2'42" is an online series that reflects on the evolving nature of duration and form in this globalized new millennium. 

A claim has been made that 2 minutes and 42 seconds is the perfect length for a pop song. This statement has been circling the internet, independently initiated by bloggers Joshua Allen and John Scalzi. It has been perpetuated by the likes of Boing Boing, Wired, NPR, and many more. 

2'42" takes that statement to heart. Music written and/or recorded in cities around the world has been "corrected" to fit that "perfect pop song" length of 2:42. Each track is named after the city where its source material originated. 

2'42"

2'42" is an online series that reflects on the evolving nature of duration and form in this globalized new millennium. 

A claim has been made that 2 minutes and 42 seconds is the perfect length for a pop song. This statement has been circling the internet, independently initiated by bloggers Joshua Allen and John Scalzi. It has been perpetuated by the likes of Boing Boing, Wired, NPR, and many more. 

2'42" takes that statement to heart. Music written and/or recorded in cities around the world has been "corrected" to fit that "perfect pop song" length of 2:42. Each track is named after the city where its source material originated. 

2'42" Cologne

2'42" Damascus

2'42" Moscow

2'42" San Francisco

2'42" Seoul

By Daniel Corral 
2008

Performed by Erin Armstrong at the wulf.

Diasporic Music #2: Drum

Back (pt. 1)

A sort of threnody for 2016, which I made on Black Friday, thinking about Pauline Oliveros.

Goodbye, 2016

Trossingen Snorkel (demo)

Soul Can't Hang (DEMO 04 - 15 - 18)

A 2010 arrangement of the classic Bicol song for a puppetry piece about my grandparents meeting during World War 2, when the Philippines were occupied by Japan.

Si Nanay Si Tatay (2010 ARRANGEMENT for LOLO AND LOLA)

Polytope’s 15 tracks recall classic experimental electronic albums such as Terry Riley’s Shri Camel, Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, Laurie Spiegel’s The Expanding Universe, or Eliane Radigue’s Trilogie de la Mort. Sequenza 21 called Polytope “an extraordinary piece of musical and visual art… that is both accessible and compelling,” SF Gate hailed it as “a mesmerizing visual and musical spectacle,” and The Stranger described it as “gamelan from Pluto—or maybe ’70s Philip Glass as interpreted by Harry Partch on his Cloud-Chamber Bowls.”

Square 2

Requiem for György Ligeti is a 30″x30″x8″ walnut box with 100 music box movements inside it. All 100 of the music box movements began as one of 10 familiar tunes, such as Yesterday, A Whole New World, or Wagner’s Wedding March, but the mechanisms have been altered so that each individual movement is playing something unique and unrecognizable.

Requiem For Gyorgy LIgeti (2007)

Working some things out, playing with a 1-3-5-7 stellate hexany.

Stellate Hexany Study #1

Galopa Murrieta arrangement (ROUGH DEMO)

Harrington Creek 08-13-19

Stellated Djerassi Crickets

Dolphin Inn

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Daniel Corral is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Eagle River, Alaska. His music is a rich collusion of styles, constantly blurring the boundaries between the familiar and foreign, mirroring the diasporic evolution of cultural identity in the twenty-first century. Currently living in Los Angeles, his unique voice finds outlet in puppet operas, accordion orchestras, handmade music boxes, electronic collages, site-specific installations, chamber music, post-punk opera, and inter-disciplinary collaborations. 

Daniel Corral

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