Curtis Roads: Point Line Cloud
Copy at Case Memorial Library
Joshua Davis wrote in Wired: "Roads is the foremost composer in a genre called microsound, where notes are broken into barely audible fragments as short as 1/1,000 of a second. It's a demanding field: Years of effort can yield only a few seconds of music. Roads has been working on one arrangement for more than 20 years, and so far it's only six minutes long. … At this point the only thing he's sure of is the track's title: 1987, the year he started to compose it. Back then, Roads was editor in chief of the MIT-based Computer Music Journal. He was also one of the leading proponents of electronic music at a time when raves were beginning to popularize it. Still, he felt that rave music wasn't going to deliver the masterpiece the genre needed if it was to be taken seriously. … His Cloud Generator software … contains about 30,000 lines of code and took about a year to write. Armed with this new instrument, Roads selected his favorite millisecond-long fragments and began arranging them bit by bit in the audio-editing app ProTools. His indie-label debut, 2005's Point Line Cloud, brought critical accolades but few listeners" (5/08, p. 55).
Joshua Davis wrote in Wired: "Roads is the foremost composer in a genre called microsound, where notes are broken into barely audible fragments as short as 1/1,000 of a second. It's a demanding field: Years of effort can yield only a few seconds of music. Roads has been working on one arrangement for more than 20 years, and so far it's only six minutes long. … At this point the only thing he's sure of is the track's title: 1987, the year he started to compose it. Back then, Roads was editor in chief of the MIT-based Computer Music Journal. He was also one of the leading proponents of electronic music at a time when raves were beginning to popularize it. Still, he felt that rave music wasn't going to deliver the masterpiece the genre needed if it was to be taken seriously. … His Cloud Generator software … contains about 30,000 lines of code and took about a year to write. Armed with this new instrument, Roads selected his favorite millisecond-long fragments and began arranging them bit by bit in the audio-editing app ProTools. His indie-label debut, 2005's Point Line Cloud, brought critical accolades but few listeners" (5/08, p. 55).
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