FAWM follow-up

April 21, 2010

So FAWM has been over for a month in a half, and I haven’t touched this blog. My original idea was to keep it updated as I continued to work on music, whether that is new songs, or editing the old ones. Well, the big sigh of relief after FAWM has turned a bit into [...]

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FAWM is over…

March 1, 2010

And we won!! 14 songs written in 28 days. You can visit my page here if you want to hear them. A lot of them are still very rough and need some major work, but the idea is there. I’ll be posting them to the site eventually, I just don’t have the willpower right now. [...]

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Just one day left – FAWM 2010

February 27, 2010

Well, with one day remaining, Josiah and I have a total of 12 songs in various degrees of completion. I think it is safe to say that we are each working on our last one, and that we’ll be able to actually complete this crazy thing! I think we’ll walk away with several to work [...]

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Dec. 2009 – Week 3

February 26, 2010

We both had very short songs this week. It was becoming more difficult as we continued to try and put stuff together in the midst of the ending semester and the holidays upon us. I do like them both. Ben – let us in Uke, ocarina, hand-claps, and humming. Needs some more verses I think. [...]

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Dec. 2009 – Week 2

February 24, 2010

Here are our songs from the second week of December. If you missed the first week’s songs and explanation, you can read it here. Josiah – Fishes One of my favorite songs from Josiah. Amazing hook with some sweet microkorg. Then it morphs and slides into a rolling soundscape of ambience and static. Great stuff. [...]

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FAWM – Two Songs

February 24, 2010

Here are some of the songs we’ve submitted so far with some brief notes. work Bad quality from over compression. Just some simple lo-fi indie-pop. Need to rerecord vocals. Uke and vocals by Ben. Drums and microkorg by Josiah, with his wife on harmony. come outside Vocals are painful (again) for me to hear myself. [...]

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Dec. 2009 – Week 1

February 24, 2010

So in December, my brother Josiah and I decided we would each write one song per week. This was on the heels of NaNoWriMo, which we both managed to complete successfully, and it was before we knew about FAWM. I thought I would go ahead and post the songs we did during that month. It [...]

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One week to go…

February 22, 2010

Well, we’re on the last week. I haven’t updated in a bit because I don’t have much to show for this past week. We decided to give ourselves a deadline, and each get 3 songs started and recorded by Sunday the 21st (yesterday.) We both missed the deadline… My brother said last night that he [...]

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