Music
Songwriting, experimental music, etc.
Masters of Song Fu – Update #5 – The C5 Shuffle
Your challenge is to choose a famous inventor and craft a song proposing a “dance craze” based on either the inventor or one of his/her most well known inventions. Just finished mixing this non-submission to Song Fu. Here is a…
Masters of Song Fu – Update #4
The second round of Song Fu has begun and the next challenge has been set. As expected, I didn’t make it through to the next round, but I’m planning on following through with each of the challenges anyway. It focuses…
Re: Your Brains
I’ve just completed a couple of tracks (bass and guitar) for internet-based Jonathan Coulton covers band ‘The Mandelbrot Set’. Cover versions are something I generally steer clear of, mainly because I have little enough time to record my own music…
Masters of Song Fu – Update #3 – 100th Post!
Song Fu The final day of voting for round one is here, and I think I can safely say that it’s the end of the road for this song fu disciple as far as the official competition goes. I enjoyed…
Masters of Song Fu – Update #2 – First Impressions
After quite a bit of fiddling about I finished the new song last night, and it is now available for download at the Quick Stop voting page. Don’t forget to vote! The song is called First Impressions and is a…
Masters of Song Fu – Update #1
Bad planning. Here we are, two days left to the Song Fu deadline, and I’m away all week with work. South of the border with half a song. Over the weekend I worked out the music and lyrics, ably assisted…
The Song Fu Challenge
Fresh from creating a whole album in a day, the latest challenge I’ve undertaken is the ‘Masters of Song Fu’. Click the logo above for more information about the whole event, but in short it takes the form of a…
Lyrics Galore
To give a little more insight into the Board’s songs, the lyrics from all the songs in the first two albums are now available on the website. Simply click on a song name on either the Eponymous Debut page or…
Phew! Back to some state of normal.
I thought this blog would be very busy over the time we were putting together our 3-album release, but in fact the whole process has been so demanding of time that nothing has been posted here about the albums. So…
In the midst of an album-a-day
This just about marks the halfway point of the Album-a-Day project, “Difficult Second”, and I’m pleased to say we have an album’s worth of material. It is perhaps a little rougher around the edges than our usual fare, but such…