welcome to XX CENTURY CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS RE:COMPOSED PROJECT :
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FOR original Re:composed XX century MUSIC
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Re:composed? Take the same ingredients and make another mixture.
The project of XX Century Contemporary Composer Re:composed started in 1995, when we felt the XX century contemporary music's death after more than fifteen years of agony. Here, we try to rebuild what xx century contemporary composers destroyed : sense of music.
But what was XX century contemporary music? At the beginning, a free music outside formatted rules of convention, but with lot of serious and unbearable composers. That became an abstract and erudite music for an international elite that even couldn't understand what was going on. We never knew why most of contemporary music performance was so serious? To loose their audience? Our workshop of XX century contemporary composers re:composed is an arbitrary test of what should be the restart of free music, but with fun of course." Here, we build the Infinite Collection of Free Re:composed Music made by Free Unexpected Composers from the world.
It is time to create music for Public Domain that everybody can access for free.
WHO'S NEXT ?
Copyright has a sense for dealers, not for artists. Soon it will become obsolete. We proclaim in this project: music against copyright, to preserve the freedom of music against ownership business to the detriment of composers and music, like it happens today.*
non exhaustive
list of re:composed composers proposed by re:composing composers [+ links to
composers pages]:
(1921) anestis logothetis
(1896-1948) antonin artaud
(1918-1970) bernd alois zimmermann
(1912-1997) conlon nancarrow
(1926-1998) david tudor - the re:compositions CD vol5.01
(1945-1979) demetrio stratos
(1930) dieter schnebel
(1883-1965) edgar varèse - the re:compositions CD vol3.01 ++++++
(1935) françois-bernard mache
(1900-1959) george antheil
(1946-1998) gérard grisey
(1905) giacinto scelsi (comte d'Ayala Valva)
(1923) gyorgy ligeti - the re:compositions CD vol8.01 +
(1901-1974) harry partch
(1939) heinz holliger
henry chopin
(1922-2001) iannis xénakis - the re:compositions CD vol4.01 ++
(1926) Ilhan Mimaroglu
(1938) jean-claude eloy
(1901-1985) jean dubuffet
(1912-1992) john cage
(1929) josef anton riedl
(1928) karlheinz stockhausen - the re:compositions CD vol1.01 +++++++++++ is complete [2003] | the re:compositions CD vol1.02 +++
(1933) krzysztof penderecki
(1935) la monte young
(1929) luc ferrari
(1924-1990) luigi nono
(1925) luciano berio - the re:compositions CD vol7.01
(1931) mauricio kagel - the re:compositions CD vol6.01
(1949) michael lévinas
(1933) murray schafer
(1908-1992) olivier messian
(1925) pierre boulez
(1927) pierre henry - the re:compositions CD vol2.01 +++
(1910-1995) pierre shaeffer
(1930) robert ashley
(1936) steve reich
(1930-1996) toru takemitsu
(1934) vinko globokar (1934)
(1911-1990) vladimir ussachevsky
...+ = received re:composition
WHO'S NEXT ?
non exhaustive list of re:composing new generation composers:
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acapulco laps
alain de filippis
alexis bosch
alfred harth
andrea martignoni
androvirus
david fenech
dick acidsoxx
falter bramnk
fedaden
hagop gehlhaar-matossian
igor stevanovic
jim jandt
laurent dailleau
le vieux thorax
mario aloe
matthew ostrowski
myster shadow-sky
nikola kodjabashia
pvh
richard riewer
rolf gehlhaar
shauly denneboom
techtel mechtel
toy bizarre
...
we are waiting for others, the new generation composers to continue this courageous adventure.
2003_Re:composers Band poster
RE:COMPOSITION RECIPE: choose the contemporary composer you want to re:compose, compose 6 minutes maximum of music, through sounds, score, text, picture or movie with the composer's material you choose, then send your creation (DAT or CD-R or CD rom or floppy disk [pc or mac] format) to: le centre de la bombe (e-mail to ask for recent mail address), to put your original creation with others in le centre de la bombe web site and on disk when it will be complete. Remember, a re:composition can be:
• .|. a recorded music (AIFF or WAV file),
• .|. a score (MIDI file)
• .|. a text (.txt or .doc or .rtf)
• .|. a picture (jpeg)
• .|. a movie (DivX)
• .|. an animation (DivX/Flash)
Music beyond copyright by the born-French composer Myster Shadow-Sky.
"The idea of re:composing contemporary composers' music from the XXth century, grew up when I was sampling(1) for fun the LP Momente. My wish was to make a piece with K. Stockhausen's music in total opposite of his musical approach: to sound Momente like a folkloric music from Slavic countries! And this is the piece: Momente_shacked:_Hurry-up! First I was planning to make a CD with just my re:compositions of emphasis composers but Gyorgy Kurtag jr in 1996 asked me: "why not to share my project with other artists?" I liked the idea and I made lots of announcements in music magazines, newsletters, etc. in Europe and US. After waiting 7 years to receive re:compositions on DAT or CD, I am surprised that we are today only 21 composers who are sticking with the project! I thank you all re:composers to make this project possible."
(1) a sampler is an audio machine that use any sound to create a musical instrument, sampling is the action to record a sound and to use it as an instrument.
Myster Shadow Sky interviewed by Louis Rouaut, Radio Toulouse 1996. Updated 2003
simply said:
centrebombe re:composition project is: using other's music to make others original music to built a huge and infinite collection of re:composed free music by alived composers who will be re:composed by other composers and so on indefinitely, and to protect all these different re:composed music together in public domain and copyleft protection.
