I'd love to do this. But as I look at the clock I wonder if I'll have time. So is it possible to receive a track, give it shot, and see what happens with no real commitment. Or are you slave driving here?
Maybe drums, maybe didj, maybe flute..maybe not at all? What say you?
Absolutely, Mick! And I say we'd be lucky to have you!
- John, clique-master (not slave-driver...at least not when it comes to clique. Just ask Mr. Wentz )
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Re:clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/13 04:39We've slashed a finger of black ink...and ready to make a macchiato ...where do we sign....
-VivianCircle.
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The willingness to participate and overall enthusiasm exuded by RPMers is just gloriously overwhelming. When I started this thing just a few days ago, I figured I'd get barely a handful of interested parties and would then have to go begging to fill up a respectably-sized roster. Boy did I figure wrong!
While in theory, the more the merrier makes sense for clique, the practicality of it, considering what little time we have left, means that I can realistically only take so many.
So, starting with VivianCircle's request, I'm going to have to slate everyone else who wants to participate to be on a sort of waiting list. But please, feel free to fill up this waiting list! For all I know this will all go much faster than I've imagined. And even after RPM, there's a good chance I'll continue this project ad infinitum, assuming it goes well, that is.
So, for anyone who'd like to get on this list, here's what you do:
(VivianCircle, 17string, Mosfet and even Kirk & Wendy can skip to #2)
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Re:clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/13 06:43All right, all right!! You can have the half-chewed munchies back. And if there's any punch left over when we're done, you can maybe have some. Maybe.
Am I not an unreasonable man?
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Throw me on the list, but please not until after February! This would be a VERY cool thing to keep going after the challenge, but I don't know if I have the time to finish my own album as it stands now!
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Re:clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/13 08:11We've brewed some joe and shoveled a path to the studio door, some snow drifts into the room as the lights switch on....
and now...
now the machines are warming up and we have a new challenge at hand...having swallowed up much of the RPM with twenty five new vignettes of what we are catagorizing as "lush-pop-fragments", hear the complete "Exceptional Ruin" at Virb.com/viviancircle,
we are so into this idea of collaboration...the bow is rosined and the strings are d-tuned....and just for the record, it seems that Another Cultural Landslide and us find ourselves at the same parties each year....good people gravitate to each other....nice to be aboard with familiar faces...hey wendy and kirk!
plug: please visit ACL for their dedicatedly sweet sounds ....we love them...
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Re:clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/13 21:03Well the cycle has now started. I'd sent Joshua Wentz the original clique track, "proto-clique," and he lobbed back a curious thing called "jinn-clique." Who will be the lucky recipient to run with it? Jeff Archer of Spooky Garcia, that's who.
And very soon Michelangelo will also be receiving the original "proto-clique" to see where he can take it.
At some point I'll draw up a map of some sort showing who got what and what they created. That'll be interesting.
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clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/20 05:51Just so you know, clique is coming on swimmingly! There's still no telling what it'll become come February 29th, but if you'd like to hear some of its notes, sounds, and other vibrations, check out Joshua Wentz's latest podcast, RPMcast #3. It's in there!
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Re:clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/23 17:48I'm pretty late getting back to you on this. Please let me know if you'd still like some tracks from me and I'll try to punch something out for you.
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Re:clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/24 15:52Awesome. And you'll be getting your track in a day or so. Probably. It depends on how quickly a few other cliquesters get their tracks back to me!
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Re:clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/24 23:35o by the way i leave town on wednesday for a week. so my rpm month ends tuesday night.
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Re:clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/25 00:08I'd be done with my clique entry.. but my daughter woke up so I cannot record it until my frau comes home!
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clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/25 04:34Good heavens, Mr. Havoc! Well then I shall make sure that you get your track by Tuesday morning at the very latest.
Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to hearing what Mosfet comes back with. And I'd say there's a good chance that Boson Havoc will be hearing it soon enough, too. Hint, hint...
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Re:clique: a musical experiment - 2008/02/25 23:18Sent off an email to you this morning. I know I probably won't be able to help with the challenge, but I am interested in future endeavors.
