Terre Thaemlitz et une partition exposée dans le cadre de Cornelius Cardew, la liberté de l'écoute, au CAC de Brétigny (aucun rapport avec Thaemlitz)Citons Terre Thaemlitz:
"Our reckless extension of goodwill [via pro bono projects and performances] is ultimately an act of self-sabotage. The impassioned artist's stance, 'art for art's sake,' obfuscates a labor issue. The iconic struggling artist who volunteers her work is a scab, but does not know it. If demanding payment for our labor means culture industries would collapse, then so be it. Perhaps we would finally begin conceiving of cultural production in terms larger than industry. Or more likely, we might find that we cannot exist without those industries which fail to support us, making us already pathetically irrelevant. Either way, I shan't be mourning." - Terre Thaemlitz
* 1930: Introduction of the 36 minute 33RPM Long Play (LP) album
* 1980: Introduction of the 74 minute audio CD (followed by 80 minute 700MB discs, and now 90 minute 800MB discs)
* 1991: Introduction of the MP3 file format (file duration determined by media size [CD, MD, etc.] or computer OS file size restrictions)
In the era of MP3 downloads, the link between performance duration and media format duration has been severed. The album as a format is dead in the wake of single-track downloads. Simultaneously, record labels demand that audio producers produce albums that fill the longer media formats while paying lower advances and royalties. Between June 6-16, 2008, Thaemlitz recorded the first full-length MP3 album (4GB, FAT32 compliant, approx. 30 hours at 320kbps) in England at York University's Sir Jack Lyons Music Research Centre. That album (to be released in data DVD-ROM format, label undetermined) is an edit of a 31 hour piano solo recorded in sittings averaging 4 to 6 hours in length (after all, what is an album without a fadeout of the longer studio sessions?). The theme is "Meditation on Wage Labour and the Death of the Album." The duration of this live performance is a minimum of 81 minutes, so as to preclude a recording from fitting onto a conventional audio CD."
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