pecha kucha @ super deluxe
So, I'm doing Pecha Kucha. In Tokyo. And I can't wait! The format is genius, 20 slides, each of them 20 seconds long. That's it, that's what you have to work with. Period.
I love making music this way too, deciding the length as the first step. Then you at least know what you're working with. Six hours? OK. Now that's a completely different proposition than six minutes.
For my Pecha Kucha presentation, I asked Momus to send me 15 images of design, lifted off the internet. And he did. And they run the gamut from fabric textures, to experimental architecture, to a lot in between. Simply calling all of these objects "design" is kind of a bold statement, but I think it works to sort of rattle the cage a bit.
For each of the images I composed a 20 second piece. I thought I had finished them last week, but they just sounded too clean, too clear, too, ahem... designed. Then my friend David turned me onto the Conet Project on Archive.org and I IMMEDIATELY fell in love with these strange sounds. I began sauteeing them, digitally speaking, and applied them liberally to the 15 new compositions I had made. Thus, as of yesterday, I have finished MicroMusic for 15 Designs and can't wait to show it in Tokyo, rather soon indeed!
---Roddy---