From: Eric Lyon (E.Lyon@qub.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 11 2010 - 18:00:24 EDT
I love those SC140s! But it seems to me that they are only miniatures in the sense that Alvin Lucier's Music on a Long Thin Wire is a miniature.
Cheers,
Eric
On 11 Oct 2010, at 22:18, Eldad Tsabary wrote:
> SC140 - A very different type of EA miniature. I am not sure whether you
> considered it or not.
> http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/sc140/
> Eldad
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "jef chippewa" <jef@newmusicnotation.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 3:49 PM
> To: <cec-conference@concordia.ca>
> Subject: miniature form in EA -- what IS a miniature?
>
>>
>> is it a miniature? or just a work of short duration?
>>
>> i have looked across a number of projects and have not come across any
>> attempts to define what in fact constitutes a miniature, aside from a
>> number of divergent durational limits.
>>
>> 2-3m Concours international électro-vidéo clips (ACREQ 1991-96?)
>> max 3m Électro clips CD (empreintes DIGITALes 1990/96 and v2 1998)
>> 2-5m Concurso Internacional de Miniaturas Electroacústicas (2003-09)
>> max 3m DISContact! III (PeP/CEC CD 2003) "Electro-Shorts"
>> max 5m Miso Music "Sound Walk" (2010)
>> unspec. Bozzini Quartet, call for miniature commissions (2010)
>>
>> there are also projects not mentioning miniatures as such, but specifiying
>> interest in works of short duration (again, the lengths vary). in some
>> projects the duration is chosen for a fairly clear reason, a function of
>> the project, in others i can't find a reason in the documentation (i will
>> contact the organizers to discuss it of course).
>>
>> max 60s 60x60 Project
>> max 90s 90 Sekunde Wirklichkeit (DEGEM CD 2005)
>> max 65s Folkmar Hein's 65th birthday / retirement concert (2009)
>> 4-400s Orpheus^400 (DEGEM CD 2007)
>> "short" SFSound Group "Small Packages" project (commissioned "short
>> pieces" 2010)
>>
>>
>> and then there is the new york miniaturist ensemble (and offshoots) which
>> define the miniature (for their project) as a work having (ideally) 100
>> notes or less... what constitutes a "note" is however left to the composer
>> to determine.
>>
>> New York Miniaturist Ensemble (since 2004)
>> Chicago Miniaturist Ensemble (?-2008?) same, but in chicago
>> Vancouver Miniaturist Ensemble (2007-2010?) same, but in vancouver
>>
>>
>> comments? info?
>> cheers,
>> jef
>>
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