John Cage, in true minimalist fashion, sat quietly doing nothing for the better part of a month, before his fellow composers calmly smothered him to death with a pillow. His superior understanding of the nature of the game helped him not one iota.
Through a plate glass window, a forlorn llama could be seen, a tear glistening in his eye as he pondered the utter folly of his failed experiment. This made the Llama Gambit look positively insightful and the Apollo Doctrine seem eminently sensible. All of the planning for clever contests, educational articles and samples of mesmerizing music and video, to be distributed at a steady pace over the course of the following year, had been for naught.
S~V~S wrote:while laughing at the players is fun sometimes, having them tell you, "Oooo your game was awesome", and seeing them really getting into it is much more fun
S~V~S wrote:Well, the role, lol. The rest of us are cannon fodder
But, OK, thanks for answering, I was not sure if I would have answered that question since it is either true or it is not, its a very black and white thing. So since the roles ARE randomized for sure, then anyone could be the role. Had you cherry picked, it would be very unlikely that a known low poster would have the role knowing how you feel about that.
Ah, but in minimalism mafia, all the rules are different.
Mongoose wrote:I always hoped it would be like the Night Circus, but it's mostly me being hungry and bored with a few random students that usually just come to secretly fart in the stacks and then run away back to the hallways.
I think it might be mildly haunted though.
The Night Circus was a NaNoWriMo novel. I am jealous of its success.
What, are you joking?!? I loved it. It could have been even better though. It has a special place in my heart because that's the first book my book club ever read together. We had black and white foods that day.
It actually started as a minor digression in another novel where the characters went to the circus in an attempt to boost the wordcount. The author realized that the circus was more interesting than the main plot, and so rewrote the whole thing.
Mongoose wrote:I always hoped it would be like the Night Circus, but it's mostly me being hungry and bored with a few random students that usually just come to secretly fart in the stacks and then run away back to the hallways.
I think it might be mildly haunted though.
The Night Circus was a NaNoWriMo novel. I am jealous of its success.
Who's up for some minimalist cinema this morning? Andy Warhol filmed Empire in 1964, an eight hour continuous shot of the Empire State Building at night. I saw it on display at the Hirschorn Gallery in DC, but I did not sit through the whole thing. If it were still showing, I would make a point to do so.
Since the image contest is over, I'm going to start periodically posting links to interesting minimalist art projects or consumer products.
Let's start with a science experiment. The Pitch Drop Experiment was begun in 1927 as a way to demonstrate that pitch is actually a liquid with a very high viscosity. Some pitch was placed in a glass funnel and allowed to settle. Nine years later, the first drop fell from the base of the funnel. To date, eight drops have fallen and it has been 13 years since the last one. The ninth is expected soon. No one has ever witnessed a drop falling in real time, but now the experiment is being webcast 24 hours a day, so you can watch it and hope to be the first person to see a drop.
Since you guys were patient with me today, here is a reward. A great Nurse With Wound album made entirely from spontaneous sounds generated by a bunch of effects pedals string together with no original input. No one was sure why they were making sounds, but they were worth manipulating and recording.
(my copy of this album is signed by the creator. Squee!)
It's obviously a minimalist IKEA painting that Brian Eno caught a glimpse of while on his way to get a table top and a fistful of pencils, prior to crashing at Bowie's place in Berlin.
Note that little white horizontal line near the bottom is an artifact of my bad cropping skills and should be ignored.
I've decided to give a hint to the image challenge, since I've been in such an Eno mood lately. Brian Eno does have a remote and tangential relationship with the image. That is your hint.
I'm in an Eno sort of mood tonight, so I think I will post some minimalist music for you all to enjoy.
Discreet Music (1975) was the result of an extended hospital stay by Brian Eno when he could just hear a radio without being able to turn it off. He found the faintness of the sound mesmerizing and promptly composed this piece, which relies on iterative processes to gradually develop over its half hour length. Widely considered to be the first example of modern Ambient music, although drawing on the works of earlier composers such as Erik Satie, from whom we'll hear more later.
Mongoose wrote:I know a good bit about minimalist art, but not music. Other than a few of the musicians who are also roles. Where is a good starting place. In other words, can I have a Music Minimalism 101 primer?
Patience, Grasshopper. There will be a great deal of minimalist music posted in this thread, but I can't use it all up on the first day. Before you can listen to minimalist music, you must get used to waiting a long time while nothing happens.
