Moz
Group: Musicians
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Posted: Nov. 03 2006, 02:18 |
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Have you heard of NaNoWriMo? if not, go to http://www.nanowrimo.org - the aim is to write a 50,000 word novel in just one month.
I thought it might be interesting to try a similar idea but with music. This would be called GloMuWriMo, or Global Music Writing Month. (I removed National because that isn't even an accurate part of the NaNoWriMo title - it's a worldwide event.)
This event would be accompanied with some information pages on lyricless.com.
The idea is to challenge instrumental composers to write a brand new piece of music in the space of one month.
The rules:
1. You must be a registered user of lyricless.com to enter.
2. Only instrumental music is allowed, i.e. no vocals or vocal effects of any kind.
3. You can use recorded instruments, a computer, or a combination of the two. It doesn’t matter how you create the music.
4. The track must be no shorter than 2 minutes and no longer than 10 minutes in length.
5. You must write the music from scratch during the one month period. You may not remix an existing track or develop an unfinished track written outside the one month period.
6. You must submit your track to lyricless.com so we can verify that you have obeyed the rules. If you wish to share your track then you may do so, please specify this or your file will be deleted from the server once we have deleted it.
I don't expect a lot of participants and I understand that even those who do sign up will not be able to finish their track. But I thought it would be good to find out if anyone here would be interested in the idea.
Are you interested in taking part? Do you have any comments on the rules? I would like to run the event in early 2007, probably February or March, so please post your comments as soon as you can.
Thanks for reading! 
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