An artist documenting album creation start to finish?

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Hey all,

A bit of a theoretical question for you--if a musician were to set up a project in which they were going to document the process of creating an album from start to release and make it all available on a website, free to access, what all would you want?

Video? Sound clips? Lyric drafts? What kind of freebies would interest you along the way? How interactive would you want it to be? If you wanted it to be interactive at all, what would you want? What kind of live streams might interest you? How biographical would you want it to be? What about the person and their life while they are creating would interest you?

I'm also open to why you think this is a terrible idea in part or whole.

[hubb]

Mystique and secresy is pretty central to the best music in our throat of the forrest.

I'd rather prefer to convince myself that the person I listen to was a weird hermit wizard than a kinder garden teacher... but thats probably just me trying to say it in an 'necessarily' harsh way

[nowaysj]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn8qlk ... 1968_music

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Mystique and secresy is pretty central to the best music in our throat of the forrest.

I'd rather prefer to convince myself that the person I listen to was a weird hermit wizard than a kinder garden teacher... but thats probably just me trying to say it in an 'necessarily' harsh way

Would you find it interesting to know how being a kindergarten teacher influenced their process? And I mean not in a mundane way like scheduling.

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn8qlk ... 1968_music

Watching. Learning.

[nowaysj]

I think you're asking the quire. The only thing I want to see is MY record being produced, haha. I know what goes into it. A tun of boring shit.

Maybe regular people would like to know. But there aren't many regular people around here.

[hubb]

Mystique and secresy is pretty central to the best music in our throat of the forrest.

I'd rather prefer to convince myself that the person I listen to was a weird hermit wizard than a kinder garden teacher... but thats probably just me trying to say it in an 'necessarily' harsh way

Would you find it interesting to know how being a kindergarten teacher influenced their process? And I mean not in a mundane way like scheduling.

Only if the kids where used as batteries in one of the machines.

Don't get me wrong kids are the best, they can talk about stuff like this...
aaand they can actually share what it means to them.
We end up giving out technical advice (by we I mean me )..
I guess part of it is me wanting musicians to be more straight up alchymists or weird experimentarists than people that actually know what they are doing.
Maybe even to the point where, when we know what we are doing it's a sign that its time to change direction!

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I think you're asking the quire. The only thing I want to see is MY record being produced, haha. I know what goes into it. A tun of boring shit.

Maybe regular people would like to know. But there aren't many regular people around here.

Duly noted!

Personally, I find the idea of studio session live streams or recordings completely and utterly boring. People seem to be into them though.

Only if the kids where used as batteries in one of the machines.

Don't get me wrong kids are the best, they can talk about stuff like this...
aaand they can actually share what it means to them.
We end up giving out technical advice (by we I mean me )..
I guess part of it is me wanting musicians to be more straight up alchymists or weird experimentarists than people that actually know what they are doing.
Maybe even to the point where, when we know what we are doing it's a sign that its time to change direction!

Interesting thoughts here as well.


Overall, I'm thinking more in terms of what fans might find interesting, not other producers. I know there is a huge crossover there in the dance music world. But this theoretical project wouldn't be dance music and I wouldn't be aiming directly at other musicians or producers as a target audience.

I'd prefer to keep everything light, whacky and fun.

Because I completely agree with both of you...I seriously can't imagine wanting to watch someone talk about why they turned a knob 3 units one way or the other...

I'd would prefer a balance between being interesting to people who would be purely "fans" and still be be about "process" on some level, but just enough to be interesting in that way to any creative type.

[nowaysj]

I think you're ratio of shooting to usable material would be 100:1. The studio is a dreary place. With a lot of clicking and staring.

There are moments, though. When things click, the fire ignites. Capturing those moments would be dope. Then documenting how that fire is suffocated by formatting it into discreet distributable/consumable song chunks would be interesting... (but we're not talking about my studio... )

[hubb]

Im thinking 'gameshow' now.

Making a song from fan inputs or whatever..

could be new or nu

[Sharmaji]

check Imogen Heap's video blogs, 2010.

[legend4ry]

I started doing this for my album what just came out..

Made 3 of the tracks live on stream, sadly life took over for a bit and couldn't stream actively as weird working hours.

Defs will be documenting projects coming up though.

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I think you're ratio of shooting to usable material would be 100:1. The studio is a dreary place. With a lot of clicking and staring.

There are moments, though. When things click, the fire ignites. Capturing those moments would be dope. Then documenting how that fire is suffocated by formatting it into discreet distributable/consumable song chunks would be interesting... (but we're not talking about my studio... )

Yea. I might as well just drop the other shoe and say that this *is* happening--I've been telling myself for a decade (yea, really) that I was going to do a spoken word and synthesizers/drum machines/field recordings project.

So there is a vocal/lyrics/writing aspect to this as well. And...I'm not sure what else. Thing is I'm not even sure who the hell my audience is, I'm curious what percentage of dance music enthusiasts or even non-dance but electronic enthusiasts would really be interested in this.

I'll be filming a lot and editing down to the sweet stuff. That Stone's video was actually a really nice example. So thanks for that again.

@hubb: I was actually thinking interactive in some sense might be cool. But working with fan input seems like it could get out of hand fast ;p

@Sharm: will do, thank you!

@Legend4ry: yea, I watched a one or two of your screen cap sessions a while back. I will admit I skipped around a bit, but surely some interesting parts in all the "episodes" I watched : )

[nowaysj]

I'd like to film myself in the studio. Like me listening to a 4 bar loop for three hours. Would be enthralling. That would be some Godard level shit, like actually next level sad.

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I'd like to film myself in the studio. Like me listening to a 4 bar loop for three hours. Would be enthralling. That would be some Godard level shit, like actually next level sad.

I'm kind of automatically assuming I'd edit that shite out just a enough to keep the audience on the edge of their seat then straight to the golden moment...

[cyclopian]

I'd like to film myself in the studio. Like me listening to a 4 bar loop for three hours. Would be enthralling. That would be some Godard level shit, like actually next level sad.

I'm picturing hours of watching you untangle trs cables

[hubb]

hardware innit

[nowaysj]

I'd like to film myself in the studio. Like me listening to a 4 bar loop for three hours. Would be enthralling. That would be some Godard level shit, like actually next level sad.

I'm picturing hours of watching you untangle trs cables

Try days.

If anybody can find my monitor cables, that would be great, also. We could shoot an episode on that alone. Interspersed with me having gastrointestinal issues.

[nowaysj]

Cables found.

Next episode: Find the wireless mouse in the 3800 square foot house.

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Interspersed with me having gastrointestinal issues.

In this episode nowaysj learns us how to resample farts.