Last year I did the RPM Challenge and it was well worth the huge amount of energy I put into it. Not only did I get more familiar with the cheap recording gear I’d had sitting around all but unused for several years, but I learned a lot about the best way for me to go about the creative process.
I won’t be participating this year, due to my bi-weekly songwriting/recording goal for 2008, but if you’ve ever wondered about writing music, the RPM Challenge is great way to get a kick start at it with some great accountability and resources available only to RPM Challenge participants.
Do it. You won’t regret it. And because of the leap year you actually get a day more to do it than I did.
I’ve been too busy to post lately. RPM Challenge and side web projects were taking up all my spare time. But the RPM Challenge is over and I succeeded at writing and recording an album in the month of February! Its quality, however, is questionable. I’m proud of about two thirds of it. We’ll leave it at that.
More random musical-ish posts coming soon!
Lucky me, the opportunity to attend all three days of Coachella has risen and I have taken it! My boss, a coworker and his wife are all planning to go so I’ll be going along with them.
Completely unrelated, but the RPM Challenge starts today. My evenings will be spent holed up in my room writing and recording for the next 28 days.
Sorry for the posting hiatus. The music world tends to hibernate for the few weeks surrounding Christmas and New Years, but things are finally starting to pick up again (new Shins, Six Parts Seven, Deerhoof, Clinic, Of Montreal, Fujiya & Miyagi releases next week! Woo!).
The only thing I have to really discuss is the upcoming RPM Challenge 2007, where musicians all over the world unite with the common goal of recording an album during the 28 days of February. It’s a fun and supportive community. I’ve joined with my solo project, Saviors, which is/will be my instrumental post rock alter ego. We’ll see how that goes. I’m blogging my progress over there. It should be fun.
Oh, and one more fun little link: check out a couple Jimi Hendrix remixes. The Jimi/Jay-Z mashup Voodoo Problems is especially awesome.
