My written posts got longer and longer over the years and so did my music. The name Thirty Second Spots seemed fine up to around 2 minutes. Then I invented the name Three Minute Climaxes (pieces from 2 up to 8 minutes) and finally Ten Minute Breaks (so far the longest one is 12 minutes.)
These categories are fluid and largely pointless so of course I still adhere to them only when I feel like it.
Online storage space was a problem at first. Most early pieces disappeared. Eventually I found more room. I started uploading historical live performances which document my pre-blog activities (roughly 1975 through 1995). Within the last year or so I've started posting my recordings with the Peter Schmid Quartet and my very long day-to-day calendar pieces, The Seasons. (Expect a new one next week.)
AND NOW ... there's a new feature to make finding and playing all those recordings much easier.
Near the top of the right hand column of Mixed Meters you'll see a box marked Listen To Music. There are six options, each of which will open a page of links. Each link has a [listen] button (a new window will open and the piece will play automatically) and a [read] button (a new window with the relevant MM post will open). The Video option takes you directly to a YouTube playlist.
I'm hoping that you, my three dear readers, will find this addition helpful for exploring my music. I'll be posting more music in the future and will update the links pages as I do.
About Timings
At first, all the Thirty Second Spots were less than a minute long. I would list the length in seconds along with the copyright notice. When a piece broke the 1-minute barrier I thought it would be cute to list the total number of seconds rather than use minutes and seconds. After all, "64 seconds" is no more confusing than "1 minute, 4 seconds".
But I didn't know when to quit. I've listed the lengths of nearly all pieces as a total number of seconds - no minutes, no hours. For example I recently uploaded the recording of Vexations. You might think that it's over 6 hours long - but I say it is really 23,085 seconds!
Here is a breakdown as of today of all my musical categories with total timings.
| Category | Number of Pieces | Total Time in seconds |
| 30 Second Spots | 34 | 1,887 |
| 3 Minute Climaxes | 15 | 3,900 |
| 10 Minute Breaks | 4 | 2,537 |
| Videos | 21 | 3,576 |
| The Seasons etc. | 9 | 11,307 |
| Peter Schmid | 5 | 1,973 |
| Historical Performances | 14 | 8,175 |
| Vexations | 1 | 23,085 |
That's a grand total of 55,393 seconds. (Because there are a few pieces listed in two categories, the total is not an exact sum of column three.)
Do you wonder how long 55,393 seconds is in hours and minutes? Well, go ahead, do the math.
Another post from the first day: In Which David Rewrites The Pledge of Allegiance. (114 words)
30 Second Tags: 30 Second Spots. . . David Ocker's music. . . Mixed Meters is seven
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