The Money Project

Following the successful Door Project I proposed that for 2002 the community try a similar challenge, using a composite sample recorded during and after ICMC 2001 in La Habana. The sounds were recorded in the tourist market near Casa de las Americas, and in a smaller tourist market next to the Hotel Havana Libre. The challenge was, based on this WAV sample, create a musical work.

Detailed Rules

Absolute maximum of 4 mins duration, preferable shorter, as it will allow more pieces to be played;
The sample or part of the sample must be the only source material;
Composers must be willing to write or present a technical statement of what they did to create the piece;
Anyone may enter, even if they were not in Cuba for ICMC.
The closing date was 31 August 2002

The Decision Time has Come

A listening panel has heard all the pieces, and the concert arranged at a lunch time during ICMC2002 in Göteborg, Sweden.


1	The Sample
2	Oh You're So Adollorable	(3:58)	Gary DiBenedetto (U.S.A.)
3	Distances	(4:00)	Chapman Welch (U.S.A.)
4	Dollar Variation from Hong Kong	(3:00)	Cyprian Li (Hong Kong)
5	Dollar	(3:59)	Gunter Albrecht (Austria)
6	Remembering Money	(1:28)	John ffitch (U.K.)
7	Preludio & Fuga Electroacustica	(4:00)	Juan Maria Solare (Argentina)
8	Dollar o'mine	(3:59)	Elearzar Garzón (Argentina)
9	Suvenires	(3:55)	Stelios Giannoulakis (Greece)
10	Fiscal Decisions	(1:48)	Johanna C. Devanney (Canada)
11	This is for dancing	(2:20)	Malte Steiner (Germany)
12	Soundscape: the Space between Us	(3:57)	Joshua Bradford (U.S.A.)
13	Steve Reich's Money	(2:29)	Tak-Shing Chan (U.S.A.)
14	A thought amidst	(3:41)	Jeff Morris (U.S.A.)
15	Ethnography?	(3:38)	Michael Bassett (U.S.A.)

Acknowledgements

This project was inspired mainly by the Cha Cha Man and largely by the Door Project Concert.

John ffitch
Media Technology Research Centre
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
England

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