concept and idear
Composer and soundexampels

Are musical events comparable to architectonic structures?

Will people become engaged in “naively” researching a system with which they are not familiar?

Which building structures are relevant and which are not?

These are only some of the questions that were posed to the 8 different composers invited to write a musical building kit for <instant city>. These compositions could be anything from noise collages with integrated text to minimal music. The tonal result is not so much a totally-polished composed “song”, but rather is something that can be called a sound environment.
 
The clang/sound of such music building kits is thereby mainly dependent on the sound files/tones with which the composers “feed” the <instant city> software. These sound files can naturally be produced in the most various of ways, with which methods/programs (recording, synthesizers, sampler, software, etc.) were always and exclusively imported in “instant.tool”.

The software itself contains no prefabricated sounds whatsoever.

Inviting different musicians and composers not only served to provide for a variety of music, but also of diverse strategies in dealing with this “instrument”; while one composition appears to be repeatable, another is never the same; one aims to engage chance, while still another tries to avoid it; here diversity, there simplicity.

While most of the players let themselves be led by the strategy of the respective composer, the tonal result is not reduced to something “pleasing”, but rather it inspires courage and curiousity to do the “unheard-of”. Namely to keep on building!