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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 > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com