The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Here in the UK we don't Thanksgiving (unsurprisingly) or Halloween, which means the next big holiday for us is Xmas.

I know everyone has other things going on, but the success of Katy Oddio's Halloween Project inspired me - I had this idea I hope I can persuade a few of you to contribute to. It won't take up much of your time and should be a bit of fun. Basically I want to celebrate the commercialisation of Xmas while at the same time make an aural antidote to it. I intend to do this by collecting together vaguely relevant sound samples from across the world, mashing them up into one piece of music 'n' words, then broadcast it to the world on Christmas Day.

What you can do to help? Pretty much anything, if it's sound-related. Here are a few suggestions, just to get you all thinkin' -

*A cover of a (public domain) christmas carol.
*A field recording of the shopping rush at your local walmart one saturday between now and 10th Dec.
*An instrumental, with cheesy downloaded sleighbell sounds.
* Interviewing your kids, if you have any, or your neighbours' kids if you don't, about what they like about xmas and what they don't.
* Reading a poem you have written about the crap presents you have recieved.
* Your best impressions of Santa.
* Something you've already recorded, on a cheap and nasty cassette recorder.
* Something taken from the public domain and mangled up.

I'm aiming for between 1/2 hr and an hr's worth of sound, depending on how many people contribute. Variety is more important than sound quality - I aim to use everything I receive. If no-one else contributes, I'll do it myself, only it won't be anywhere near as good, obviously. The plan is I then do a continuous broadcast, with a little live mixing, at some point on Xmas Day, and then leave a stream on my website for the christmas period.

A few disclaimers - I won't touch anything sent that i believe violates someone else's copyrigh; oh yeah and this is an ART project first and foremost. I've never been scared to art-wank, so be prepared!

WANTED: 1 or more piece(s) of sound,
LENGTH: between 10 secs and 10 minutes,
THEME: about Christmas, or in some obvious way expressing a mood of Christmas.
FILE FORMAT: AIFF, MP3, OGG or WAV. File in any format no bigger than 10mb.
DEADLINE: Wednesday 13th December, 12.00pm GMT.
SEND TO: admin at johnnycashpoint dot com.

ADDITIONAL: If people want to send me artwork for the webpage I will do to promote this, then that would be great. Also if people can come up with a hilarious title for it, equally welcome! Also please foward this to anyone who you think might be able to help either in the making of the aurals or in the disemination of the idea.

Go Xmas!

j$

Here, again, is my Xmas page. Go fish.

I especially recommend "Rudolph the Venison Sausage"

I'll have somethin' for ya, Johnny.

am in.

Awesome.

If someone wants to do something but is short of an idea, I plan to get someone to record a poem-version of my lyric for 'Fightin' This Xmas' from my 'Half Cut ...' AAD ... you can get the words about halfway down in here

j$

this is a silly and slightly irrelevant idea, so i am totally in. Art and sound, whatever I manage to pull out of this vast crap-hole called my imagination.

This is sweet. I hope to do an epic instrumental.

Weird, I just was about to ask if anyone wanted to do a Christmas song. So yeah, I'm obviously in.

I've been doing too much work, and not enough music. I'll try to get something done.

Though it's copyrighted, Jimmy Smith's "A Walk on the Wild Side" is a mind-blowing tune with some good sleighbell action.

I will gladly dress as a mexican american gangsta and threaten kids with a knife and tell them I'm going to steal their presents and record their reactions.

The Sober Irishman wrote:Though it's copyrighted, Jimmy Smith's "A Walk on the Wild Side" is a mind-blowing tune with some good sleighbell action.

I've probably said this here before, but Jimmy Smith's Christmas Cookin' is the best Christmas album ever.

The Sober Irishman wrote:Though it's copyrighted, Jimmy Smith's "A Walk on the Wild Side" is a mind-blowing tune with some good sleighbell action.

I mis-read this as Jimmy Smits' 'Walk On The Wild Side' which would be a fantastic cover version, and even better if it had sleigh bells on it.

I'm in. I'll try my luck with the lyric poem, and mayhaps the santa impression. If I can find my Santa Doll w/ subliminal message audio I'll get you that too.

EDIT: I agree <a href="http://geezermusicclub.wordpress.com/20 ... mmy-smith/"> A Walk on The Wild Side</a> does have some nice use of jingle bells on it.