RPM Challenge in February

The RPM Challenge is an event promoted by a magazine called "The Wire" in New Hampshire. They have done it for several years now. The basic idea is that you record ten songs or 35 minutes of music, commit it to a CD, and mail it to the magazine, all during the month of February. It's a fun way to get off the couch and produce something. I've done it twice, but missed out last year. More information here: http://rpmchallenge.com

This year the magazine was successful in getting the cosmos to add an extra day in February, so you now have 29 days to get the work done.

Prent Rodgers

If I understand well they want only pop songs, not experimental microtonal works of New music...

Daniel Forro

On Jan 18, 2012, at 7:54 AM, prentrodgers wrote:

> The RPM Challenge is an event promoted by a magazine called "The > Wire" in New Hampshire. They have done it for several years now. > The basic idea is that you record ten songs or 35 minutes of music, > commit it to a CD, and mail it to the magazine, all during the > month of February. It's a fun way to get off the couch and produce > something. I've done it twice, but missed out last year. More > information here: http://rpmchallenge.com
>
> This year the magazine was successful in getting the cosmos to add > an extra day in February, so you now have 29 days to get the work > done.
>
> Prent Rodgers

There is no requirement for style. And who cares if they don't listen to it, or like it. One of my pieces was used two years ago in a podcast they did. We're not going to get rich here. The idea is to start thinking album, like ten songs or 35 minutes. Kind of like Exotic Atoms by Chris Vaisvil here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2015

And who are you calling experimental. I never release my experiments. Those are on the cutting room floor :)

Prent Rodgers

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Forró <dan.for@...> wrote:
>
> If I understand well they want only pop songs, not experimental
> microtonal works of New music...
>
> Daniel Forro
>
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 7:54 AM, prentrodgers wrote:
>
> > The RPM Challenge is an event promoted by a magazine called "The
> > Wire" in New Hampshire. They have done it for several years now.
> > The basic idea is that you record ten songs or 35 minutes of music,
> > commit it to a CD, and mail it to the magazine, all during the
> > month of February. It's a fun way to get off the couch and produce
> > something. I've done it twice, but missed out last year. More
> > information here: http://rpmchallenge.com
> >
> > This year the magazine was successful in getting the cosmos to add
> > an extra day in February, so you now have 29 days to get the work
> > done.
> >
> > Prent Rodgers
>

If we compare pop songs and microtonal music, then of course the second one can be considered experimental :-)

Daniel Forro

On Jan 18, 2012, at 12:09 PM, prentrodgers wrote:

> There is no requirement for style. And who cares if they don't > listen to it, or like it. One of my pieces was used two years ago > in a podcast they did. We're not going to get rich here. The idea > is to start thinking album, like ten songs or 35 minutes. Kind of > like Exotic Atoms by Chris Vaisvil here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?> p=2015
>
> And who are you calling experimental. I never release my > experiments. Those are on the cutting room floor :)
>
> Prent Rodgers

HI Daniel,

I think that with some of the microtonal music being produced recently
(think Elaine Walker's new album, recent work by Iglisahon, Jacob Barton
and others) have trancended the level of "experiment" and have become
"expressive art".

And I think I can make an argument that a good portion of 12 equal pop
music isn't much more than craft and certainly not art.

Chris

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Daniel Forr� <dan.for@...> wrote:

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>
>
> If we compare pop songs and microtonal music, then of course the
> second one can be considered experimental :-)
>
> Daniel Forro
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 12:09 PM, prentrodgers wrote:
>
> > There is no requirement for style. And who cares if they don't
> > listen to it, or like it. One of my pieces was used two years ago
> > in a podcast they did. We're not going to get rich here. The idea
> > is to start thinking album, like ten songs or 35 minutes. Kind of
> > like Exotic Atoms by Chris Vaisvil here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?
> > p=2015
> >
> > And who are you calling experimental. I never release my
> > experiments. Those are on the cutting room floor :)
> >
> > Prent Rodgers
>
>
>

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Hi, Chris,

I think terms "experimental" and "expressive art" can meet and work
together easily. To me "experimental" is nothing pejorative, it means
more something like "unusual, uncommon, new, innovative, non-conform, original, sophisticated, elaborated, not accepted by masses..." in
wider sense.

From this point of view 95% of contemporary pop, rock, jazz, film or
incidental music isn't experimental. And any microtonal work is
experimental from the point of view of common listener :-)

Daniel Forro

On Jan 19, 2012, at 9:47 PM, Chris Vaisvil wrote:

> HI Daniel,
>
> I think that with some of the microtonal music being produced recently
> (think Elaine Walker's new album, recent work by Iglisahon, Jacob
> Barton
> and others) have trancended the level of "experiment" and have become
> "expressive art".
>
> And I think I can make an argument that a good portion of 12 equal pop
> music isn't much more than craft and certainly not art.
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Daniel Forró <dan.for@...> > wrote:
>
>> **
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>> If we compare pop songs and microtonal music, then of course the
>> second one can be considered experimental :-)
>>
>> Daniel Forro
>>
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2012, at 12:09 PM, prentrodgers wrote:
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>>> There is no requirement for style. And who cares if they don't
>>> listen to it, or like it. One of my pieces was used two years ago
>>> in a podcast they did. We're not going to get rich here. The idea
>>> is to start thinking album, like ten songs or 35 minutes. Kind of
>>> like Exotic Atoms by Chris Vaisvil here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?
>>> p=2015
>>>
>>> And who are you calling experimental. I never release my
>>> experiments. Those are on the cutting room floor :)
>>>
>>> Prent Rodgers
>>
>>
>>
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Oh! Where is it available?
Thanks,
Rick

On 1/19/2012 4:47 AM, Chris Vaisvil wrote:
> Elaine Walker's new album

everything Elaine

http://www.ziaspace.com/

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Rick McGowan <rick@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
> Oh! Where is it available?
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
> On 1/19/2012 4:47 AM, Chris Vaisvil wrote:
> > Elaine Walker's new album
>
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