Brandon Joyce humbly submits his inexpert reflections on the possibilities of future musics, in his essay/album On the Protomusical, and its various Horizons and Meanings, Considered.

The 20-page essay is accompanied by 25 minutes of Joyce's own "protomusic" as well as 40 other sound-samples to better illustrate the points in the text. Available below.

Hard copies of the essay/album can be purchased for $5.00. The author can be reached here

This album was made possible by the generous contributions of Annelies Brock.

Essay: On the Protomusical, and its various Horizons and Meanings, Considered.

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Protomusic, by Brandon Joyce

1. Sweettooth, Part 1

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2. Sweettooth, Part 2

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3. Three-Way Radio, Part 1, Ear-rinse

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4. Fizzle Pop Organism 5. Three-Way Radio, Part2, interlude

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6. Locked and Copper

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7. Three-Way Radio, Part 3, interlude

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8. The History of Nola

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9. Three-Way Radio, Part 4, interlude

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9z. Object Conference

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Sound-Illustrations

SA1. Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music

SA2. Matt Beach, Skateboarding

SA3. Super Mario Bros, Level 1

SA4. Robotron soundtrack

SA5. Robot Wars 1

SA6. Robot Wars 2

SA7. Marilyn Monroe, Happy Birthday

SA8 Taw, Takemura

SA9. From On A Balloon, Nobukazu Takemura

SB0. Tortured Toy Noise

SB1. Hail Mary, Prurient

SB2. Ditty in Arpeggiation, typewriter

SB3. Original Tone

SB4. U Form Pitchshape

SB5. V Form Pitchshape

SB6. Squirrely Pitchshape

SB7. Q-bert, Level 1

SB8. Arrhythmic Flow

SB9. Semi-Rhythmic Flow

SC0 Flappy Action Packers

SC1 Flappy Action Packers

SC2. Denturewhiskey

SC3 Helibuster

SC4 Chatterbox

SC5 Voice Dynamics

SC6 Alien Radio

SC7 Poem Electronique, Varese

SC8 Toy Lab Mix

SC9 Jawa Wawa, a remix

SD0 Idle Chatter, Paul Lansky

SD1 Belarus

SD2 John Joyce

SD3 John Joyce

SD4 John Joyce

SD5 Spirit Explosion, author unknown

SD6 Awesome Party Genre Play

SD7 Awesome Party Vortex

SD8 Cage, Williams Mix

SD9 Ein

SE0 Amazing Revolving Store, Howard Kleger