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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Sox on 30 Apr 2009, 15:08
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Is it really that time of year again already? Why yes, yes it is. It's time for the second annual 24 Hours May challenge! For those of you who already familiar with this, here's last years (incomplete) archive:
24 Hours, May 2008 (http://trespassersinthestereofield.blogspot.com/)
There's two albums missing, but they'll probably appear someday.
The goal is simple: You have 24 hours to make a record.
When you're comfortable, start the clock. You then have 24 hours to produce a record by any means neccessary. When you're done, you post it here. At the end of the month, all the entries get posted on a blogger archive of the event.
This time there are no restrictions. It can be as long or short as you want, you can include as many covers or samples as you wish. Throw up a remix album if that's how you swing.
Get those creative juices flowing! Edit: Unless you're kinda busy or stressed out, like me. Then you don't have to. The rest of you? I'll fucking cut you if you don't take part.
Update: Backstreet Boys tribute record currently stands at...
1) Sox - Larger Than Life
2) A_Pack_of_Wolves - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
3) October1983 - I Want It That Way
4) Christophe - Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
5) Dynamite Kid - As Long As You Love Me
6) Patrick - Don't Want You Back
7) Billiumbean - Shape Of My Heart
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fuck yeah!
i love this.
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Man, I've been waiting for this since april came around.
Exams end the 20th. I'm all over this.
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I will participate for sure!
Expect it to be amateurish to the max!
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expect one from me late may. and yes, i fully plan to do this. i've already mentioned to my friend were putting as much musical equipment as we can into his basement after finals.
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I don't know anyone with personal recording equipment. This is going to be very ghetto.
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For me, I'm going to have to convince someone to bring their mics and recording equipment over here, which could be tricky.
Hey, are we allowed to have other musicians playing in addition to us?
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Yeah, last year we had several bands and duets. Anything goes. There are no rules.
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I had a lot of fun with this last year. I ended up recording myself and my cousin with a single Rock Band mic via my computer. I think we're gonna use his recording equipment (he does freelance professional recording and wants more fidelity), but I say, don't let fidelity get in your way. I also want to try and meet the requirements that were used last year (at least 30 mins, all original), but only because I had so much fun writing new stuff last year.
I'm looking forward to hearing the submissions!
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I'm in again. Hell, I might even do it twice.
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Question: is it 24 hours to record an album, or 24 hours to write and record an album? Because I have a ton of songs that I have written which desperately need to be recorded, and I was wondering if those could count towards this (as long as they were all recorded within a 24 hour period).
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Aw shit yes.
Checklist for album:
Bunch o' guitars: check.
Bassist: check.
Drummer: check.
Keyboards: check.
Bag o' weed: check.
Hell yes, I am so ready for this. It might be around mid May, though.
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24 hours? I'm down. Possibly this weekend, even.
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Question: is it 24 hours to record an album, or 24 hours to write and record an album?
Write and record. The exception would be if you were to produce a covers album, but you'd still have to learn them.
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i'd be able to this if it was in June, as I'm still in school till then. I have enough of my guitar rig/drum programming/recording/mixing workflow down that if I do decide to do this, I could crank an album out over a weekend if I wanted to. Maybe if I am not super busy with schoolwork/workwork before the end of the month, I might surprise myself. Who knows. Probably not. But maybe.
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It can be under 30 minutes?
I've been working on some really Nadja-esque stuff lately..I'm in.
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I think I might actually make an album this year. I have a narrow window of opportunity, but it will be a nice way to celebrate finally being done with university.
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Where are you these days? Do you not love us anymore?
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Aw, you know I'll always love you. I've just been really busy trying to finally get my degree after all these years, and I went and got myself a girlfriend so I don't spend so many nights aimlessly on the internet as I used to. Also, I remember coming on here a while back and most of the discussions were either about things I did not care about (equipment and bands I find tedious) or seemed like conversations I'd seen here umpteen times before. It seems better this time around though.
However, I have a load of work to get done in the next few weeks and therefore procrastination shall drive me back into the forum's arms.
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I will attempt this at the end of May.
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I'm having trouble with equipment, I might not get this done in May, but I'll do my best.
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I might just do a record's worth of acoustic ambience. I only have a guitar and a lap-steel here, I can't do much else.
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One record from last year consisted mostly of recorded silence.
Does anybody reading still feel they have a good reason not to take part?
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Was that Linds'? I quite enjoyed it.
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It wasn't silence, it was badly recorded library noise (and a lecture?), but it pretty much sounded like nothing. I think I'd do something like that again if I ever get a decent microphone.
I have no equipment, just my laptop. Like last year. I will probably sit down on one of my off days and do this again. I was kind of sad I never got past 15 minutes on the last one, but I was silly and tried to do it during finals. No school to interfere now!
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shit! a pack of wolves, good to see you back man!
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Started at about 3:30 (Pacific time) today. Taking a break. This is hard.
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Okay, I'll get a bunch of people together.
WE RECORD NOW
EVERYTHING IS IN C
GO!
(or not)
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Okay. First attempt was not quite a success... I only knocked out 6 real songs in the 24 hours. If we're allowed to try again, I definitely will at a later point - I think it's a great exercise.
Without further ado, I present the mini-album that came out of this project. As you can probably tell, it's got a sort of sci-fi theme.
All instrumentals btw.
"Battle For Orion V"
1. Strange New Worlds...
2. The Agenda For Tonight's Meeting of Interstellar Horrors
3. Ruins of Dunsmuir
4. Rooftop Chase
5. The Needs of the Many
6. Battle for Orion V
7. Daybreak
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?ykgzao1fnyz
No art yet.
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Congrats on been the first to beat the challenge this year! I look forward to listening to this.
