And then, something cliqued!
(Sunday, 10 February 2008) Written by clique
In my previous post , I talked about how I’m (now officially) ditching my previous plan for the RPM Challenge.  This is the new one:



Back in around 2000, I had this neat idea for an experimental music project.  For some reason, I never went through with it.  Now I’m going to use RPM as an excuse to try to go through with it.  And it’s called:

clique

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!

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  Comments (5)
 1 Pretty brilliant!
Written by IronAngel Forge, on 02-10-2008 00:37
This is a pretty brilliant idea! You should run with this even after RPM. Something like a "clique of the month" or the like. What do you think? If I wasn't so swamped already and getting myself into other things as I go along, I would be in in a second! 
 
Heck, I may still be... this is a really cool idea!
 2 A Warm Heart
Written by John LaSala, on 02-10-2008 00:49
Ah, that warms my old heart. Your enthusiasm is definitely encouraging, J. I'd say you're pretty locked in for at least a wee bit of a contribution at this point. :) 
 
If this does well here, I certainly will entertain the idea of carrying it on beyond this RPM, even if it means I just wait till RPM '09. But here's the cool part: the next clique would take of of this clique's tracks as its new starting point. 
 
Did I just blow your mind?
 3 i'm in :)
Written by ali kilpatrick, on 02-10-2008 06:19
Thats a pretty cool idea! There must be something about working under pressure that theres a whole load of cool ideas being dreamt up on this site. very much lookign forward to hearing the results! 
 
ali
 4 Ding
Written by Joshua Wentz, on 02-10-2008 09:56
Works for me.
 5 Written by Boson Havoc, on 02-11-2008 02:22
sign me up!! i've been wanting to do soemthing like this for a while

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