Come one, come all, and join the 2HT project!

Very cool! 

I might jump in if I can recover from this jet lag this week!

I dig it.  Wonder when the next time I'll have a free two hours is, though?  Hmmm....

SteveStrummerUK


I don't really see the point.

+1
Call me a cynic, but I suspect there might be quite a few that would take considerably longer - who's to know ?

bapu


jamesyoyo can't even boot his computer inside of two hours.

 

But it would still sound awesome.

I did THIS ONE in about 20 minutes.

And THIS ONE in about 60 minutes.

And it shows.

jamesg1213


This one took me 3 hours; http://www.soundclick.com...=756694&songID=5830592

Doesn't count.

bapu

bapu

jamesg1213


This one took me 3 hours; http://www.soundclick.com...=756694&songID=5830592

Doesn't count.

Even if it is 3 times better than my one hour one.

Neither of mine are two minutes long.

jamesg1213


If you take out the time you spent posting in between, your one hour tune probably took 12 minutes. Winner!

How did you kno.....




never mind.

jamesg1213


If memory serves, Strummy wrote and recorded 'Reggie Mental' in 90 mins...;-)

 
Tru dat.
 
You have a good memory mate
 
Although my best ever time for recording (not including writing) by far was when I laid down the backing track of White Riot for Troy. I vaguely recall stumbling in from the pub one night, firing up Guitar Tracks 3 and twatting on about three minutes of drum loops. It then took me literally the time it took to play two rhythm guitars, a likkle bit of lead and a bass track. Every track is 'live' from start to finish with no overdubs, so all in all it was done in about twenty minutes!
 
I sent it to Troy to see if he could sing to it and told him that if he fancied giving it a crack I'd re-record all the parts 'properly'. As it happened he said to leave it exactly as it was because he liked the rawness of the sound. So that's what we did.
 
What I haven't told too many folks here is that after having sampled quite a few pints of Brew XI I'd somehow convinced myself that I could sing, and so I also added the one and only ever Straummy vocal track. It is, needless to say, truly appalling!
 
Send money now, or I'll let you hear it
 
 
 
 

julibee


Haters.  :D


Actually, this kind of thing happens in visual art communities all the time, so why not in music?  For practice, for inspiration, whatever... Just to see if you CAN sometimes is enough.  

 
But this is why I can't see the point Jules.
 
If you sit down and plan to record something at a certain time and in a set amount of time, you aren't really being inspirational, and the exact opposite of spontaneous.

This exercise is a type of Crap Art, and as such, nothing incredible or spectacular is expected to come of it (though who's to say something cool won't happen?).

The main point is to have fun and exercise your creativity within a set of constraints.  If you don't think it would be a fun way to spend two hours, then there's nothing forcing you to do it

However, if you're like me and you enjoy a good creative challenge, give it a go.  You know, constraints often foster creativity.  I write music on a Game Boy from time to time, and that leaves me with a maximum of 4 tracks and 3-note polyphony, if I have all the tracks play at the same time.  It's limiting, yes, but that's part of the challenge!  Part of the fun!

I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with.  Post your tracks as video responses to the introduction video and I'll put them on the playlist so they can all go one after the other.

alexoosthoek

bapu

SteveStrummerUK

What I haven't told too many folks here is that after having sampled quite a few pints of Brew XI I'd somehow convinced myself that I could sing, and so I also added the one and only ever Straummy vocal track. It is, needless to say, truly appalling! 

Send money now, or I'll let you hear it

I've heard it.

Me too

Isn't it amazing that we're still alive to tell?

alexoosthoek

bapu

alexoosthoek

bapu

SteveStrummerUK

What I haven't told too many folks here is that after having sampled quite a few pints of Brew XI I'd somehow convinced myself that I could sing, and so I also added the one and only ever Straummy vocal track. It is, needless to say, truly appalling! 

Send money now, or I'll let you hear it

I've heard it.

Me too

Isn't it amazing that we're still alive to tell?

True that, but my singing is much worserder though

Have you heard me (without Melodyne)?

Don't know Ed, did I?

alexoosthoek


Don't know Ed, did I?

If you heard this one, you did.