NPRs ASC's Project Song - cool video!

drë · Post by **drë** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:11 pm

48 hours to write and record a song, documented.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=15859351

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:28 pm

48 hours? That's a bit much. I think 4.8 hours would be more fun to watch, or better yet - 48 minutes!

Post by **Lunkhead** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:40 pm

Wow, cool show. I dig the song, too.

EDIT: I think it's funny that he tracks everything with his hat on underneath his headphones. It must be nice to have somebody else doing the engineering, too, along with having the studio stocked, setup, and ready to go.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:02 pm

I love that guitar tone. Yeah, nice to have an engineer hanging out. What if Oprah just gave all of us a full time engineer on one of her shows?

They had just built that studio when I was at NPR. Quite a nice room that can be reconfigured at will and accommodate a small orchestra. Not to mention 72 (I think) digital tracks, that nice wide screen display to critique the score (yeah, right!).

Overall, I'm disappointed with what he came up with. A bit too repetitive but what happens happens, as we all know, and he's honest about the loop based song being simple and ensuring he'd finish it in time.