And I am anxious to hear how this all comes out.
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What a fascinating experience clique has been! Its very nature simultaneously embraces and counters many of my own artistic instincts. I'm a big fan of collaboration, which is obviously at the core of clique. But I am also an idealist, and so my typical approach to any project is to envision the final product and then figure out how to get there, whether or not the resources are available to me. And clique is also inherently the precise opposite of this. Until the evening of February 29th, I had little idea of what the final product would be like; I had only the limited resources that I needed to get it there. I'd heard all its elements and could form this vague notion, but really, until I started playing with mixing, I just couldn't grasp it. Fascinating.
And so, at the end of the night (or should I say the beginning of the next morning), I emerged with a six-track album, clique-i. They can all be found here:
A big thanks to all you cliquesters: Joshua Wentz, Ali Kilpatrick, JesusFreke, Jeff Archer, Senza Valore, Michelangelo, Tim Nelson, Carpentron, Another Cultural Landslide, Ed Word, Di.J. Noizepunk, Zumatar and Galaxy Angel, Colin Garvey, Mosfet, Broken Robot Factory, Lunarsight, and even those would-be cliquesters that ran out of time to get cliquing.
This has been a very fun and interesting project, and I'm hoping clique will continue on in some form in the future. If you’re not already a cliquesters and you'd like to be a part of it or just follow its progress, e-mail me: clique{at}composerlink{dot}org
Meanwhile, I welcome your feedback!
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I wish I had more time at the time, but I was feeling it then and my VUA song was running around in my head. I wish I had like one more day to do the didj part I was thinking, and there really needs to be a jaw harp clique. I hear a big fife part for clique the sixth.
Nice job everyone. Might be the most fun you can have without birth control.
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Like Mick, I'd wished we had more time - and that I'd separated out the elements of the track for you - but we were seriously under the gun (having blown the majority of the month on an all too ambitious plan) and we wanted to get something to you as quickly as possible.
(And I wished we'd had time to do a VUA track as well, but... see above...)
As is, next time, we'll really work it up, and separate the track elements.
Great job, John - and y'all other clique-sters as well!
k & w, aka acl-clique
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Re:clique-i: a musical experiment album - 2008/03/03 19:04I'm impressed by the outcome of clique-i, and am definitely on board as the clique expands and continues onward.
Very cool.
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Re:clique-i: a musical experiment album - 2008/03/03 19:23CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR THEM! I can say that the Matrix on John's track listing page that shows who all got what and created what.. is a bit overhwleming in some regards.. and as future versions of Clique come out.. it's going to be insane..
I'm still reeling from the difficulty I was challenged with just doing my one layer of one track.. I don't know why it was so.. but wow..
BIG PROPS TO JOHN!!!!!!
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Once I finished my fifth mix of clique tracks, I was impressed that the album so far didn’t feel terribly redundant due to the diversity of clique tracks you cliquesters sent in. But they only totalled up to about 32 minutes, and so I had to go back and make just one more mix. And I think that just pushed it over the line of redundancy. Some of the material gets heard just one time too many, just barely venturing out of realm of “reprise” and into “repetitiveness.”
I was wishing that I'd had just a couple more clique tracks in reserve to make that last mix fresh. But I didn't.
Or so I thought.
To my horror, I just discovered that Mosfet's "aurora-clique" somehow fell through the cracks. I tried so hard to keep everything in order and properly documented, but with stuff coming at me from all directions, poor little "aurora-clique," which I happen know Dustin went through great lengths to create, is the one that snuck by me. And I could have so badly used it Friday night.
As you can imagine, I feel terrible.
But if I'd let disasters defeat me before, clique wouldn't have come to be in the first place. (q.v. Crises, Crises...... You can't get away) So here's what I'm going to do: a bonus track, "clique-i: mix the seventh," featuring "aurora-clique." RPM Challenge won't have it, but clique certainly will. Look for it within a week's time.
with red-faced apologies to Mosfet,
- clique-(not so)-master John
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