3CD - Network - Volume one: 55 music miniatures
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Archer conceived the Network project in 1993. The concept was simple to advertise worldwide for contributions by soundsmiths working in any genre,with the single condition that no piece should be longer than 90 seconds.Archer's contribution was to arrange the miniatures into a creative running order, and then to digitally edit (with massive help from Matt Wand and Daniel Weaver)the individual tracks into one continuous flow of music. Volume One is a fast moving snapshot of personal music lives and activities from many countries, including electronics, contemporary classical, improvisation, free jazz and totally unclassifiable works in the course of its 78 minute journey. In this opera for characters who nevermeet, Archer's predilection for creating large scale structures while devolving responsibility for the detail in the music reaches its ultimate conclusion.Archer conceived the Network project in 1993. The concept was simple - to advertise worldwide for contributions by soundsmiths working in any genre, with the single condition that no piece should be longer than 90 seconds. Archer's contribution was to arrange the miniatures into a creative running order, and then to digitally edit the individual tracks into one continuous flow of music. Volume One is a fast moving snapshot of personal music lives and activities from many countries, including electronics, contemporary classical, improvisation, free jazz and totally unclassifiable works in the course of its 78 minute journey. In this opera for characters who never meet, Archer's predilection for creating large scale structures while devolving responsibility for the detail in the music reaches its ultimate conclusion.
Warren Burt - Etude 28
Jenni Roditti - Epic a Niente
Mick Beck - Jasmine
Stirfry - Vein
MC Northwind - The annihilation of stars
Richard Leigh - String quartet
Tonino Miano - SBJ3
Daniel Weaver - 1 HO N&C in 90s
Future Destination - Detroit Sound
Primates - Semi-colon
Shaks - Western Geophysical
Glen Capra - 21st Century Bumble Bee
Perm Ferrets - Eidetic Imagery
Mark Ingleby - Steam In There
Transient v Resident - Fogwatch
Nicky Heinen - Umbilical Accord
Alquimia - AFATTOD
Crazy People Stuff - Shore Beautiful
Alfred Harth - A-men est Omen, Nemo est Nomen
Stephen Haywood - Bubblegum
Chris Kant - Gift of the Gab
Ian Harris - Proximities No. 3
Martin Read - While I Here Do Snoring Lie
Michael W. Evans - mprovisation for solo percussion
Jebrovia - If I
Jliat - J (excerpt)
London Labyrinth - Tread East
Neil Carver - What do you do with a herring's eyes?
Wacah Chan - Voices in the Sky
Simon H. Fell - Crammed with Distressing Brain
Steve Bloomer - Ice Creams at the Crow Park
Simon Kingsley - Shock
Glen Capra - Fragment of Multiplicity
Bywater - Crab Breath
Roger Dean - Fissuring Silence
The Next Step - Unexplained Tangents
Felicity Vernon - Sketches of Sydenham
Locofoco - Falling
Sedayne - The Raging of May
John Walters' Landscape - Rainfall
Daniel Weaver - The Ecumenical Pineapple
Primates - Hot Attics
Ian Harris - Proximities No. 5
Beto Trinidad - Lele
Ochre Mode - Pact 1
Martin Archer - Sonata #1 for multiple digital pianos
Siwula & Lang - Fish meets Horn
Robert Godman - "eye assume......." (extract)
Mark Jenkins - Thunder at Midnight
Timothy Warner - Hep
Colin Crawley - The Man with Three Heads
In be tween noise - Sokobauno (a micro opera)
Mike Sugars - Oje's Lullaby
Reviews"Utterly absorbing" - Richard Cook, Wire.
"The start of an important project" - Chris Blackford, Rubberneck.
"An unstoppable onslaught of the imagination" - Future Music.