Yesterday’s post reminded me of a similar story I was following awhile back. To recap, yesterday NPR featured a segment on David Morneau, a doctoral candidate in musical composition at Ohio State. He decided to write a song a day for an entire year. He says he had hit a creative block and wanted a deadline to help him develop some musical self-discipline (I paraphrase).
I remember another guy who also wanted to set arbitrary deadlines for his songwriting. His name is Jonathan Coulton. He quit his day job and started a project called Thing a Week in which he wrote a song each week for a year and posted them on his web site. He writes quirky songs about geeky subjects. Some of them became big internet hits.
Tags: jonathan coulton, self-discipline, song a week, thing a week
July 2, 2008 at 8:48 am |
[...] Jonathan Coulton – a song a week Yesterday’s post reminded me of a similar story I was following awhile back. To recap, yesterday NPR featured a segment on David Morneau, a doctoral candidate in musical composition at Ohio State. He decided to write a song a day for an entire year. He says he had hit a creative block and wanted a deadline to help him develop some musical self-discipline (I paraphrase). I remember another guy who also wanted to set arbitrary deadlines for his songwriting. His name is Jonathan Coulton. He qui [...]
July 12, 2008 at 8:44 am |
Now writing a song a week, I might be able to manage – Even though I signed up for 5090 FAWM, I’ve only written 2 songs thus far. I’m not complaining – I really can’t envision writing 50 songs in 90 days, so writing a song a week would be fantastic!
A song a day -that seems nigh impossible!