm of theory ...

Shangsean · Post by **Shangsean** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:53 am

I have around 6 songs complete. One track is clicking on at a monstrous 35 seconds and will need to be edited. It's best for me not to attempt guitar solos anyway, so it's probably for the best. This stellar 10 tracker will have some educational value.

Aziraphal · Post by **Aziraphal** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:54 am

No shift-delete! Composing part done, now to add tracks and improve sound, which could take longer.
Another 4AM session. Thank heavens for Red Bull...
Cheers Matt

Mister Natural · Post by **Mister Natural** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 5:18 am

In . . .

and I have no idea if this(to pure purists) seems like it fits within whatever definition of ten things inside of three minutes might be. There are ten ideas/motives there - kinda "blurred" several transitions b/c that felt more cohesive to me

. . . and I really freaking need some ibuprofen after wrestling with this project (aka: ten) all day
:=)
plz forgive a couple of edits as I needed to correct what efx vst were used here

hope you dig my humble submission

peace & happy spring (FINALLY!) to each of you

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