Submission deadline: December 7, 2009.

Introduction:

The RAM Gallery, founded in 1989, is a free-admission non-profit art gallery in Oslo,Norway. The gallery displays modern art and handi-crafts. The gallery presents six to nine exhibitions a year, devoting itself to the excitement in the intersection of fine art, arts and crafts, textile art, architecture and design. As the gallery completes its twentieth year in operation, a celebration of this integrated space for art is the order of the day.

“The White Cube” is an exhibit to take place in the RAM Gallery. Exhibit curator Rolf Gerstlauer approached Sackjo22 and Gurdonark to ask whether members of our CCmixter sharing music culture might soundtrack this exhibition. Thus,”The White Cube Remix Project” was born.

“The White Cube” is a concept in architecture to describe the traditional gallery space. Through this exhibition, it is the goal of the curator to broaden this construct, and to explode “the white cube” by using light and sound. As “The White Cube” takes place in a winter season in Norway, the idea of art as white lights amid a dark night on a seemingly moonless sky motivates the background of the piece.

How the Mixters can join in:

Sackjo22 created an a capella track called “ The White Cube.” Gurdonark created an ambient track called “ Winter Lights,” and an ambient sample pack with short drone and tone material for the creation of ambient/chill pieces by the remixer.

Sackjo22’s sample is to be used in songs for the “foreground” of the piece, seeking remixes suitable to a dynamic museum space, with the melodies the mixters know how to make. Gurdonark’s section is the “background” of the effort, seeking beatless ambient and downtempo pieces to be used as soundtrack music in the spaces between the songs. The goal is to create a mega-mix of CCmixter music that will be continuously looped to wish a happy birthday to the intersection of art and design through weaving music into the mix.

Here are the rules:

A. All uploads must be Attribution only, so any samples you use should either be your own or attribution samples (i.e., CC-BY). Please do not use attribution non-commercial or sampling plus samples for this project, because although the gallery is a non-profit, we do not want to worry with possible licensing issues.

B. All uploads must use either the Sackjo22 sample or the Gurdonark sample, or both. We value diversity in the submissions, but wish to have each upload tie back to one of the “thematic” original pieces.

C. Please tag your upload: whitecube. This will let us easily find your upload for the purpose of curating the mega-mix.

D. Please write about how you made your song, and, if you wish, your thoughts on the theme the White Cube/White Lights.

E. The “foreground” songs made with the Sackjo22 material should be the song you’d want to hear if you visited a really cool art museum in Norway in the dead of a wonderful winter. Your remix can be in any style you are inspired to create and you should not feel like we are only looking for ambient remixes of Sackjo22’s source material. (Although ambient is fine too.)

F. The background songs based on Gurdonark’s samples should be like soundtrack music—beatless, ambient/chill, and a set of atmospheres in which to immerse oneself in new images and new ideas.

G. Important: Deadline for upload: December 7

Each mixter chosen for the megamixes will get attribution. We are also considering ways to create tangible documentation of the project as well, which can be provided to each participating mixter. We believe this will be an exciting matter.

Sackjo22 and Gurdonark will be assembling the mega-mix. We hasten to assure you that we put our trust in the community rather than in some artificial “submission” process. Hence, while we reserve the right to moderate the submissions, and omit submissions entirely off the mark (or, also, outside the rules), our intent is to welcome all comers, and show the Mixter community in its glory.

More information about this project, including a brief discussion about the concept of “The White Cube” as well as photos and links to the RAM Gallery can be found on the blog we created to track this project, The White Cube 2009.

We do hope you will participate in this very special event.

UPDATE: You can hear the remixes here.

Gurdonark and SackJo22

This sounds great! Should we all meet in Oslo to see (and hear!) the exhibit?! :)

Very cool (figuratively and I suppose a bit literally too). I’d love to do something, but I’m not sure what y’all are looking for. I’d say I’ll use this opportunity to indulge my ambient side so can you give me some further guidance as to length of piece, etc? Feel free to reply here so others can benefit fro the info or if you want drop me an e-mail.

Congratulations to both of you for being chosen to oversee this project and lend your contributions to it. That’s great!

When you speak of foreground and background do you mean in the same song, as in spoken word foreground on an ambient background? Or do you mean there will be foreground songs (with spoken word) and background songs (with ambient samples) interspersed? If the latter, could the foreground songs be something with a beat, as long as it has the spoken word and is art gallery appropriate? I get the impression most are reading it as the former. Should I be too?

Fantastic project. Great blog. Just one little question: Is there a link on the blog site leading to this page? If yes, I apologize for having overlooked it. If not, it’s something you may want to consider adding in a prominent place or two on the blog. And/or links to the two source sample pages might also be a good idea. You may need only small additional amounts of additional Google juice to make the big G’s front page for the term “White Cube”. :-)

In response to the many queries I have recieved TO CLARIFY:

We are looking for two types of remixes:

1. Based on Sackjo22’s “The White Cube” a capella. Your remix of this source can be in any style you are inspired to work in — ambient, chill, rock, hip hop, funk, pop, experimental, jazz, etc. The only criteria is that it utilize “The White Cube” a capella.

2. Based on Gurdonark’s “Winter Light” sample pack. Your remix of this source material should be an ambient piece.

You are free to create a remix using both sources, as well.

Thanks.

Count me in :)! Seems like a great project!

This is so very perfectly up or down my alley. Gurdonark may know what I mean.

I am very much a knob-twiddler and fiddler, so detailing how I made the song could be very difficult for me. What exactly are you looking for out of a how it was made description?

*meow*

wonderful. this reminds me of a story i had called stained-glass rubick’s cube, except it’s white.

can i make more than one? i’d like to do one using samples only, and another using all original material except the required samples.