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Scarred, your album was like a sweet Deastro EP. Me likey. :-D
I want some artwork to go with it, as it's stayin' in mah library, and I'm anal about having artwork for all my albums.
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(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/phyrexianmeatdog/Thepianist.jpg)
This can be temp artwork if you like.
Glad you approve of the tunes, though!
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As soon as the KP3 comes in and I know how to use it, it will be on.
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My new M-Audio keyboard will be coming in 4 days, at which point I'll be figuring out more stuff on Ableton for a couple weeks so I can do an ambient-ish album in late May.
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Will participate when I find my voice. It will probably be one very long song. Is that cool?
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Anything goes.
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Looks like the date is set for my cousin and I to begin recording. Friday, May 15th. As an added bonus, we're also going to take video of the recording process and put it up on the Youtube. Hopefully it won't be boring as hell.
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Will participate when I find my voice. It will probably be one very long song. Is that cool?
I like the way you think, mister.
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I can post couple lyric or more here if it helps but i must warn they might be good or total crap.
i only need to figure out how i can get my creative engine going.
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Right, I'm starting this now.
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I'm doing this after all my assignments are in this month with a guy from my university. We are Small Town Gypsy Massacre.
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Might do this tomorrow. Expect a bunch of lovecraftian doom tunes, limited only by my lack of patience at programming drums.
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Right, I've finished with a few hours to spare. Don't reckon I've got another track in me. Sbe a bitort of a post-industrial/idm effort, maybe a bit more mainstream than my normal work, but on the other hand, maybe not.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/KharBevNor/WintermuteCover.jpg)
Track List:
1: Wintermute
2: Heterodyning
3: Spiral Factory
4: Blak Diamond Train
5: Cities of Refuge
6: Leviathan Dub
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?niywzno1jmq
Copy, paste, switch the !, you all know the score.
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This is rad.
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So I think I will do this like on the 23rd, or something. Write in 12 hours on Saturday, record in the other twelve on Sunday.
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The Backstreet Boys won the Deathpoll (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,23041.0.html).
Now who's down with recording a song for a Backstreet Boys cover album for this thing? You sign up, then we divide 24 by the number of people, that's how long you'll have to record it.
Get creative, do whatever you like to the cover. Just, make sure nobody else is already doing the same song. Post if you want in, I'll edit the list into the first post. Come on, let's make something ridiculous and awesome.
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I'd kind of like a crack at Everybody (Backstreet's Back), I probably won't be able to do it until much later in the month though.
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I think I want to do "Larger Than Life"
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I'd be up for doing I Want It That Way. Oh man this could be hideous.
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I'd be up for doing I Want It That Way. Oh man this could be hideous.
HIDEOUSLY AMAZING!
My keyboard came today, so now I need to figure out Ableton a wee bit better and then set a day aside to record. It might suck, but I'm okay with that. Gotta start somewhere.
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As long as we all are serious with our Quality Control, this is going to be nothing short of brilliant.
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I might have to rope in someone else to sing for the Backstreet Boys thing, we'll see how it goes.
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I did a horrendous fruityloops cover of I Want It That Way once. It was so bad.
I call Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely.
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As long as we all are serious with our Quality Control, this is going to be nothing short of brilliant.
Well, except for the ones made by musical incompetents such as myself. It will be the best version of Everybody I'm capable of producing though, you have my word on that.
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I'm going to give 'Backstreet's Back' a go.
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Three people have done this now. Read the first post. Your choice may have already been chosen.
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Can I have 'As Long As You Love Me'?
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My friends and I once turned "Quit Playing Games with My Heart" into "Quit Playing Games with My Mom." I will have to look at the two cds my mom has of theirs and maybe I'll do one. If and only if my ears don't bleed or fall off in the process.
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DARRYL I am hereby calling dibs on "Shape Of My Heart"
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Actually if I can switch to
"Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely" "Don't Want You Back" that would be awesome
I tried to go refresh my memory of "Shape Of My Heart" by listening on YouTube and basically the song has like 17 fucking chords aijersmrmgiosmreh yeah fuck that
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If it hasn't already been done we ought to consider a compilation once this is all done. We might have to finagle 3-6 minute songs out of some of the otherwise sprawling mixes some people will be making.
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We could make a megamix? Cross-fades and the like.
Mine will most likely be acoustic, so it should be a hidden track.
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Focus on the existing challenge, for now. A third of the way in and there's only two records? For shame.
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Well, except for the ones made by musical incompetents such as myself. It will be the best version of Everybody I'm capable of producing though, you have my word on that.
just do a really dirty lo-fi scremo cover, and it will be perfect.
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Focus on the existing challenge, for now. A third of the way in and there's only two records? For shame.
It's finals week genius
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yeah honestly may is one of the worst months you could pick to ask people to set aside a day to write an album.
oh well
also what backstreet boys song can best be converted into post-rock cause i might be able to do that one.
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Fuck you, "May" and "day" rhyme, you need to make your school suck less
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his school?
try EVERYONE'S GODDAMN SCHOOL
anyway. as usual i'll be able to do this on only the last two days of may. last year i tried and failed but got like three songs out of it? but that was in june anyway!
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I propose that this be moved/extended to June either this year or next year, as other have said, May is the WORST possible month for this due to student obligations ramping into anal destructive mode. I predict it would increase the number of contributions substantially.
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If it's finals now/nowish, what the hell do you kids do for the rest of school? Or was I the only one whose high school let out in mid-June?
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Most of may for most people is finishing up projects/last minute cramming/finals. Most schools end in late may/very early June, and leading up to that point is generally hellish. Point being, June is a FAR better month for most (student) people. Just change the title of the thread to 24 Hours, May/June 2009. Problem solved. :-D
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Also, double-post, but I really like Khar's album. It's got a great, very moody, very IDM/Ambient/Industrial feel to it. Nice work. :-)
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I was working on my thesis for college last time we did this and I managed to crank out 15 minutes. Granted, most of it was complete crap, but some of the songs I did I quite liked. (Meaning the actual songs I liked.)
