52 to 40: It All Starts Here
So, yeah. I turned 39 last week. This sort of thing has an effect on a guy—the gem in my hand starts glowing (or is it stops glowing?) in twelve months. Fifty-two fucking weeks.
So, faced with this milestone, I figure it’s not enough that I decided to do an Ironman (in 204 days!) before my fortieth. Now I’m also attempting a Jonathan Coulton-inspired “Song a Week” project.
If you’re not familiar with Jonathan’s story, you’re probably not reading this or you’ve been in a coma/meditation retreat/sensory deprivation chamber for the past few years.
The idea is, as a cattleprod to my moribund musical output I’m forcing myself to write and record a new song each week and get it out by midnight (in Arizona) on Friday. All the tracks will be released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license (see the badge below for details) so you’re free to share copies with friends, make new stuff out of them, sample the bejeezus out of them, etc. Under the license, you’re required to give me attribution, and you shouldn’t try making money off them (are you paying attention Timbaland?)
More importantly, if you make something cool out of any of the songs uploaded, I’d love to hear about it. Hit me up at agillesp at gmail dot com.
I also intend to make the project file for each week’s track available for download, so if you’re using Propellerhead’s Record + Reason, you’ll be able to open up the song’s project files and get at raw tracks. With any luck, I’ll have the hosting and bandwidth for this part of things sorted out before next week’s track is released.
Anyway, here’s week one’s effort, “It All Starts Here”. I hope you like it:
This work by Art Gillespie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at artgillespie.bandcamp.com.
