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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Record and Album in 29 Days

Here is a great opportunity for your students:


Take the RPM Challenge and record an album in 29 days.


Here is a summary of the challenge and last year's contest reported at Slashdot:

"The 2008 RPM Challenge — to write and record an original album in February, just because you can — is about to begin. Hundreds of musicians from around the world have already signed up. Last year, more than 850 albums were recorded as part of the challenge, a testament to what can be done by independent musicians without a label, without the RIAA, and often without a professional studio. The efforts ranged from an album made entirely on a Nintendo Game Boy to a Speed Racer rock opera, produced by both experienced bands and novice musicians, often in continent-spanning online collaborations. Last year's challenge generated one of the largest free jukeboxes of original music available online, built to stream on-demand all 8500-plus original, artist-owned songs. Imagine if grassroots, independent systems like this foretold the future of recorded music and its distribution."

1 comments:

Max said...

There's a very similar project called FAWM (February Album Writing Month), which you may already know about. Some people on Songfight do this.

http://www.fawm.org/

Songfight people are also prone to do entire albums in ONE DAY.

http://crapart.spacebar.org/aad/