I know May is horrible, but if it's horrible, don't commit to it. Try it some other month whenever you feel like.
Just sayin'.
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Well because of all that, last year it was extended to June.
Which rhymes with "afternoon".
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Bathroom? "Living room", too, if you say it right.
Laughter, you?
Raptor poo?
Kangaroo?
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I'm going to try to make my Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely cover sound like Bedhead.
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Oh, and I call "The Shape Of My Heart" since Patrick didn't want to do it.
This is the best idea this forum has ever come up with other than most other things this forum has come up with.
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Time is one of those things that people like to complain there isn't enough of, but really those people just suck at time management.
The thing is, almost everybody who cried for a month long extention last year didn't put out. So there isn't going to be one this year.
Every other rule for the (already very open to interpretation) challenge went out the window, the time frame stays. The reasons are arbitrary, but just as you would not celebrate Xmas in July, this challenge will not be moved forward a month. It is not intended for students who are too busy to take part. It is intended for people who will make the time no matter what.
May is the month of the challenge. This will not be changed.
24 hours is the maximum time allowed. Don't have 24 hours to spare? Do it in less.
When the challenge becomes malleable, it is no longer a challenge. This is the challenge. If you can't do it, it will not move to accomodate you.
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just do a really dirty lo-fi scremo cover, and it will be perfect.
This is most likely what will happen, since I can't do any other kind of singing anyway. My main worry is the drums, don't have access to a kit and I don't know how to do them on Reason or anything... yet. I'm thinking some passing the mic action a la Path Of Resistance or 'Three's A Party' might be necessary on this one too. Gang vocals are a definite whatever happens.
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Time is one of those things that people like to complain there isn't enough of, but really those people just suck at time management.
The thing is, almost everybody who cried for a month long extention last year didn't put out. So there isn't going to be one this year.
Every other rule for the (already very open to interpretation) challenge went out the window, the time frame stays. The reasons are arbitrary, but just as you would not celebrate Xmas in July, this challenge will not be moved forward a month. It is not intended for students who are too busy to take part. It is intended for people who will make the time no matter what.
May is the month of the challenge. This will not be changed.
24 hours is the maximum time allowed. Don't have 24 hours to spare? Do it in less.
When the challenge becomes malleable, it is no longer a challenge. This is the challenge. If you can't do it, it will not move to accomodate you.
Your attitude marks a disregard for the diversity of circumstances we find ourselves under and a willingness to paint with a too-broad brush (Here I was thinking my concern about finals was because it's the most important factor going into my semester grade, when in actuality I just wanted to abandon my QC forum commitments!), but let's leave that aside. This isn't just about time. Even the most creative people I know cannot write/paint/draw to their satisfaction under the kinds of pressure that finals bring. The pressure to perform on projects and tests blunts their creative impulses. Most of them have dropped out of / taken hiatus from school for that very reason, if they're intent on creating things for themselves. I'm not different. If you're going to ignore that then at the very least I'm going to ask you not to bitch when this ends and you've got mostly people who've done this before and have the kind of experience with writing and recording that makes this possible for them (Khar, Shane) or people who rush themselves and lack quality control (Linds, by her own admission) or people without life concerns. If you're looking just to those people to do this, say so in the first post of the thread, put it in big bold type and save yourself the effort of berating people when this is done. I'm not sure why this wasn't done in the first place. If I had known this was such a serious business I wouldn't have bothered getting into it.
Personally I'm going to be on Defcon 5 until at least the 15th. When you have to rile yourself up and get to a high-stress place to get what you need done in school oftentimes it sticks with you for awhile after the semester ends, like a near-death experience. If I have to make an album before that period of anxiety is over, I'm probably not going to do it. A challenge is good only if you're at a level of ability you're comfortable with, otherwise it's not fun, it's frustrating. You wouldn't expect a guy with a pulled hamstring to run a marathon.
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I'm going to be in a radio studio for nine hours on the 28th. I am going to be recording it.
Does this count?
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I feel like debating this issue is a waste of time. If you can't do it, don't? I wasn't under the impression there was an obligation to participate.
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Easy J-bug.
You seem to have made the assumption that I am expecting people to make records as a favour to me, that I want people to drop their committments and take part. I find this incredibly insulting. I have no expectations and only continued the challenge this year because people asked me to. It's stressful for me too and I have cancelled a LOT of projects I was very excited about*. The idea that I would berate people at the end of the challenge for not being up to scratch is ridiculous and it hurts me. Your accusations have left me genuinely upset. You talk like I am personally directing this challenge to a particular group of people who happen to be very busy right now, which is not the case. The open challenge is not directed at anybody, and if it was it would certainly not be directed at people too busy or stressed to do anything. Perhaps I should specify in big bold letters that it is not meant for people too busy to take part?
The reasons for this challenge, and its taking place in May are deeply personal to me. I'm not going to explain them because I shouldn't have to. I am not going to take part this year because I too am a full time student in the middle of finals. I too am under pressure to drop out. I, like many of your friends, have dropped out in the past for those very same reasons. I understand the stress and I understand where you're coming from. I appreciate that there are wildly talented and creative individuals that are too busy to take part in my dumb stupid challenge. Myself included. Y'know what?
Tough titties.
The challenge takes place in May. No compromise. It takes place in May because that is the challenge. The challenge is to make a record in May. Nobody is approaching busy students and holding them at gunpoint to make a record.
It began as a challenge I set myself. I liked the idea and found it curious enough that I shared it. People took the challenge and did something great. Some of them not even musicians. The people who took part did a wonderful thing, and their contributions stand as a testament to what they can achieve. I have a genuine admiration for those who did it, even the people who didn't complete it and share their work on the blog for the rest of us. People overcame so much to complete a record. People called up friends, regrouped old bands, learned new things, made the best of poor recording setups. People had a LOT of fun. So much fun that people requested it become an annual thing.
There's no set way to do things. There's no way music has to be. You don't need a studio, you don't even need a microphone. You don't need instruments and you don't need skill. You can do it. This challenge is about proving to yourself that you can.
You want to prove it to yourself but have finals? That's okay. You can prove it to yourself any time of the year. But this challenge is happening right now, and people who are able are already taking part. You want to do it in June instead? That's okay. You can do that. Nobody is telling you that you can't. You want that effort to be posted on a blog with the rest of the crop? Sure. I'll put it up there, it deserves to be heard. Is there going to be a month long extension? No.
*If you'd like to help lighten my load by taking care of/aiding the blog/archiving duties, I would be incredibly grateful, as I'm sure everyone else taking part would too.
Simon: It doesn't matter what the setup is or what the circumstances are, it always counts.
Edit: Whew, okay, power down. I'm always cranky if I miss my evening glass of milk.
KvP: We're good, we're okay. I know you meant nothing by it and only reacted because I acted like a dismissive dick. We're cool.
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his school?
try EVERYONE'S GODDAMN SCHOOL
You know I don't discriminate, Anna, I am not a bigot when it comes to denouncing the splendors of education
Darryl, I know I am not exactly the authority on posting, but the first two sentences of your letter said it all.
Guys, let's give Darryl a break. He's not trying to take over your entire lives. Everybody has enough stress with finals and everything (or, if that is not applicable, there's plenty of stress sources in just general life that are perfectly capable of ruining May for you), there's no need for internet drama to add up into it.
Let's just make some t00nz guys
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So, what did you guys think of my album?
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Whoa now. I didn't have time to make a good record because I was physically AT SCHOOL trying to do it between classes. That was my reason on actually not having enough time, because I picked a stupid day to do it on, which was my fault. But I still tried. I was stressed because of my thesis, yeah, but doing the album was an outlet, not a hindrance to my creativity. I wanted to do this, so I did it and it was a stress relief for me. If this is stressing you out, then do it some other time! I think everyone here will appreciate it just as much, even though it's not done during May. I know I will at least. This is just a thing for fun and a chance to push your creativity. That's really what everyone needs to remember. I love you both, so please don't tear each others hair out over this.
Khar, I am listening to it now! I will post a review when I am done!
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I just thought of something: if I put my chemistry notes to music, I can do this while studying for my exams. Would that be legal, even though my chemistry notes took a year to write?
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So, what did you guys think of my album?
I posted a small review further up the page if you missed it, Khar. :)
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They are your notes, so I don't see how that'd be illegal.
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But isn't it supposed to be done completely in the 24-hour period?
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The start to finish of recording, etc is to be done in 24 hours. You reading notes you've taken isn't going to break that rule.
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I just thought of something: if I put my chemistry notes to music, I can do this while studying for my exams. Would that be legal, even though my chemistry notes took a year to write?
That would sound rad. Especially if it was Battles or Hella-esque math rock.
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Yeah sorry guys I got a bit testy there and I apologize.
In other news, my microphone port doesn't seem to be working, so I might have to buy a new external sound card to record with the KP3. I've made a lot of progress with it though, I think I can make some halfway decent stuff with this thing.
Khar your album is rockin'.
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if i can rope a few mates in and get some recording gear together, i'll give this a go. it'll probably end up being a pretty short album (more like an EP) of four-chord punk, but fuck it, it'll be a laugh!
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you could not have a more perfect avatar to go with what you just said.
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So, what did you guys think of my album?
I've actually listened to "Heterodyning" and "Black Diamond Train" multiple times, and could see myself doing so again. They're quite good. The rest was a little too dissonant for me though... I'm not enough of an experimental hipster yet. :(
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Aw snap my acoustic is broken so this may have to be all electric, as much as I would like to have it be acoustic I don't think I will have repaired it by the end of May.
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No, it won't. All albums must be serious business.
Last year I read stuff from newspapers and made my guitars go "BUWWASSSHSHHNSFDJFHSJFHDHHF" in the background. Serious doesn't exist in my vocabulary. jens.
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Alright, Eric and I are starting at just after 12:00AM on May the 16th. We can't find the camera, so there'll be no video, unfortunately.
See you guys in 24 hours!
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Will be starting this coming Monday.
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Update: 3 hours in and we're about done with the songwriting. It's going to be a concept album about time travel, refrigerators and the like...
This should be pretty entertaining if we can pull it off on the recording...
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Me and one of my uni buddies are doing two twelve-hour sessions, at 11-11 on Monday and then Tuesday.
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Well, it looks like nobody else feels like playing the Backstreet Boys, so you guys have three hours and 25 minutes each, by my workin' out.
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Alright. We took a small break at 6AM, but now have an acoustic base laid down over our scratch tracks. Eric is now laying down the drum line using the freestyle mode of Rock Band 2. The 360 is input directly into the M-Box and that's where the drums come from. After that, we'll lay down bass and other instruments and finish with vocals. Still no video, but we found a still camera and there'll be some pic available of the process. Over halfway through our alloted time and going strong!
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Darryl, if NSYNC would have won, I would do several songs for you. Just. Can't. Handle. BSB. Without. Stabbing. Things.
Also, are covers frowned upon? Like, purely vocal covers? As in me singing both melody and harmony and then making sounds to imply instruments? Not that my singing is spectacular, but I have no instruments (that work) other than my vocal chords.
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Anything goes.
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Darryl, if NSYNC would have won, I would do several songs for you. Just. Can't. Handle. BSB. Without. Stabbing. Things.
Also, are covers frowned upon? Like, purely vocal covers? As in me singing both melody and harmony and then making sounds to imply instruments? Not that my singing is spectacular, but I have no instruments (that work) other than my vocal chords.
I agree entirely on the N*Sync > BSB thing, and as far as I understand the rules, ANYTHING GOES. You could record bowel movements and it'd still count.
Also, a Capella albums are AWESOME, do it do it do it do it do itttttt
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The external sound card came today, and I am finally able to record!
Behold, what is to come (http://www.mediafire.com/?zkmmdzihan1).
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Holy Shit! We finished things up at around 11:30PM, and I just got home to compress the files and upload them.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Barnett is proud to present: Paradox!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3598/3537728922_7c9db8a6f7.jpg)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ozwzd2cn5mm/Paradox.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/file/ozwzd2cn5mm/Paradox.rar)
Paradox by Barnett
1. William S. Horvath, Time Machine Man
2. $crilla fo' Rilla
3. Who's Got Two Thumbs and Hates His Job? This Guy.
4. The Future Mrs. Horvath
5. Curses, Foiled Again (Applesauce ex Machina)
6. What if I'd Never Been Born.
We had an amazing time doing this album. It was a lot of work, but we think it was well worth it. Enjoy!
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that is really great, both of you. I think you topped what you guys did last year.
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Thanks, man. We didn't quite get to 30 mintues like I wanted to, but we worked really hard on what we did. I never knew I could rap. ;-)
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I agree entirely on the N*Sync > BSB thing, and as far as I understand the rules, ANYTHING GOES. You could record bowel movements and it'd still count.
Also, a Capella albums are AWESOME, do it do it do it do it do itttttt
I shall. And there will be an NSYNC song. Oh man. Maybe it'll all be 90s pop songs. Oooo. Yeah, I am so doing this day off later this week.
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I might make an album that's just a random mix of songs. Some crazy boop-boops from my keyboard, then a piano cover, then a lovely composition, then some finger drumming on various surfaces in my room, then an Nsync song for Linds...
I have a day off on Thursday! I think I will try to do this then!
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Gonna start work on this right now. I should be done in less than an hour's work. I'm probably just going to sing simple productions of Patrick-ized versions of some songs I've had to sing for my show. I'll also do covers of a few of my favorite songs by various artists. Expect something in a few hours.
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Album.
Wow my mind is... just wow... this is like real music...
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Your link doesn't work. Like, I switch ! to i and it leads to a wiki page.
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Works fine for me.
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Paul, are you going to record an album? Please do.
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Originality is not my thing, so I can't imagine what I'd produce; but more to the point, all my stuff is piled in boxes and the piano is on it's side while the house is being redecorated. If I even think of doing this for some possibly private fun, it won't be in May.
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Works now! I don't really know why it directed me to a wiki page before.
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Due to time constraints, my partner in crime and I are recording this over several days but we did our first six hours today and we already have the minimum time limit. Also, today we bought a mini accordion and have every intent to use it. Things are good. We have at least one legit, real song, plus some comedy wankery which will make up the majority of what will undoubtedly be an opus.
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My attempt got fucked by the need to sleep. Damn ittttttttttttt I only have like 11 minutes' worth of shit. Damn my perfectionist streak.
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Okay, I'm going to start this in an hour or so. Hopefully it'll be something that, at the very least, I'll enjoy.
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I have a question: Last week we worte and recorded an album. Except that we failed to record it. Meaning that we played it, while the recorder was set to "record", we just forgot to activate the line-in channels. Sadly, we only realized that when it was already to late to do it again. Are we allowed to record it again, or would that be against the rules?
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Starting my BSB cover now. It will be a warmup for when I actually do the full album.
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BSB Cover finished. Will upload momentarily.
http://www.box.net/shared/jaqdliix74
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I'm going to do this. I am going to get new needles for those 1200s, I'm going to sample the @#$% out of some old Jazz, Soul, Ambient, Reggae, and some Hip-Hop, and rap over it.
This will be awwwwwesoooooooooooome.
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I have a question: Last week we worte and recorded an album. Except that we failed to record it. Meaning that we played it, while the recorder was set to "record", we just forgot to activate the line-in channels. Sadly, we only realized that when it was already to late to do it again. Are we allowed to record it again, or would that be against the rules?
Message relayed from Sox because he has put educational constraints on himself:
Do whatever you want.
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I'm going to do this. I am going to get new needles for those 1200s, I'm going to sample the @#$% out of some old Jazz, Soul, Ambient, Reggae, and some Hip-Hop, and rap over it.
This will be awwwwwesoooooooooooome.
REALLY really REALLY excited by your idea
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We've recorded in the region of 30mins' worth now. Today alone we managed to knock out four complete songs, as in with lyrics and everything. This we did not expect. We've kind of changed our angle a bit, everything's going to be recorded live with just the two of us. We still have two days of production left too.
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Must be quite a different thing doing 4 x 6 hours (or 6 x 4 or whatever) compared to however many you can manage within one 24 hour period.
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Originally we were going to do the 24 hours thing, but we had other commitments, so we're doing it in different times.
To be fair, we reached the 20 minute time limit yesterday in just the six hours. We thought we lost everything we did yesterday but it turns out we didn't; we're leaving half of it off anyway because the album evolved into something else today. But I might put up two albums - the finished album and the 'deluxe edition bonus disc' with all the outtakes we don't use on it.
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I think breaking up the 24-hour limit into chunks would actually be beneficial. I might do it too-start off with an hour and a half of drum tracks, then actual songwriting...
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Yeah, not being critical of it, just thinking out loud... you're basically guaranteed much better results and a more chilled out time of it.
Trying to get something done in a given 24 hour period means you can't spend 24 hours on the music, for a start... although if you don't sleep, eat, fap, poo, etc. it could be pretty exciting to hear the results. :lol:
Also you've got much less opportunity to reflect on what you're doing, nut your way out of apparent impasses, take a break when you're fucking over it, etc.
I'm thinking I'll give the 24 hours real time version a go, because it's the constraints of that particular challenge that sound like the most fun to me. It'll have to be the last weekend of the month if I do it.
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Crap, I've snapped my high e string, but I have plans for sunday with a friend to do this. We're booking the student radio station's recording studio, because neither of us has a mic. Yay plans. I am bringing in everything that might be an instrument.
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I'm going to do this. I am going to get new needles for those 1200s, I'm going to sample the @#$% out of some old Jazz, Soul, Ambient, Reggae, and some Hip-Hop, and rap over it.
This will be awwwwwesoooooooooooome.
REALLY really REALLY excited by your idea
Whoo, thanks Sox. I'm also going to get my sister, my fiance' and hopefully one of my favorite singers from UWI's Pop Society to vocalize on tracks. I also expect there to be a "Through The Wire"- Kanye West style music video. Also, my brother plays the drums, and my fiance' plays the piano, so I'll see if I can them to do something cool, and make good use of my makeshift studio at home.
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message relayed from Sox because he has put educational constraints on himself:
Do whatever you want.
ooooooh yeah
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I also expect there to be a "Through The Wire"- Kanye West style music video.
I hate overachievers
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I love you too, Pat.
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So hopefully I'llbe able to upload my drone album soon, audacity keeps crashing when I edit the last track. Maybe it's too heavy
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I do believe it is on, you cunting bitches.
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Jovian - Storms
(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5475/night2o.jpg) (http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=night2o.jpg)
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?1wajsnia0px
This is some drone I did on my bass with some effects pedals. It's kinda Sunn O))) -ish and it was fun to make. I'm not happy with the recording quality, there's a hiss in each recording, just think of it as rain. Yeah, be patient too.
Tracklist
1. The Storms Across The Hilltops
2. Standing Under Thunder
3. The Clouds, Like Cathedral Bells
4. As We Reached The Summit, The Heavens Shouted
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Not to be nitpicky, but would you mind posting the cover art in a larger resolution and more square-ish shape? If not, that's fine too. About to give the album a listen, I'll tell you what I think of it. I love ambient and drone, so expect positive things.
EDIT: I notice that the album art is included in the zip in high res, so nix the previous request. However, the third and fourth songs will not unzip from the package; a message shows up saying the files are corrupt. You may need to reupload the album.
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Our album is finished. It's almost all-acoustic, all live takes, with a couple of skits on it. I'm actually really proud of what we've come up with, a lot of these songs may make it into our regular rotation with the band we formed a while back (with a third member who couldn't make it). I'm also surprised at how MUCH we've come up with. It's amazing what can happen when you stop trying to write good stuff and just let whatever come out.
We're going to do the Backstreet Boys song tomorrow and include it as a bonus track (plus possibly some outtakes).
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I did a song, listened to it, and had a resounding "NO" ring through my head. So I am going to come up with a different idea. Keeping the covers theme, just need to do them in a different way.
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Not to be nitpicky, but would you mind posting the cover art in a larger resolution and more square-ish shape? If not, that's fine too. About to give the album a listen, I'll tell you what I think of it. I love ambient and drone, so expect positive things.
EDIT: I notice that the album art is included in the zip in high res, so nix the previous request. However, the third and fourth songs will not unzip from the package; a message shows up saying the files are corrupt. You may need to reupload the album.
I downloaded it from MF and it worked fine for me. For the artwork, I let imageshack resize it cause it was way to big to post. Oh and it's my own photo btw.
EDIT: urg there does seem to be a problem with the last track playing, but it unziped fine. Plus I hear how different the tracks sound, god I wish I had some better equipment. I'll see what I can do about that track this weekend. buh i hate it when my school crams whole classes into a month.
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I did a song, listened to it, and had a resounding "NO" ring through my head. So I am going to come up with a different idea. Keeping the covers theme, just need to do them in a different way.
black metal!
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Logic Is For Zombies - Sleep Deprivation For Beginners
(http://kuemmi.ch/cover.jpg)
http://www.mediafire.com/?nymjdn3jwti
Wrote, recorded and edited this with a friend in the last 24 hours. We didn't record as many songs as we wanted, so this is more like an EP.
Tracks:
1. Grumpy
2. First-Aid Kit
3. Duck Pond Lullaby (With Cookies)
4. Bongo Pirates
5. Getting Out
6. Godzilla And Madonna
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I think we ought to do a name fad. You know, like how there's a bunch of "Crystal" bands and "Wolf" bands and "Shit" bands.
Our common word shall be "Cube". My project shall be called "ShitCube".
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I'll be "Holy! Black! Crystal! Wolf! Cube!" and I'll get all pissy if you leave out the punctuation.
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Logic Is For Zombies - Sleep Deprivation For Beginners
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?nymjdn3jwti
Wrote, recorded and edited this with a friend in the last 24 hours. We didn't record as many songs as we wanted, so this is more like an EP.
Tracks:
1. Grumpy
2. First-Aid Kit
3. Duck Pond Lullaby (With Cookies)
4. Bongo Pirates
5. Getting Out
6. Godzilla And Madonna
This is dang good, real talk.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/DynamiteKid156/FrontCover.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/DynamiteKid156/BackCover.jpg)
http://www.mediaf!re.com/folder/ae263da827d2014cd956df2962098fcb6e803997e84da007c95965eaa7bc68bc
Presenting: Alf Ramsey's Porn Dungeon by Small Town Gypsy Massacre
1. Wanktro
2. Morning Bereavement
3. We're Sorry
4. Ain't It Funny
5. Love Note
6. Homicidal Blues
7. Bioshlong
8. Shit In The Fan
9. It's A Rainy Day In Preston
10. Sanchez feat. Christoph Mayer
11. I'm Already Gone
12. Deliverance
I apologise in advance for the weight of in-jokes on here which only my fellow university students will get, plus the relentless references to Chris Morris, Garth Marenghi and Bioshock. Have fun.
