This browser-based sequencer plays a continuous stream of music from a large, randomly shuffled library of four-second songs. Each four-second song is an exercise in reduction, using the default MIDI piano voice to articulate the most minimal of flourishes—all composed in the scale of C major. The intended use is not through one computer, but through several. The inaugural performance employed sixteen machines with one copy of the interface loaded on each machine. Infinite C accepts Play and Pause commands at four second intervals, indicated by an occasional music note icon. The interface will re-sync its clock to the server with each Play / Pause toggle.
Inspired by Andrew Shurtz and Sebastian Campos of We Have Photoshop. It is also an accidental homage to Terry Riley’s 1964 piece In C.
Broadcast on Rhizome.org. January 2009
Observed on Design Observer. February 2008