The Multiplayer Musical Jigsaw Puzzle (MMJP) is a new approach towards composition, in which the listener - i.e. you - actively takes part in the creative process of composing, becoming co-composer of her/his own personalised audio material.
Rather than serving the consumption of fully composed music, the MMJP requires listeners to assemble their own music from initial sonic building blocks provided by the composer.
This MySpace profile is based on version 1.0 of the MMJP: 32 audio files in mp3 format which are available for download in batches of six, alternating between the six batches in a weekly cycle.
Alternatively, the whole collection of files plus an instructional pdf is available as a bit torrent at The Pirate Bay
The files are numbered 01 to 32, which represents the order they were written and recorded in rather than any kind of ranking.
Instructions:
If you want to have a go at compiling the MMJP, please download these files and open them in your preferred software (or hardware) sequencer. Anything from Garageband to Cubase, Logic, Ableton Live, ProTools etc will do.
Please do treat the provided files as if they were sonic Lego bricks. Just like a box of those, the MMJP contains various pieces of different (sound) colour, size and shape. And just like Lego bricks, they are all of the same kind, despite their differences, and able to be combined in any way, using either a limited amount of the available bricks, all of them, or even some extra ones taken from an additional box (i.e. your very own sound files or recordings). There is no intended way of combining the pieces, which means that there are a multitude of solutions to the MMJP, and every single one is as relevant as any other. Your own taste, preference, and skill are the only factors determining the musical end result and the actual point of completion.
Use your imagination and creativity to assemble and process the provided building blocks in any way you like. For example they could be arranged in whichever order, repeated or looped, sent through effects processors, time stretched, pitch shifted, reversed, layered, edited and so on. As mentioned above, feel free to introduce your own audio material!
Once you have assembled your own piece(s) of music from the MMJP, please post a link to your creations on this pofile and/or email an mp3 file of it to: [email protected].
Legal Aspects:
The Multiplayer Musical Jigsaw Puzzle by Thomas Tichai is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License .
You are entitled to use all provided audio material for private purposes - including the creation of new pieces and/or sampling. Your resulting compositions may be multiplied and shared with friends (as files, online, or as hard copies) as long as you acknowledge the copyright holder and the Multiplayer Musical Jigsaw Puzzle as a source and allow the same treatment of the work you created.
Commercial use of these files is prohibited in any case, unless explicitly authorized by the copyright holder!
See above link for details.
About:
The Multiplayer Musical Jigsaw Puzzle (MMJP) has been developed since 2005 by Thomas Tichai as part of an ongoing post-graduate research project in Sonic Arts at Liverpool School of Art & Design, Liverpool/UK.
© Thomas Tichai 2006/2007
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