Update 12/14/2011:
Yesterday, Apparatjik made their second album available for free download on their Facebook Page. The album is called ‘Square Peg In A Round Hole’, and it is part of a larger project which also includes an iPad magazine and live performances in 11 cities next year.
The free album download is only the first draft, however. Apparatjik has announced that they intend to release 10 more versions of the album weekly, leading up to a final, official album release on February 21, 2012. The official release will incorporate input from the public via the band’s Facebook Page, in the form of comments, suggestions and poll responses.
If you want a more direct way of contributing to the album, you can also obtain the full stem files from apparatjik.com, by providing your e-mail address and agreeing to the terms of the music collaboration project. Once you have the stem files and the audio mixing software of your choice, you can remix the songs yourself and upload the result to Apparatjik for their consideration. The deadline to participate is February 7, 2012.
Here is a statement released by Apparatjik:
Apparatjik is chiefly a conduit for creative trip-wiring: first you find out how a thing works, then you break it. all children learn this way. all adults too. on the new album we have collaborated with other artists and now we want to invite our fans and other musicians to contribute by commenting, voting for ideas or taking raw elements from the album and work with, embellish and submit back to us. we have collaborated with our fans in this way for visual projects like ‘everybody is a pixel’ at the Neue Nationgalerie in Berlin and our new iPad magazine ‘apparatjik world’. this time we’ll try with music.
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- 12/14/2011 – Drowned In Sound: Apparatjik release new album, ask people to collaborate on the final version
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Everyone Is One Bar Collaboration Project
Posted 11/16/2011:
Apparatjik has released a magazine for the iPad, which contains performance videos, photos, fan art, interview clips, links to external press, interactive games – and a brand new full-length Apparatjik album! As far as we know, this marks the first time an artist has released an album embedded within the iPad magazine format.
The new Apparatjik album is called ‘Square Peg in a Round Hole’, and is currently only available commercially via the iPad magazine. However Apparatjik fans who planted a tree as part of the agreeneryouniverse project were given a free download of the album via e-mail on 11/15/2011.
If you are not one of the ones who planted a tree or who own an iPad, don’t worry – there will be a wider release of the album in more formats in due course. We also understand that the version of the album on the iPad is not necessarily the final version.
‘Square Peg in a Round Hole’ Tracklist:
01. Time Police (3:23) | | discussion
02. Sequential (3:18) | | discussion
03. Your Voice Needs Subtitles (4:04) | | discussion
04. Signs of Waking Up (3:36) | | discussion
05. Pakt (1:25) | | discussion
06. Combat Disco Music (3:42) | | discussion
07. Do It Myself (3:07) | | discussion
08. .,,. (dot comma comma dot) (5:13) | | discussion
09. (Don’t Eat The Whole) Banana (3:23) | | discussion
10. Gzmo (4:14) | | discussion
11. Super-positions (1:31) | | discussion
12. Control Park (3:51) | | discussion
General album discussions: West of the Moon Forum | | Apparatchick Forum
The magazine is called ‘Apparatjik World – Issue A’ and it was released on 11/11/11. It is available for free in iTunes stores worldwide. The second issue is due out in February.
Here are a couple of screen shots from the magazine:
Related Links:
Mike Perkins draws 6-page comic for Apparatjik World
Newsletters from Apparatjik.com: 11/22/2011 | | 11/29/2011 | | 12/06/2011
