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ChamomileShark · Post by **ChamomileShark** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:16 pm

The FB group "Ambient and Experimental Music Community" have just released another compilation album on Bandcamp. The challenge for this one was to create a track exactly 1 minute long. https://aemc.bandcamp.com/album/one-minute-compositions

I'm there as Mark Ellery Griffiths "Summer's Gone"

htcnext2 · Post by **htcnext2** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:39 pm

Nice one! The unpredictable chime sounds work well in this piece.

ChameleonMusic · Post by **ChameleonMusic** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 4:19 pm

Interesting...Enjoyed the listen...yours + 10 random selections.

Each one had a distinct 'personality' (yours fitted the title very well - nice sound combos in there)!

Two frustrations with the compilation in general:

Lack of continuity of musical ideas with the central focus being quite vague...(1 minute)!

1 Minute only - most of the ones I listened to, I wanted them to be developed further!

Yours felt like a 'complete miniature', but one or two just felt like they'd been cut short at the 60 second mark and hadn't really been structured properly...creating a musical miniature is a different kind of composing that requires an unusual 'scale' of thought process, shape and form.

ChamomileShark · Post by **ChamomileShark** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:31 pm

thanks for the comments. My stuff tends to be short and is partly informed by the library music I did where you have to get in and back out again in 2.5 mins. Even so this piece was alot looser than I usually do. Glad you liked it.

ChamomileShark · Post by **ChamomileShark** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:33 pm

Just to add, the other compilations on AEMC are interesting. We all send in 2 samples, a pack is created from that and we all make a track using only those samples. I'm working on my first contribution now.

ChameleonMusic · Post by **ChameleonMusic** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:39 pm

ChamomileShark wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:31 pmMy stuff tends to be short and is partly informed by the library music I did where you have to get in and back out again in 2.5 mins.

That explains why yours had a bit more structure than some, then!

I know what you mean about Music Library writing...spent 3 months just writing 30 - 45 second long idents... and at the moment I'm creating Sonic Brands for a group of scientific companies...

Complete musical identity in 3 - 4 seconds!

All must be linked to the parent company's Sonic Brand, but must also have their own discrete identity!

(Think I'll go back to composing something easy like a Cello Concerto afterwards to bring the intensity down a notch!

ChameleonMusic · Post by **ChameleonMusic** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:45 pm

Looking at both your BCs, have you ever come across:

https://citiesandmemory.com/

Just mentioning it as Stuart who runs it has a lot of high profile projects across each year and it might well be in your 'musical ball park' as such...sorry, naff cliched phrase!

ChamomileShark · Post by **ChamomileShark** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:57 pm

ChameleonMusic wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:39 pm
I know what you mean about Music Library writing...spent 3 months just writing 30 - 45 second long idents... and at the moment I'm creating Sonic Brands for a group of scientific companies...

Complete musical identity in 3 - 4 seconds!

All must be linked to the parent company's Sonic Brand, but must also have their own discrete identity!

(Think I'll go back to composing something easy like a Cello Concerto afterwards to bring the intensity down a notch!

Did you get paid like Kraftwerk? About £200,000 for 6 notes?

ChamomileShark · Post by **ChamomileShark** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:59 pm

ChameleonMusic wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:45 pm Looking at both your BCs, have you ever come across:

https://citiesandmemory.com/

Just mentioning it as Stuart who runs it has a lot of high profile projects across each year and it might well be in your 'musical ball park' as such...sorry, naff cliched phrase!

That does look interesting. There was a guy that did a musical piece that included accents as you go down a river. I'm interested in field recordings specific to a time or place.

ChameleonMusic · Post by **ChameleonMusic** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:34 pm

ChamomileShark wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:57 pm
ChameleonMusic wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:39 pm
I know what you mean about Music Library writing...spent 3 months just writing 30 - 45 second long idents... and at the moment I'm creating Sonic Brands for a group of scientific companies...

Complete musical identity in 3 - 4 seconds!

All must be linked to the parent company's Sonic Brand, but must also have their own discrete identity!

(Think I'll go back to composing something easy like a Cello Concerto afterwards to bring the intensity down a notch!
Did you get paid like Kraftwerk? About £200,000 for 6 notes?

I wish! Take off 3 zeros and you're nearer the mark!

Allomerus · Post by **Allomerus** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:02 am

Your track has a nice feel to it. There is plenty of variation here...

In a way the whole thing reminds me of advertising and the Residents "Commercial Album".

ChamomileShark · Post by **ChamomileShark** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:47 am

The Commercial album was one of my favourites.

Ambient & Experimnetal Compilation album