A few years ago I was a little low on funds and decided I wanted to try to work on homemade Christmas presents - I'd heard that Sufjan Stevens' Christmas ablums had actually began by him recording CD's for his family and thought it was actually not a bad idea. I'd intended to record all of the songs seriously but someone requested I record Jingle Bell Rock and it kind of took the songs in a new direction. Serious and silly - classical, jazzy and acoustic... acapella with vocal instrumentation, and so on. Really the sky was the limit - though I was recording everything on my mac through my mac ear buds or computer audio input.
I opted to ask for a mic for Christmas that year without telling them my project - and they got me a mic. So this last year I was able to record more Christmas songs with a better microphone and started uploading more onto SoundCloud. (And also learned about the difficulties of finding good recording space, as background noises exist everywhere.)
I also started recording originals for SoundCloud so that I might be able to collaborate with other musicians better - getting feedback and so on. While it has helped with that, it's also enabled me to listen to all of these fabulous musicians I've met in my life. I really just think it was just a great idea to create a space specifically for sharing music.
Here are a couple of songs I was listening to tonight:
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Also... this video made me laugh...
"Runner Eats It Immediately After Interview about Running"
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