Bright Idea
How's this: an 'educative' version of Rock Band, in which players are required to reconstruct slightly more difficult numbers. On the easiest difficulty setting, this includes Cage's 4'33". The second-highest setting includes Mauricio Kagel's Match, Faust's Concerto for Voice and Machinery, and the entirety of AMM's hour-plus 'Newfoundland'. Pity the poor guy who has to pretend to be John Tilbury. Worse yet is the final difficulty setting: Cornelius Cardew's Treatise.
posted by Dan at 8:39 AM
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Run that idea with the developers and see what they'd think. I'd buy it but then stop playing it with the realisation that I could play these pieces on actual instruments better than on the game.
It's interesting you should say that - I was watching some guys in my halls play 'Rock Band' when the realisation hit me: all you're trying to do in the game is perfectly recreate the original recording; bum notes are rendered as deviations from the template. Hence my scalding irony. It's retro-rockism writ large: there is nothing but the archive; don't play just because you enjoy making sound, don't explore. The latter two are the entire purpose of improvised and indeterminate music; if you wanted to perform AMM's 'Newfoundland' properly, you would improvise.
Anyway, they missed Slayer and Van Halen off 'Rock Band', and it is hence highly incomplete.
And if you wanted to do 4' 33' 'properly' you wouldn't *do* it at all.
*Precisely*.
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