Experimental Work of the Week

cornbb

Would anyone be interested in contributing to a Work of the Week thread here, similar to the Album of the Week threads in some of the other music forums? We could nominate an album/composition every week and then discuss it, supported with audio examples, links to YouTube clips etc. Might be a good resource for discovering new music, but only if enough people get on board.

mike65

Not a bad idea, brings the usual problem of definition - Laurie Anderson yes, Jon Anderson no?

Mike.

cornbb

mike65 wrote: »

Not a bad idea, brings the usual problem of definition - Laurie Anderson yes, Jon Anderson no?

Mike.

This is true We'd need to be fairly open-minded in our definitions of "experimental" in order to attract enough posters, I reckon.

John

Yep, great idea.

Undergod

Other than the fact that different people might have different definitions, I think it's a great idea. And even that problem might broaden people's horizons re broadening their horizons...

JLemmon

Ok Sure lets Start with a Classic
Terry Riley - In C

Read More Here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_C
I got a version of this from emusic, it's about 30 mins good value for 1 track
of your 30 or 40 picks.

John

I second that nomination.

Undergod

"Music for Bondage Performance Vol. 1" by Merzbow.

cornbb

JLemmon wrote: »

Ok Sure lets Start with a Classic
Terry Riley - In C

Read More Here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_C
I got a version of this from emusic, it's about 30 mins good value for 1 track
of your 30 or 40 picks.

I'll second that too. I've heard some of Terry Riley's stuff but not this one. Will get hold of it at the end of the month when my emusic downloads are refreshed

440Hz

I like this thread! Good idea cornbb, I think I shall sub this

cornbb

Maybe its just a case of Sticky blindness, but there are now 2 Work of the Week threads at the top of the forum page now. We're going with In C for this week. Go forth and discuss!

white_falcon

cornbb wrote: »

I'll second that too. I've heard some of Terry Riley's stuff but not this one. Will get hold of it at the end of the month when my emusic downloads are refreshed

i had to study it in college in my music degree

fun piece to play. we all played it with about 20 instruments. hard to keep in time but sounds great.

i have a video of my burning terry riley's in C after our exams were over lol...controversial....

sam69

Love the idea of this thread. What about BEATLEMANIA - (THE FAB FOUR GET GLASSED!) The Beatles 'Eleanor Rigby' vs Philip Glass 'Metamorphosis' as imagined by Phil RetroSpector.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=h18XdkOeCqI

John

Mash-ups are hardly experimental though are they? Even when they involve Philip Glass they're more of a novelty than an actual experiment in sound.

sam69

I disagree. I think mash-ups are experimental by nature, albeit aural post- modernism. Yep, I agree that the novelty has slightly worn off with them due to over saturation, but the fact that we can construct a song from recycled existing pieces of music in a non-linear fashion and harmonically mix/blend them into an interpretation with a twist has cultural significance, even if that is disposable significance...

John

sam69 wrote: »

but the fact that we can construct a song from recycled existing pieces of music in a non-linear fashion and harmonically mix/blend them into an interpretation with a twist has cultural significance, even if that is disposable significance...

But that has already been done with disco, sampling in hip hop and dance music, etc. long before the mash-up became popular.

cavedave

IS Zaireeka too mainstream to count as experimental? I bought four lidl boomboxes so I could hear it.

Has anyone heard Rileys piece based on the Tain, Chanting the Light of Foresight?

John

I don't think we should shy away from more mainstream acts when they're genuinely innovative like Zaireeka is.