The iGasm ‘Listener’ – A Potential Avant Garde Music Audience?
With news that Apple is suing the manufacturers of the iGasm it occurred to me last night that this perhaps was a possible new venue for contemporary music. I brought up the subject with a few friends over beers and the debate began, ‘What piece of avant garde music would be the ideal iGasm driver?’
Steve Reich? Philip Glass? Xenakis? Ferneyhough? The winner at the table seemed to be the genre of noize punk. Driving 200 BMP noise. But who knows? Maybe your music could be a hit at this latest of new music venues extended! What piece of music would drive the adventurous iGasm user into sensory overload?
4’33” might be the the least effective, but Feldman could take the cake for sheer frustration.
Yes, that’s correct about Palestine—one of my favorite works by him, actually. Forgot about that.
Re: 4’33”: if it’s feet and inches rather than minutes and seconds, I’m not sure the “ineffectiveness” is tenable
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Charlemagne Palestine have a piece called “SCHLONGO! : theLUVVdrone,” or something similar? That’s probably a winner.
It would also be interesting to consider which music would be the absolute WORST for this purpose. Or maybe not – I guess 4’33 would be pretty hard to top for sheer ineffectiveness.
Ferneyhough for the horny few?
A work by Andrew Thomas from the 70s as recorded on the Opus One label: Pricksong
Russell Peck: “Lift-Off” for 9 bass drums.
Holy crap this is funny!
Wait a minute – “Music for 18”.
I don’t know, I think Metastasis would do fairly well…
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It has to be Glass: again, again, and again…and again…
Aha! A definitive means to mediate all classical-music smack-downs: Wagner vs. Brahms, Schoenberg vs. Stravinsky, Babbitt vs. Reich. Who REALLY delivers the O?
Something tells me this would make the guys in So Percussion very, very popular…