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2002-10-03 - 7:18 p.m.

Various bits of admin to do with job transition and the new flat.

But I also listened more to the new Nono record which soon had me processing some of the Dream sounds quite radically. Its strange how I am so easily pulled into certain genres � but I put some electric guitar on as well. I suppose I am surprised at the way I find myself taking these pieces seriously � and I wonder if anyone else will.

Ciaran � who used to work for SONY on condenser microphones and who got me a quantity of CDRs for the Highveld project mailed to say that he had been looking at the kwase-kwasa.org site. He is seriously planning to cycle from John O Groats to Lands End in 5 days to raise funds next May � could we work together on corporate sponsorship. This has to be a great opportunity.

Robin mailed with some very helpful points about Bryter Later � for example that Fly is obviously the most emotionally intense piece on the whole album and that the instrumentals can be seen as an attempt to control this intensity and keep it within bounds. In trying to decode the album one might see it in terms of the sequencing on each side � the second side responding to the first by opening with the instrumental and then moving into Fly.

Peter Chatterton has put up an invitation on the KK forum. Here it is:

�A new CD will be created for the "Music for Famine" Artventure - led by CPTM (Commonwealth Partnership for Technology Management).

We invite composers and performers to contribute a track on a 12/13 track CD - the track should last between 4 and 7 minutes.

Ideally, we would like each track to be sourced from a different country and should be contemporary music with a national flavour and we hope that there will be a number of different languages involved across the 12 tracks. We are anticipating contributions from Malaysia, Britain, Swaziland, Grenada, Uganda, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana and Jordan.

You may wish to compose something special for the CD. Alternatively, you may wish to create a new performance of an existing work. Or you may have an existing track that you can contribute.

We expect contribtions to be made freely available for the compilation CD which will be sold to raise money for famine relief in southern Africa. We will also make small samples available on our web site. In return, we will publish details of the composers/performers - a dedicated web-page - and place links to your web site(s). The copyright ownership will remain with the composers/performers however, we would ask for a written statement, declaring that you are the copyright owners and that you make the track available to use (royalty free) for the CD.

We intend to manage the development of the CD via this site, so please make all responses - your proposals - to this Call via this discussion forum. In the event that we have too many offers, we will produce a further CD after the first CD is launched.

In your proposal, could you please outline the details of the track - style, instruments, singers, length, how you will produce it and anything else you think will help us to understand what you propose. You can attach files (e.g. mp3 files) in this Discussions area e.g. of similar tracks you have done.

Unfortunately, we cannot offer any production services - we will need you to send us your track e.g. on CD or high-quality MP3 format via e-mail ([email protected]). We will then collate all the tracks and publish on CD.

The problem of famine in southern Africa is increasing, so we have a tight time schedule to comply to. We hope to have completed the CD by November so please can you reply as soon as possible to this Call.

Through CPTM, we hope to get wide coverage for the CD and hope to sell it in each of the countries mentioned above plus a few more.

I'm very excited by this Artventure and look forward to hearing your proposals for tracks.

Peter Chatterton (London)�

A message from the MELA Foundation showed up in the in-box:

AWAKENING: A Sunset to Sunrise Peace Vigil

In solidarity with Terry Riley's peace vigil in Nevada City, California:

Members of the UCSD music community will convene at the Che Caf� from 7pm on Wednesday, October 2 until 7am on Thursday, October 3, for a twelve-hour performance of La Monte Young's "Composition 1960 #7", the perfect fifth B and F-sharp, "to be held for a long time".

It may seem inconvenient to stay up all night and have to go to classes the next day, but it is even more inconvenient for the innocent citizens of faraway countries to be bombed all night and have to go on with their lives the next day.

Terry Riley's concept of staying awake is a metaphor for staying vigilant and putting activism before personal comfort.

La Monte Young's "Composition 1960 #7" is a statement of continuity and

unity. The perfect fifth, B and F-sharp, "to be held for a long time", symbolizes the profound source of all sound, universal energy, eternity. As such it is an expression of peace.

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