the classical music of now

January 19, 2016 6:35 AM

I hate myself, a 4 second song by Bill Wurtz

Bill Wurtz is a composer and video maker. Some of his best work:
Improv Lessons
I dont wanna go to school (full song)
"i'm crazy/its raining" (full song)
Monday Triva:
1, 2, 3, 4, ETC
Imaginary baking school
Harmonizing with the weather lady
Conversations with a pizza pie
Where do babies come from?
pick a card
I'm a loser
Plans for the future
Just wanna make longer videos
How to be cool
I write stupid music
See all everything on his website: Expert Mode.

posted by Potomac Avenue (12 comments total)

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posted by Potomac Avenue at 6:36 AM on January 19, 2016

I was expecting something in the style of The Music Spammer, but these are great!
posted by mccarty.tim at 6:54 AM on January 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

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posted by rodii at 8:45 AM on January 19, 2016 [2 favorites]

I have also written many sub-30 second songs, mostly not down in the 5 second range though. Here are some (sorry no fancy formattin'):
Miniature Cop
Pull On The Earth
Scars
Space Cow Moon Dog Woman
Maybe I'm Lying
Fortunate Failures (42 seconds, kind of extreme)
posted by rodii at 8:58 AM on January 19, 2016 [4 favorites]

I should have guessed that this is one that would almost make me laugh embarrassingly loud in my cubicle, and Fretzeldurmf finally did me in.
posted by HeroZero at 10:29 AM on January 19, 2016

Bill Wurtz is great! His style seems to be ad jingles about self loathing set to the visuals of '70s and '80s educational film bumper/scene change sequences.

Here are my favorites.

I'm a piece of garbage
Oh, hi, thanks for checking in...
posted by Spiced Out Calvin Coolidge at 10:44 AM on January 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

rodii those are awesome! you should put them on Mefi music!
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:15 AM on January 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

Ahhh, I love the speed of modern consumption/commitment. These are fantastic!
posted by carsonb at 11:51 AM on January 19, 2016

"I Hate Myself" was more like nine seconds.
posted by kenko at 12:39 PM on January 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

"The present day composers refuse to die."

-- Edgard Varèse, 1921

Maybe they just fade away, with compositions progressively shorter.
posted by fredludd at 2:20 PM on January 19, 2016

Feels great to be doin' stuff.
posted by solarion at 3:52 PM on January 19, 2016

This is really one of the most wonderful artists I've come across in some time. Thank you for posting this!
posted by Dokterrock at 1:06 AM on January 21, 2016