From Mark Kolmar Sent Wed, Dec 31st 1997, 00:32
From Mark Kolmar Sent Wed, Dec 31st 1997, 00:32
Just wanted to throw in a (slightly self-promotional) $0.02, re: The Wire,
and tangentially, Oval and their supposed future plans:
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Ashok Divakaran wrote:
> > They wait for the music to "come
> > to them" as it were. They never write about a band that's just started up
> > with no commercial or "credible" backing. They just sit on their asses.
>
> This is simply not true. Here's a selection of some of the people, off the
> top of my head, that have had full pieces written on them in the Wire. None
> of them, to my knowledge, have "commercial or credible" backing (what does
> "credible backing" mean - that you're not part of the tape-only circuit ant
> more?)
>
> Ryoji Ikeda, Panasonic, Nijimu, Stefan Jaworzyn, John Wall, Simon Fisher
> Turner, Pete Namlook...
Hell, The Wire published an article which mentioned a project of mine in
issue 146 (April 1996):
"...One person who has seen the
potential is Mark Kolmar, whose Chaotic Entertainment Internet site
uses special software to generate CDLink instructions at random.
Choose any CD, choose a track, and Chaotic Entertainment will compose
some delightfully minimalist, looping music for you that sounds not
unlike CD deconstructors such as Oval or Nicolas Collins but which is
never the same twice." ( Brian Duguid )
The URL, incidentally, is http://www.xnet.com/~mkolmar/chaotic.html, and
it links to the full article.
--Mark
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