The Big City

Recently I’ve been getting a bit disillusioned with spending loads of time trying to compose complicated tracks that I’m often tired of before they’re even finished. A couple of days ago I remembered something I once read about a writing course where the participants were encouraged to keep a journal and write in it every day. I thought I’d do the same thing with music.

I had a look and the tuneaday domains were mostly free or not being used, so I went ahead, snapped them up and made a site. It’s at tuneaday.org and the tracks are also available as a podcast at the iTunes store.

I’m hoping that having to come up with something new every day will push me towards being less concerned with fiddling and tweaking and will make me more spontaneous. The tunes might be recorded in my studio or just with my phone or on whatever I have to hand when I think of something.

I’m not going to use any old ideas, everything will be posted on the day that it’s recorded. If anyone is interested in collaborating with me on something, that would be interesting, but it’s all got to be new material, not a reworking of something you came up with ages ago.

I have no idea how long I’m going to be able to keep it up, it’s an intimidating prospect, but I’m aiming for some significant period like a hundred tracks, or a year, or something like that. If it gets too painful I’ll just make up a new target. We’ll see how it goes.