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So, Skit sees this post on
Facebook...
Xsdtrtyu Xsardtyty
27 May at 13:18
hii
Very Small is gonna be making a comp on floppy disck
track(s) have to be 0.05 sec max, images 50x50 max, textx 10bytes max
thanks ☺
Sorry, what? It must mean 5
seconds, just the way they've written it, surely? Yeah, five hundredths of a
second? That'd be mad, wouldn't it? Apparently not. Skit asked. 50
milliseconds it was. Oh, come on, how could any serious experimentalist
resist? Image at 50 pixels square? No problemo, top right, sorted. Text at
10 bytes? Well, even just the shortest format of our web address was 13
bytes, but he cut us a bit of slack on that. Nice man. Which just left the
question of what kind of sound would have any impact at all at just 50
milliseconds?
"Skit go garage for power
tools," he nodded excitedly, "we try them all, yas!"
"Can't we just try something in
the house? Something that will be easy to set up? Something that won't leave
dirt all up the stairs for Sam to tell us off about?"
"So long it noisy!" He really
talks like this.
Electric toothbrush. Have you
ever tried having an extra five minutes snooze while your partner is using
an electric toothbrush next door in the bathroom? Noisy. Sorted.
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Sam's electric toothbrush gets ready for
its big moment on the mic... |
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The Package;
Very Small are based in
Ukraine, so not in the best position to be able to mail a copy of the
finished product to the UK right now, but they did send us a photo and
Google-drove us the contents. 37 music tracks providing a total of 45
seconds of sounds. Most contributors had conformed to the 50 millisecond
rule, whilst some had been indulged, RDKPL, for example, with a 5 second
excerpt of 240224_01, which must surely count as a 12-incher under
the circumstances. One band, Qeqertarsuatsiaat Fisheritualists, really gets
into the spirit of the miniature and provides a complete album of 50
millisecond works, the whole 14 track experience of Swim Fanatic Swim And
Let Coral Be Your Graveyard coming in at less than one second. Another,
Apus Apus, are allowed to take liberties, contributing an interminably
lengthy 28 second epic. You also get 18 bits of artwork, for which I'd
recommend a magnifying glass, a mere four text files that contain a total of
30 characters (guess a lot of folk didn't have the bottle to try slipping
through three extra bytes like us, bad asses that we are, albeit ones that
go to bed at quite respectable times these days), and one 37.5kb file that
our system couldn't identify as anything other than 'File'. It was titled
see 'title', which was the name of one of the text files, so we did see
it, and it just said " . ", so long as we know. It's all a bit chaotic,
which I assume is part of what the project's is all about, but what we
really loved about it is just that... well, it is SO different!
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Quantum
Music: The Science Of The Very Small
by The
Magic Bullet Verification Team
I know what you're thinking, is
this for real? We weren't sure either, and they always say if something
seems to good to be true, it probably isn't, so we set out to investigate.
Yup, Very Small is a genuine project, a sub-label
of Genetic Trance, and this really is |
their 126th
release. If you weren't convinced by their Internet Archive, you'll also
find them all listed on
DISCOGS, including 'albums' from a few artists we've either worked with,
released tracks by and / or played on our radioshow, such as; RDKPL, The
Owl, Shaun Robert, Filmy Ghost and El Zombie Espacial. How did we miss this
before? It's no use, we'll have to do them an album... |
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