Lawrence & I have each been making minutes for the past 2 months or so, and each time one of us finished we would send the other one the last 3 to 5 seconds of our minute. The other would then build upon those 3 to 5 seconds to make a new minute. Tonight, we finally put them all together! This is the 2nd time we've done this - the first time was the experiment that began our whole minute music website.
The cycle is complete. Here is my 60th minute made up of all its predecessors. All my minutes in one minute, damn. Every fragment is 1 second long. I took the first second from the first minute, the second one from the second minute etc. However i did smuggle some milliseconds left or right where i felt it would serve the flow of the collage. The inevitable question of course that is burning on your very tongue is: 'yeah, but what's the 60th and final second made up of?' That last second, my friends, is made up of all preceding seconds in the same fashion as the whole is built up out of all the preceding minutes. If you wonder what the 60th part of the last second consists of though... well... we'll just have to leave that to your imagination now won't we?
So this is it guys! One of us has finally reached the frontier. The 60th minute; a minute for every second in a minute! I'm going to make the leap, the big one. Once one passes through this barrier one goes from being mere man to being a MinuteMan. I bet y'all are excited as i am, boy oh boy! Of course before you may wander into the dimensions beyond, you must prove yourself worthy of the title and fit to venture out on the journey into the unknown.
As it is written in this sentence that i'm typing right now, one can only transgress to the next level after passing the sacred minute test. This test puts forth the challenge of posting within a week 7 proper and true minutes that exemplify that you have truly understood and mastered the art of minute music making. Ideally one would post one minute everyday. Unfortunately i've been caught up in the wallpaper scraping game. Having posted 7 minutes within a week and thereby reaching the 59th minute i believe i'm ready nonetheless.
What comes now is kind of a right of passage and also a celebration of the art of minute making. I'm now going to mentally prepare myself for this final stage, the one that will make my transformation complete, by drinking 4 liters of banana milk and taking an ice bath. The procedure takes the utmost concentration and dedication. One slip-up may prove fatal. If i don't report back in a day or two it means i've failed the test and am now most likely dead or living in Luxembourg under the name Fransz von Schlagerau. Hopefully i will see you once again after i've arisen as a MinuteMan, Man of Minutes.
I've noticed that the 'minutes' on this blog are getting longer and longer. Somewhere along the road we lost our minute music making ways. Corrupted by an evil and deceitful world, we chose to ignore our founding principles. Losing ourselves in endless musical statements that wither away in redundancy. The principles that made us what we are today we have forsaken. Being a man of tradition however i figured it was my task to restore in honor the proper musical minute. Yesterday there were two and here's yet another one.
Well, i tried to update the playlist but as happened to me earlier it won't work. I don't know what i'm doing wrong. Here's the list with direct links to the best of 2008:
