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Yesterday at the rehearsal of MACHUNAS instead of being dragged off for a coffee or snack in between acts, I stuck around as musicians wandered in and out and practiced by themselves or in small subgroups.
What I heard blew my mind. Since they were practicing MACHUNAS, each was playing a phrase of my music, but it was all mashed up: a line from one act mixed with a countermelody from another and on and on. I recognized it all of course, but it had been morphed into something quite different. I rather liked it, and suddenly realized that this whole recent notion of mashups is not such a new idea at all and actually does not even require any kind of technology. And, the fact that this particular mashup was totally random gave me a whole new (old) notion about indeterminacy as well. Undoubtedly the desire to reconjure some of these sounds will fuel a future composition at some point.
So, onto a hopeful threadstarter here... Has hearing your music in rehearsal affected your subsequent music making? And, if so, how?
posted by Frank J. Oteri
1:56 AM
