Sergi Jorda/F@ust Music Online interview. by Alessandro LudovicoHow many people concurred to F@ust Music Online?
From 98-01-18 to 98-04-16 (the date in which the reception of pieces for the show concluded), more than 1,100 brief pieces by around 100 composers were submitted, but the core of assiduous participants was no more than 20. These constituted a virtual family, which communicated every night, exchanging sounds, creating music collectively, without knowing each other. They were the FMOL junkies; creators who spent several hours a week during a three months period, and with whom I exchanged numerous technical and esthetical e-mails. Given the SGAE promotion, this influx may seem somewhat poor, but the existence of this selected and faithful core group was enough to justify all effort involved. When conceiving FMOL, one of my personal aims was to conceive an engine and a graphical interface that could be attractive to both trained and untrained electronic musicians. And I think that this goal was fully attained. We now know that several of these "faithful" participants had not a prior contact with experimental electronic music; a few were even composing for the first time, but all of them, took it, however, as a really serious game, and the final quality level of the contributions was really amazing. On the other side, I would like to say that during this period, I did also receive many e-mails from more orthodox composers, puzzled and confused by that crazy piece of software, but who still wanted to collaborate with La Fura in a more traditional manner.
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