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Showing posts with label 10 Second Rule. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 10 Second Rule. Show all posts

Ten Second Rule / Stage 1 public unveiling

Thursday, October 15, 2009 • , • 2 comments












































Here it is, finally... enjoy the 52 Ten Second Rule entries joined together in one audio file on soundcloud!

For those of you who have no idea what a Ten Second Rule is, read on...

  1. By imposing arbitrary limitations (ten second track length) on a group of individual music makers, we hoped to compile a group of tracks that were unmistakably part of a larger project, yet showcase the unique styles / approaches of the artists involved.
  2. A time limit of ten seconds was chosen both as a challenge to the artists and as an ironic nod to the perception that attention spans grow shorter the faster internet connections become.
  3. Most categories of sound can be found in the collection - percussive, melodic, harmonious, noises, different frequency ranges etc. Thought of as ingredients for a larger composition/ compositions, these could be recombined, processed, edited in any number of different ways.
  4. With this in mind we have asked a number of artists who will be playing at our gig on 25-10-09 to use the material in whatever way they see fit as the basis for their live performances. For more information check HERE.
Update: To hear how the artists used the material at the DEAF performance, check out the sets by Dubreak, Fyodor, PushMoveClick & VinceMackMahon.

Ten Second Rule submissions please!

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 • , • 0 comments

We want a large collection of 10 second long pieces of audio / music made by people based in Ireland. As digital media proliferates, attention spans grow smaller, and as the recession flourishes a lot of creative people now have a lot of free time on their hands! So what better way to pass this time than to make a ridiculously short piece of music...

There are only 3 rules with this: submissions must be
  1. exactly 10 seconds long,
  2. original (i.e. not somebody else's copyrighted music)
  3. be in uncompressed .wav or .aif format.
One per artist please. The music or recording can be in any style, and is not restricted to electronic music. So far we've asked artists who have played at our events previously, and would now like to open the project to anyone who wants to contribute.

The deadline is September 15th.

Why

  • Submissions will be presented publically at our gig during the festival (more details coming soon), and on a special page on our website in a suitably quadrilateral style.

  • We have invited 5 acts to use these submissions as the basis of their livesets - you will hear your sounds re-interpreted in a variety of different ways depending on the artist in question. The pool of sounds / music we have so far is deep and wide, and the more there are the more the live acts have to work with.

  • You will be playing a small but important part in an internationally recognised art festival and your sense of achievment will last a lot longer than 10 seconds!

Tell any Irish-based people you know who might be interested please!

You can upload your Ten Second pieces to our dropbox below, or email us.

Send me your track