* This project is also an healthy reaction against the non sense of today's copyright and royalties (droits d'auteurs). Why copyright and royalties is a non sense today? Because most of unknown artists has a small chance to get her/his entire royalties. Most unknown professionnal alive composers today work for free! Because their royalties are not paid. So why, we have to continue to feed big companies with our free work? Le centre de la bombe is not agree with this monopoly of national royalties institutions, and each composer should have its own organization to get her/his royalties. This is what le centre de la bombe try to do: to stop this exploitation through the re:composition project..
All music in this project are under the copyleft protection. It means that they cannot be used by any company to make business of it. We composers proclaim and support this law against abusive business. We, unknown composers, volontary offer our re:composition to public domain protected against business exploitation. All alive composers decide by participating in this project to "give" her/his re:composition to public domain protected against business exploitation.* All these music named "re:composition" are not businessable and protected by international law. Toutes ces musiques sous la dénommination : "re:composition" sont interdites à la commercialisation par des compagnies à but lucratif, c'est une loi sous protection internationale.
Le centre de la bombe's workshop of "XX century contemporary composers re:composed" doesn't seek to emphasize any contemporary re:composed composers. Contemporary music was in second half of XX century, an open door to free creation (like ever it happens in Western musical history) that the end of XX century closed it - for several reasons.
These compilations of "re:compositions" of XX century contemporary composers pieces by today's musicians, try to create a link. A link between what was the freedom of creation of the second half of XX century bringing back in our XXI century excited more by money than by the freedom of original creation.Our re:composition project has no obliged rules or instructions (just 6mn max of duration per re:composition to fit 12 different re:composers per album, that some composers cannot respect, but does it matter?) and any controlled submission: everybody is free to create its own music with matter of XX century contemporary composers' music. There is no 1rst price to excite the mercantile sense of profit who kills free original musical creation, just the pleasure to be together on the same project. We are not supporting any commercial companies or advertising with free participation of composers! All re:compositions are copylefted even for the subjective identified parts of composer re:composed's piece/s. We make free music for free mind people.
*Don't think that we are nostalgic of rigorous XX century composition techniques (like serialism, collage, spectralism, or other closed algorithmic forms, etc.) that hopefully today's some young composers make it evolves in complexity or simplicity, but does it matter? we are attached to uncompromised way of original creation to have fun with enthusiastic audience that could appreciate our "crazy" music.
mathius shadow-sky, january 2003.
L'atelier du centre de la bombe : "XX century contemporary composers re:composed" ne cherche pas à établir un culte des personnalités re:composées, comme certains compositeurs re:composables doivent se l'imaginer. La musique contemporaine à été dans la seconde moitié du XXème siècle, une ouverture à la liberté de création (comme jamais cela s'est présenté dans l'histoire de la musique occidentale) que la fin du dit siècle a refermé - et dont les causes sont multiples.
Ces compilations de "re:compositions" de pièces de compositeurs de musiques contemporaines par de jeunes musiciens d'aujourd'hui, essayent de créer un lien. Un lien entre ce que fut la liberté de création de la seconde moitié du XXème siècle ramenée dans notre XXIème siècle exacerbé par le profit au détriment de sa propre liberté créative.Notre projet de re:composition n'a aucune règles ou instructions obligatoires (seulement 6 minutes de durée maximum pour la re:composition, pour que au moins il y ai 12 re:compositeurs par album, mais est-ce vraiment important ?) ni une inscription sous contrôle : chacun est libre de créer sa propre musique avec les matériaux musicaux des compositeurs contemporains du XXème siècle. Il n'y a pas non plus de 1er prix qui excite plus l'esprit du profit et annihile la création libre, seulement le plaisir d'être ensemble dans le même projet. Nous ne supportons aucune compagnie commerciale ou publicitaire avec une participation libre d'artistes ! Toutes les re:compositions sont sous la protection du copyleft international ainsi que les parties de musiques subjectivement reconnaissables des compositeurs re:composés. Nous créons une musique libre pour ceux qui désire cette liberté.
*Nous ne sommes pas nostalgiques des techniques de composition musicales rigoureuses (comme le sérialisme, le collage ou le spectralisme, ou tout autre formes algorithmiques fermées etc.) de cette époque qui grâce à certains jeunes créateurs ont aujourd'hui évolué (en complexité ou en simplicité, peu importe), mais nous sommes très attaché à l'esprit de création et d'originalité sans compromis pour générer du plaisir avec des public enthousiastes qui puissent apprécier nos musiques de "fou".
mathius shadow-sky, janvier 2003.
• Ne pas confondre emprunt ou citation avec centrebombe-re:composition [txt]
It is difficult for us, in the center of the bomb, to sacrifice intelligence in music composition for compromising easy music just to believe that stupid music will sell more CDs or bring more people in concert hall! That means that most today's music producers think that music customers are stupid... Are we?
DIFFERENCE : REMIX / RE:COMPOSITION =
Nous disons bien RE:COMPOSITION et non pas REMIX. Le remix est un mixage (un [re]dosage) refait à partir des pistes originales enregistrées pour donner à une chanson la couleur propre au goût majoritaire du pays visé : c’est le fait d’introduire dans un groupe ethnique une musique étrangère mais avec la sonorité du groupe ethnique. Comme par exemple, un remix techno du Beau Danube Bleu de Richard Strauss va permettre au groupe ethnique techno d’entendre le Beau Danube Bleu avec leur son techno.
La re:composition n’est pas un remix car elle n’a pas l’ambition de prendre l’apparence d’une « chapelle » ou d’un groupe ethnique. La re:composition prend les mêmes ingrédients que la musique à re:composer mais les agence de façons différentes pour donner une musique unique. Parfois l’ingrédient peut se reconnaître, parfois pas. Mais là n’est pas le propos. Le propos est la création d’une musique originale avec une musique existante. MS2003
le centre de la bombe contact: falter bramnk & mathius shadow-sky