By Burr on 09-Oct-07 @ 4:05pm
in Compilations.
The FAWM CD3 listening committee is pleased to (finally) announce the songs that will represent the FAWM 2007 experience on this year’s compilation. It was a tough job: we listened to over 80 great tracks (more than 4.5 hours of music!) and had to narrow it down to a mere fraction of that. Wow! Here also is a sneak peak at this year’s album cover art. In continuing with our tradition of using images from emerging and prominent visual artists, this year’s compilation features the work of Nicolas Lampert.
“14 SONGS IN 28 DAYS” (VOL. 3) TRACK LIST:
01. Isaac Quatorze - (Super) Super Horrocious
02. Andy Dwyer - Aquamarine
03. Roger, Roll - Into the Pavement with Light
04. Phil Norman - Your Love is On My Mind
05. Nancy Rost - Golden Gate
06. Charlie Cheney & Sean Michael Dargan - Crystal Clear Channel
07. Clear Blue Betty - Through the Walls
08. Axl - Ha Ha Happy Birthday
09. Pine Box Orchestra - Answers Come
10. Hoopshank - Westbourne Avenue
11. Mary Choate - Black Oolong
12. Fireball - Bring On The Spring
13. Kerry Goulder & Becca Palm - The Moon Escapes Tonight
14. Resonance - I’m Going Home
CD BONUS TRACK:
15. Beethoven’s Howlingly Melodious New Bass Guitar ‘N Strangle Disco (Megamix)
ONLINE BONUS TRACKS:
15. Eric Agner - Falling
16. Old Lost John - On My Side of the River
17. Dave Schindele - Nicole
18. Nigel Norman O’Shea - King Finian
19. Margaret Bonnell - Little White Lies
20. Robert Myers - Emerald Drone
21. Scott McBride - Hotel Room
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By Burr on 19-Sep-07 @ 11:52am
in Web Culture and Fun Stuff.
Ahoy, all ye fawmin’ maties… take note! It be talk like a pirate day, so hoist ye vents to the lee an’ tarn yer eyes t’the seagalls. An’ in the fawmin’ spirit, write yerself a new sea-shanty to sing while sailin’ the shimmerin’ seas!!
By Burr on 11-Sep-07 @ 2:34pm
in Statistics and Fun Stuff.
Earlier this year, I aspired to create a “2007 Annual Report” that summed up statistics and trends about this year’s FAWM. I’d hoped to make it an annual tradition (like the fawmpilation CD) to document and characterize each year’s event. However, I was just too busy to pull it together in such a form. Several fawmers worked hard to gather up a lot of cool data for this “report,” though, so we can’t just let it go to waste…
Now that we have this blog, it seems like an appropriate (and manageable) outlet for such info. So we’ll kick off this series of posts with a couple of cartograms (maps distorted to reflect a property other than landmass) from FAWM 2007:
First, we have a world map with each country scaled relative to the number of songs posted by its residents. The thin gray countries had no recorded activity, and the larger active countries are color-coded by continent. We also included a list of the top web-browser language settings for the traffic we got during February this year (scaled logarithmically, so “English” should really be even bigger, but you get the idea).
Since we had more detailed location data for American fawmers, we made up another cartogram showing where in the USA our songs came from. States are color-coded by region (Pacific, Midwest, Northeast, etc.), and we also listed the top 10 US cities by total song output. What’s particularly amazing is that the prolific areas aren’t all clustered together. In fact, the major “FAWM hubs” appear to be fairly evenly spread out, which is neat, considering most people learn about FAWM by word-of-mouth.
It will be interesting to see if/how these maps change for FAWM 2008 and beyond. In the meantime, keep your eyes on the blog for more fun stuff and statistics!
By Burr on 04-Sep-07 @ 11:00am
in Compilations.
Here’s a photo of all the submissions we got in the mail for this year’s compilation CD (not including the many submitted online by internationals and procrastinators)! In total, there are over 80 tracks for the listening committee to review, from about 40 fawmers. General trends? There are several collaborations, a few instrumentals, and a healthy number of weekly challenge songs too (especially the “color” and “street name” themes). The envelopes on the floor also include files for the collaborative Strangle Disco “megamix” magnum opus I intend to begin work on this week (about 15 songs to draw from, which might be plenty)!
I haven’t had a chance to listen to everything yet, but I’m blown away by what I’ve heard so far. I managed to get everything collated last night (took several hours), somewhat normalized the audio levels, and anonymized the “artist” MP3 tags for the listening committee, who will start listening soon.
We’ll have more news about this, our third annual FAWM compilation CD, toward the end of the month. Thanks to all of you who submitted your music! Your efforts made this the best FAWM yet, and will make it the best “fawmpilation” yet, too…