Here’s the idea and how you can be a part of it.  In fact, clique depends on your participation!

I created a skeletal piece of music.  It loosely establishes a tempo, tonal center, and hints at some melodies.  Let's call this Track A

I then handed Track A off to another musician and asked him to create a track to go along with it.  He did: Track B

So far, nothing unusual.  But here’s where it gets interesting.

I'll next pass only Track A off to someone else to create a Track C and then hear how that sounds against Track B.  Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't.  But that's is what experimental music is all about!

But no matter how that first experiment goes, I’ll then pass Tracks A, B, and C (etc.) on to other people until I have a veritable alphabet of clique tracks.  Just think of how wild and interesting this could get!

In the end, I will piece together an RPM album created entirely out of this material.  What exactly the album will be like in the end will depend completely upon what I get and how the experiment goes, though I’m guessing it will end up as some sort of collection of different mixes of the material, each track of which could feasibly be quite a bit different from the one before.

And in the end, this won’t be my RPM album, it’ll be our album.  And we will be clique!

Best of all, what it takes to get involved is really pretty minimal.  You can create a track of music in any style, instrumentation, density, or duration.  Want to work up a whole orchestral arrangement?  Awesome.  Just want to do some finger snapping?  Fantastic!  Wanna just sing along?  Go bananas!

So get in touch if you’re interested!  (Respond below, PM, or e-mail me: john+rpm at composerlink dot org)  If there is interest, more details will soon follow.

 

 

Update: more details have followed: clique here!