I am impressed with myself and my collaborator at how well this turned out given it was less than 24 hours record time over a period of five days. It was pretty awesome. 'I'm Already Gone' is without doubt among the finest stuff he or I have ever written, and we both agree we've never written anything as good collaboratively. I'd say that at least five or six of these songs could make it into regular rotation.
(BTW, the Backstreet Boys cover is forthcoming. It's terrible... but it is forthcoming).
ENJOY!
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The perfect day to do this, and my mic is broken. :|
Is a CD of classical piano written on fruityloops passable?
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I am going to attempt to set up my recording software. If I can get it functioning, then Tonight's the Night doggs.
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EDIT: Never mind, I am technologically unfortunate, and I can not keep up enough material in a day to make an album.
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So has anyone listened to my record yet?
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I have used up approximately 4 1/2 hours of my time and I have completed around 2 songs. I hope to get this all wrapped up by the end of the month.
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So I just found out I cannot do this this year.
damnit!
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Logic Is For Zombies - Sleep Deprivation For Beginners
This is really good.
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Anyone listen to my record yet?
BTW here's my BSB cover, and a *cough* remix of it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?zj1dmz5drwj
http://www.mediafire.com/?gzwbntallzn
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I would if you'd winzip it into one folder.
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seconded
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Just found out about this now, and am going to break the rules and do it on June 1st.
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Fine, here it is, ya bunch o' babies!
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ae263da827d2014cd956df2962098fcb57a80d8e3d1360a5ce018c8114394287
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OK, starting this belatedly.
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hey, nice stuff, DK! i'm only about halfway through right now but so far i like it. it will definitely find a place on my iPod.
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OK, 20 hours pretty much non-stop and I am shattered. Got just over 30 minutes worth of music. Will sort it out...
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hey, nice stuff, DK! i'm only about halfway through right now but so far i like it. it will definitely find a place on my iPod.
Mercis beaucoup.
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(http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/1625/fishd.th.jpg) (http://img39.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fishd.jpg)
Forgot to put cover art in my zip, but click the above image for bigger version and stuff...
6 tracks of mellow instrumental stuff made with my computer, clocking in at just over 30 minutes in total:
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?sharekey=696bec49e6d088fd7f7ec40ada4772a6e04e75f6e8ebb871
1. Mèna (12° 13' 0" N, 6° 12' 0" W)
2. Sobo (3° 30' 0" S, 119° 38' 0" E)
3. Litzldorf (46° 54' 0" N, 13° 16' 0" E)
4. Buenavista (28° 54' 0" N, 107° 34' 0" W)
5. Cabare (19° 47' 0" N, 72° 35' 0" W)
6. Ban Kra Ta Un (13° 56' 0" N, 101° 9' 0" E)
The crazy titles are due to the rules I made for myself:
1. Go to Maplandia (http://www.maplandia.com) and choose the first "Random location" at the bottom of the page.
2. Your track's key is the first letter of the place name that's between A and G. If there are no letters between A and G you lose. Back to step 1. If the number of letters is even, it's a major. If not, minor. If the name ends in a vowel, modulate to the second letter that's between A and G at some point. If there's only one letter between A and G, don't modulate. If the second key letter's earlier in the alphabet than the first, it's major. If not, minor.
3. The latitude numbers are to be read as a sequence of semitone intervals that you must work through at least once in yr track. i.e. 4 means move 4 semitones from the note before. Pick the starting note and direction (up or down) to get the thing to fit the key. Zero is a wildcard, choose whatever sounds best. Repeating notes and shifting octaves are fine.
4. Same again for longitude. You can put this sequence of notes before or after the latitude one, have it as a separate thing, or whatever.
5. Search the place name on Youtube. If no results, search the next bit in the geographical location on maplandia until you get a hit, e.g. Ergourdi's geographical location is "Abeche, Ouaddai, Chad, Africa". So search "Ergourdi", if no results then search "Abeche", then "Ouaddai", etc.
6. When you have a result, download the first video. You must use at least one sound from the video in your track.
7. Sampling music is not allowed, excluding any found in the above vid. This includes drum sounds - make / record some if you need percussion.
I broke my own rules once - I forgot to modulate 'Mèna' and by the time I'd realised I couldn't be fucked going back. :p
Also, the Youtube search rule turned out funny - the last track is the only one where the result I got was actually related to the place. You can imagine what "Buenavista" brought up.
If I had more time I'd certainly make a lot of changes, particularly when it comes to structuring things out, but then to be honest, I'd probably ditch half of the tracks.
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Logic Is For Zombies - Sleep Deprivation For Beginners
Are you Mark Edwards?
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Getting through this. Right now I'm about 9 hours through my 24 and I've got 5 songs, only totalling about 15 minutes or so. Progress is being made.
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I'm 6 hours in, and I have 21 minutes, but I am completely burned out and have tons of homework so I think this is all I will get.
(http://thumbnails15.imagebam.com/3749/2fe19c37489229.gif)
Alex Pinkus- MAYbe This Will Work
http://www.mediafire.com/?titmd53zt3z
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Due to technical problems, I will not be able to finish this for May. I will finish it and post it, however, but it will be in early June.
