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Sid Smith 7/10/01

"Not sure if I told you before but I really enjoyed your site - the best of its kind really. That great mixture of enthusiasm, anorackery and fun."

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Michael Fisher's Online Diary: 3rd May 01

It's not at all unusual to find web sites devoted to a particular artist's music. However, it was demonstrated to me recently just how greatly the scope of a web site's focus can be narrowed. Last week I discovered a site (probably well known to many Crim-enthusiast readers) which is devoted to a very narrow subset of an artist's work. "The FraKctured Zone <http://www.frakctured.ukf.net/>" explores the history, analysis and musicological pedigree of exactly two Fripp-penned King Crimson pieces, 1974's "Fracture" and 2000's "Fractured"...in fact, just the Moto Perpetuo sections of those two pieces. Along with notation and tab transcriptions (in the old tuning as well as NST), there are various MIDI files and other recordings, and historical material on other Moto Perpetuo compositions from music history.

What's so remarkable to me is the breadth of material offered under the aegis of these two pieces. It's amazing what a truly obsessive mind can accomplish.

Interesting: MF has discovered The FraKCtured Zone <http://www.frakctured.ukf.net/>, which I found a few days ago.

More interesting: We hadn't heard of them, but they have a link to the sfbagc site from their links page.

Even more interesting: Right below the link to the sfbagc site, there's a link to a site for a band called Fractal. Said band is working on Crimson and Crimson-inspired music.

Even even even more interesting: Said band when contacted had never heard of us, and is interested in our Circle. The guitarist may attend the Saturday with Curt.

Even even even even more interesting: The contact and recordist for the band, Adrian Cockroft, is the author of a book of which I have both editions. Years ago (maybe 5) I saw him speak at the Computer Literacy Bookstore that is directly across the street from my current office.

We are likely to go for a visit to one of their rehearsals after the Curt Saturday. It is being arranged.