April 7, 2011

The 8 Hour Album

http://www.berklee.edu/news/3311/rethink-music-ben-folds-damian-kulash-amanda-pal

Ben Folds among many others (Ok Go and Dresden Dolls appearances!?) are sticking it to the man by writing 8 songs in 8 hours, then releasing it soon after. This will be a true test to them as musicians and creative artists, and to the audio engineers running the session. To record a song an hour can be a challenge, but it the session runs smoothly, this can turn out to be something else.

The best thing? YOU CAN WATCH IT ALL LIVE. It all goes down 4/25 from 4p-midnight EST, and will be broadcast live at http://www.rethink-music.com/. You're gonna want to bookmark this, because this is going to be something else. What do you think about this?

25 comments:

  1. I'm actually disappointed I'm gonna miss it. I live in Europe so these hours are kinda impossible. I hardly have time in the evening anyway.

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  2. You've gotta be pretty creative to be able to do that.

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  3. Woah... that's sweet. I have a great song someone made in a day, but eight in eight hours? Crazy.

    Thanks for pointing this out. I'll definitely be following.

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  4. should be interesting. Months in a studio compared to 8 straight hours....will show their true musical talent if they can come up with good tunes in that short amount of time

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  5. I'm not even sure how they're gonna manage that. That sounds so ridiculous. Might have to check this out and see how they do.

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  6. woah thats crazy and in an hour time frame

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  7. Awesome, Ben Folds is an absolute legend.

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  8. WTH?!? Ben folds is my hero!

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  9. 8 hours long...that's crazy, how do you even listen for that long.

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  10. I love so much the dresden dolls I have to check this !

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  11. Would love to see the dresden dolls do this! thanks for the heads up

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  12. That's crazy. Who would watch that?

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  13. You'd need to be a big fan to sit through 8 hours! Still, I appreciate the idea behind it!

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  14. i dont think one will watch whole 8 hours.... flwd

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