9 Beet Stretch 2.0: Meta Tones

Description

9 Beet Stretch 2.0: Meta Tones

The Ambisonic Guild is an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the exploration and study of experimental sound, electroacoustic music, microtonal montage, ambisonics, patahysics, sound art, and performance, in all formats, and from all periods. We are dedicated to increasing and diffusing the knowledge of acoustics and art.

Created and coordinated by artist Mauricio Reyes (Cycom),  the 9 Beet Stretch 2.0: Meta Tones is an exploration of the properties of time and acoustics. It is about the design and construction of sound structures built according to the law of chance. It is also about time transformation, musicology, and acoustics. It pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. It is explained broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, institutionalized compositional, performing, and aesthetic conventions. It contains elements of indeterminate music, in which the composers can introduce the elements of chance or unpredictability concerning their compositions. Artists approach a hybrid of diverse styles or incorporate unorthodox and unique elements without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s) involved.

Compositional practices for this project employ limited or minimal musical materials. Prominent features include repetitive patterns or pulses, steady drones, consonant harmony, and reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units. It includes features such as phase shifting, resulting in what is termed phase music, or process techniques that follow strict rules, usually described as process music. The approach is marked by a non-narrative, non-teleological, and non-representational approach, and calls attention to the activity of listening by focusing on the internal processes of the music.

The 9 Beet Stretch 2.0: Meta Tones has its foundation on the 9 Beet Stretch which is a remarkable remaking of Beethoven’s 9th as massive soundscape: a piece in which familiar motifs develop twenty times more slowly than we’re used to, at times lovely, at times overwhelming. It is the best-known symphony in the world transformed into a dramatic, haunting, and hypnotizing soundscape that passes like clouds over a vast landscape.

The 9 Beet Stretch remains in essence a classical piece of music stretched to 24 hours. The objective of this project is to transform this piece of modern culture one more time to turn it into a vast electroacoustic landscape. A group of notable experimental musicians has been invited to participate. The original 9 Beet Stretch will be divided into multiple segments, each participant will receive one. There are no rules in terms of the approach of the participants in this project, they create their own rules as they work. The resulting piece is a mix of field recordings, processed electronics, stretched segments from some of their existing compositions, movie segments, or other audio sources that exist under a creative commons license.

All the participants are seasoned musicians with decades of combined experience in the field of sonic research, ambisonics, pataphysics, electroacoustic and experimental music. The creative process has been simplified by re-using existing audio materials and applying carefully the law of chance. Creating overlays without expectations to discover new possibilities not achievable with planning. Then re-arranging these layers of sound to create sophisticated, cerebral pieces of experimental music.

The Ambisonic Guild:

Adi Newton (The Anti Group/Clock DVA) – UK
CM von Hausswolff – Sweden
Leif Inge (Creator of the 9 Beet Stretch) – Norway
Mauricio Reyes (Director of the 9 Beet 2.0/Cycom) – México
John Duncan – Italy
Marc Behrens – Germany
Michael Esposito – USA
Manuel Rocha Iturbide – México
Oleg Puzan (Dronny Darko/Line Spectrum) – Ukraine
Frans De Waard (Freiband) – Netherlands
Jac Beloeil – France
Mykel Boyd – USA

For more information, please visit 9beet2.com.