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I meant to say, the idea of making a small piece of music and calling it a ringtone(it's really just an audio file, you could have it on your ipod if you wanted) was inspired by a porject/website called Toneshared.
Real proper musicians and producers doing real proper music, short enough you can put it on your phone. Not quite crazy frog. Before I found that, I don't think I took the idea of ringtones seriously at all(While I'm not sure "seriously" is the best description of how I now take them, I have since made a few).
Here's a gentle one, by Vladislav Delay, and here's a harsh one, by KK Null.
I'm not sure how many of these will actually end up on phones, but I have used one myself, the latter of the above. The focus on short pieces does remind me of an interview I read once with Eno, regarding the music for Windows 1995:
"The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, 'Here's a specific problem -- solve it.' The thing from the agency said, 'We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,' this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said 'and it must be 3ΒΌ seconds long.' I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time." |
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