3-Minute Introductory Dose of Experimental Music
I took on an intriguing project this weekend. My new coworker is a wonderful addition to my team - she's highly-skilled, and we collaborate well together, but her musical interests are... well... a bit sheltered.
A twenty-something who "doesn't really use the internet much", her musical exposure is limited to what she sees on The Voice. Her favorite artists/genres include Whitney Houston, Nickelback, country pop, and crunk.
But she claims she is always willing to learn new things, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
Now this isn't the part where I throw on 30 minutes of Metal Machine Music or "Pena" from Trout Mask Replica. I genuinely wanted to open her mind to consider music beyond the I IV V, verse-chorus-verse world of NOW! THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC!
I pored over my library, selecting historically-significant recordings, genre-defining works, and pieces which are unique but accessible. Some selections push the envelope further, like the example of musique concrete tape music, while others, like "An Ending (Ascent)" are amicable to even the most close-minded of listeners.
My coworker agreed to an open-minded listen for 3-4 minutes of new music. I mixed highlights from fourteen quality tracks and will be presenting them the next time she stops by The Manor.
The short, 3-minute mix breezes through the following recordings:
01 Tom Dissvelt & Kid Baltan - Pianoforte
02 Kalheinz Stockhausen - Kontakt
03 Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians - Section I
04 Fripp & Eno - Heavenly Music Corporation
05 Terry Riley - In C
06 Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough
07 Sun Ra - Space is the Place
08 Moondog - Symphonique #6
09 Iannis Xenakis - Orient-Occident
10 Charles Dodge - Earth's Magnetic Field
11 Salvador Dali - Oberture Et PremiŠre Entr‚e (from Etre Dieu)
12 Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Microon I
13 William Basinski - Disintegration Loops 1-1
14 Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
The excerpt from Dali's lost opera was a selection made with her in mind, as both my coworker and her boyfriend are fans of Dali's paintings. The opening and closing pieces are critical to a mix, so I open with the highly-avant-garde "pianoforte" and I believe the Eno piece is a solid closing sample for the project.
While the general focus is on electro-acoustic music, process music, chance, music for mathematics, minimalism, frippertronics, ambient, drone, noise, free jazz, third stream, and glitch musics are each touched upon in the 3-minute easily-digestible capsule of sound I've prepared.
If I can open her mind to appreciate even a single one of these pieces, I will consider the effort a success.
Happy Saturday everyone!
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