Monday 19 July 2010

A Sturdier Bruitisme


The teenage origami nazis are a fiction created by me in a spur of the moment decision. I think it took less than an hour to set up a myspace, record and upload a track. Voila! Instant band!

It's part of a larger intent to create several other flights of whimsy, each a 'band' operating within the constraints of genre. I've become fascinated lately with the non-musical aspects (conventions of style, presentation, etc.) that surround and mark off as distinct otherwise formally similar genres.

It's also an exercise in composition. I'm the 'author' of a system of conditions and relationships - the 'band' - and it's this system which produces the music. It's just like playing with dolls; each instrumental voice is a character with an emerging personality, and their pseudo-social interactions are an important determining factor in the construction of the musical content. With hindsight, I guess it's similar to the experience of some novelists; the characters write the story.

It's been fun too! I have a whole new understanding of the potential of reeds as weapons of mass irritation. But I've achieved my initial goals, so I'm shelving this before I become bored. I've some unfinished "L after I" business to attend to for now, plus a few more make believe projects that I'm eager to get my teeth into, but I'm sure I'll need to scratch this particular itch again someday...


http://www.myspace.com/teenageorigaminazis

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