my 2000

[Michael Peters <mpeters@csi.com>]

yesterday a friend of mine (Karsten Schulze, a keyboard player from 
Cologne/Germany) came up with a cool idea:

His personal goal for 2000 is to create and record 10 seconds of music 
every day. Just like a diary entry, but very short. 10 seconds each day 
sum 
up to 3650 seconds, or about 1 hour of music at the end of the year, 
consisting of 365 small bits.

I was fascinated by this idea at once, and I think I'll try to do this 
too. 
I'm really thinking of this as a musical diary, so the 10-second-bits will 
possibly turn out to be very different, just like the days. Some will be 
composed pieces, some improvised sounds, some just environmental 
recordings. All in all, it will probably end up as a very colorful 
patchwork. Another approach would be to create a coherent piece of music 
out of 365 units.

This 1 hour will be 'my 2000'. It could be either put on CD (because 365 
tracks won't work, they could be grouped into, say, 12 month-tracks), or 
possibly on CD-ROM for computer. One could also devise some sort of 
software, or a website, consisting of a calendar - clicking a day would 
play the 10 second track of the day and possibly display a diary entry, 
image, or something similar.

If more of you should decide to run their own 'my 2000' project, we could 
even bundle our efforts and turn it into something public, marketing-wise, 
for those who would do it as a professional music project. I'd volunteer 
to 
set up and host a website for this if needed. :-) But first - 365 pieces 
of 
music must be created.

Let me know what you think.

A healthy, peaceful, and successful year to all of you.


*       Michael Peters:         mpeters@csi.com
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