No music week is a experemental project I am conducting on myself to see what outcomes not listening to music will have for a week. The inspiration comes from a Minnesota Public Radio program called Songs from scratch. Artists are given 3 weeks to write a song on a given topic. I went to the 'show' and learned a lot about how the four artists write music and their rituals. One ritual that caught my attenion was what Steph Alexander, P.O.S., does; he completely stops listening to music and just listens to the beats he will use for songs and records what lyrics come to him. I have been trying to become a better songwriter this summer and I will be giving up music to try and see if that is something that works to help my writing. The idea is that with a lack of influence and a void of things to listen to, I will start creating things to fill the void, and they will be original becuase of the lack of influence. This is my sudo-manifesto for the project.
I will be not listening to any music. This is sometimes unavoidable, so in the case of background music, I will not have it be my main focus, i.e. no singing along or listening to lyrics.
I will write for at least an hour a day. This may be scattered throughout the day, but for at least an hour I want to try and put things on paper.
I will be keeping updates to how the project is going on this blog; songs, poems, thoughts, and ideas will be the main bulk of it.
Hopefully this will be an interesting and productive week in the ways I would like. Thanks for reading.
Martin
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I go a week without listening to any music, in hopes of finding music inside myself. And because I have nothing better to do.
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