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"Battle For Orion V"
1. Strange New Worlds...
2. The Agenda For Tonight's Meeting of Interstellar Horrors
3. Ruins of Dunsmuir
4. Rooftop Chase
5. The Needs of the Many
6. Battle for Orion V
7. Daybreak
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?ykgzao1fnyz
No art yet.
Listening to this for the third time now.
Also really loved this one:
Paradox by Barnett
1. William S. Horvath, Time Machine Man
2. $crilla fo' Rilla
3. Who's Got Two Thumbs and Hates His Job? This Guy.
4. The Future Mrs. Horvath
5. Curses, Foiled Again (Applesauce ex Machina)
6. What if I'd Never Been Born.
Logic Is For Zombies - Sleep Deprivation For Beginners
Are you Mark Edwards?
We are not :-D (I'm kuemmi's co-musician)
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You two have his writing style and vocal delivery down to a tee. This is a good thing, My Dad Is Dead put out some fantastic records, some of which are available for free on his website.
I recommend this one:
http://www.mydadisdead.com/music/taller/
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Ok, so I didn't get to do what I wanted. Feh. Maybe next year/month/something.
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So, my band recorded an EP earlier this month, but the our drummer thought he lost the tapes, so we just finished mixing (well, what we could mix with shitty software anyway) today....would I be violating the rules if I uploaded it now?
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Just like last year (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,20035.msg669236.html#msg669236), I made two albums. The first one was finished by mid-may, but I didn't upload it until today...I'm just too lazy!! (And I hate myself for being an overachiever - again!!).
Fluxliner - "Private Eye"
(http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7868/privateeyefrontcovervsm.jpg)
1. Godhack
2. A Final Warning From The Preposterous Parasite Department
3. My Aim is Questionable
4. La petite fail de la pwn
5. Circles Within Merkel's
6. Shine On You Demented Pollutant Beast
7. The Sound Of Fail
8. Even On The Quietest Planets
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?tytmnd22l2z
Total length: 40:29
Recorded on May 13-14, 2009
Fluxliner - "AutoFAIL"
(http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/6097/autofail.jpg)
1. Failrunner Blues
2. Bursting Through The Kuiper Belt
3. A Little Fail (cannot hurt me now)
4. Ownage Imminent
5. Somebody fail me in
6. Booby Traps Of Pwn
7. Ai no Ilsenburg
8. Memories of Win
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?ylmfli3btij
Total length: 34:42, worstcoverart-edition
Recorded on May 30-31, 2009
Both albums are 99,999 % instrumental.
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I've downloaded all of the albums that look like they were finished in May, and I'm going to spend the next week or two giving them a listen. Not that my opinion matters, but I'll give a rundown of what I think once I wrapped up the listening session. Looks like a good bunch this year. :mrgreen:
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Screw it, I'm going to put it up anyway. We recorded this very quickly on a Sunday two weeks ago. The vocals aren't very high in the mix since the mic was so shitty, and we did our best to fix it but eh, what'cha gonna' do? We made some copies to give to friends which our drummer thought he lost, but he found them yesterday so hoorah!
Album Art:
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/ParanoidAndroid100/TVEyeArt.jpg)
T.V. Eye EP - T.V. Eye
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?sharekey=4fd27042c953e7151bee9a6e9edd9c7661bffb74958a2dfece018c8114394287
Tracklist:
1. Suggestion (Fugazi Cover)
2. To Live Lost of Mind
3. Minor Operation
4. Decisions
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I sincerely hope you guys are named after the awesome Stooges song.
Because dude, Funhouse.
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We are! And yes, Funhouse is one of the best albums ever.
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Fluxliner: I really dig "Even on the Quietest Planets."
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You two have his writing style and vocal delivery down to a tee. This is a good thing, My Dad Is Dead put out some fantastic records, some of which are available for free on his website.
I recommend this one:
http://www.mydadisdead.com/music/taller/
Listening to the album right now. I like what I hear, but I have to admit that so far I (sadly) don't really see big similarities. Anyhow, if you like our stuff I'd be glad to shamelessly promote ourselves and post some more songs.
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I'm SO PISSED I didn't have any recording medium on Saturday night, because god damn it, getting blazed with my buddy and basically making up 10 pretty incredible songs right there on the spot in PERFECT SUCCESSION would've made for a great entry. We seriously rocked out for 2 hours, without a single repeat.
SO PISSED.
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Just found out about this now, and am going to break the rules and do it on June 1st.
Looking more like sometime this week. There are so many things wrong with my body and my car right now.
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Here 'tis. 24 hours is up and I've got my album.
KviP / Laserfag - Pitch Model
(No cover because I don't have a working Photochop. Does somebody want to make up an album cover? Anything will do)
Basically I divided up my music into composed Reason songs (KviP) and Noise remixes of songs I made with the Kaoss Pad (Laserfag).
Song titles were conceived in dreams. All in all I'd probably compare it to early Black Dog / Plaid, only not as good. I don't know if the mixing I did was any good, let me know if you notice anything muddy and / or too quiet and / or too loud.
(KviP)
1.Liverpool FC
2. Balsamic
3. White Glass
4. A Cloud
5. Bentham Paranormal
6. Mishall
7. Shipwreck
8. Diskette
9. Unsync
10. Pitch Model
(Laserfag)
11. Recognizing Your Privilege
12. Gotway
13. Well 'Ard (Laserfag Perspired Edit)
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?gmkz02yhdzh[/quote]
*edit - I'm told by Rob that track 4 is a tad quiet, so I've run it through Audacity and amp'd it a bit. Here's the retouched song.
http://www.mediafire.com/?fjakdui3nyr
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so can this thing be extended past May? I am almost done with school save for final exams, and I would love to rock everyone's sock's off once I have enough time...
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KviP / Laserfag - Pitch Model
Diskette and A Cloud rule. Nice one.