What is/are Intermezzo Loops?
Intermezzo loops are short pieces of music, that are enjoyed in two
main scenarios:
- (unlooped) as intermezzi between other pieces of music (or
something else)
- as loops, repeating them as long as desired
Is there a length standard for Intermezzo Loops?
Length is normally between 30 and 90 seconds long (recommended,
exceptions possible).
shorts are below 30 seconds,
ultrashorts below 15.
Are ILs from a particular genre, ex Jazz?
No, can be anything
Can there be vocals?
yes
Why is the format special?
Intermezzo loops create a space of imagination that challenges your
mind. It wants to further explore the suggested theme but that longing
remains unfulfilled in the actual recording. Repeated, if looped.
However, there is a hypnotic satisfaction through the repetition of
the loop. This longing for further exploration might even be stronger
for musicians.
Thus they enfold their real power in the repetition of the loop.
In the unlooped (one shot) form they represent a contemporary form of
consumption of compressed snippets in a time of abundance of
interesting things to explore. In which the listener is curious but
more and more uncomfortable to dedicate a long piece of time in
advance to an unknown adventure.
Intermezzo loops can also work well in other situations, that are
structurally related.
Who is playing the Intermezzo Loops?
At this point fuz has created and played all the intermezzo loops on
this site. Many have been recorded quickly as drafts/studies. In an
intense period and an average of about one per day, most during the
Covid time. Now they are released one after the other from the pool
while some new ones are still made.
However, it is an open project and intermezzo loops of others may be
listed here or somewhere else. Please make contact!
You can...
- enjoy them
- collect them (and as NFTs*) (*experimental, well I don't know
if I really want that)
- make your own intermezzo loops and add to the 'collection'
- make your own interpretations of the existing interrnezzo
themes
- practice and develop musical concepts
- create film sequences inspired by the score
Film
Another remarkable interactive project of Ifuz is the creation of film
(scenes, rhythm>) with/through music as the inspiring or
structuring input. It can be developed in a ping pong structure as
well.
A lot of the intermezzi are suitable here because of their
characteristics. The one that I consider the best, are marked, though.
Because of their length and construction they also might fit well as a
theme for video or tv productions.
(Jazz) Guitar and other instruments...
Intermezzo loops work well as a (repeating) snippet for focused
learning of musical concepts, especially when the piece reaches into
Jazz territory. You have to focus to develop and target a particular
concept instead of just 'noodeling' along. This can help a lot.
The actual loops here can also serve as
starting plots for actual longer interpretations, interpreting not
only a given composition but interpreting into an elaboration of the
composition itself
NFTs
The idea of making the loops a collectible is contemplated. Ifuz has
some reservations about NFTs but maybe we will give it try in the
future.
History
Ifuz passion are ideas. There is felt an irrestibable drive to explore
a new idea rather than to perfect an existing one. However, you are
always invited to explore it yourself or with Ifuz together. In the
years there has been built a pool of tenthousands of audio recordings
and it is difficult to review them and bring them into a format
digestable on the internet.
Another passion is creating metaphors, structural ideas with basic
'rules' that open an explorable space.
Here around 2000 there came into being a structured format for
pop/rock pieces of 60-120 second (oneminutemusic), tributing to a time
where you have more and more snippet culture when so many distractions
compete for our attention. Like 10 minute youtube videos are competing
now with one hour TVseries, Ifuz had been convinced that short music
formats will appear. More it was also driven by own experience and
self observation. In a parallel thread, spontanous recordings of
intermezzo pieces came into being, played and recorded just for fun as
one takes. So it was only a question of time the two things came
together, especially when Ifuz observed some special effects that
arose from the looping of the pieces.