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John Kannenberg: Terry Riley’s In C (in four minutes)
on Monsters of Experimental Music, Vol. 1
Monsters of Experimental Music, Vol. 1 is a collection of well-known pieces of experimental music, curated by John Kannenberg, and condensed down into four minutes each. While the average song length quoted in iPod ads is four minutes, most experimental music takes much longer, and Kannenberg squeezes these pieces until they fit the pop mold.
It is an efficiently thought-provoking work, conceptually prodding at notions of curation via reference to popular culture, while not neglecting the actual sonic features of the pieces. (Now That’s What I Call Music! is on release #31 in the US…) The density of Riley’s In C works particularly well with the speeding-up process, but I also recommend his version of my personal favorite, Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room.
You can download the whole thing for free.
