Collaborative Scoring with HitRECord.org
Okay, wanna see how this works? I posted a rough sketch of the score for the in-progress short film “Morgan & Destiny’s Eleventeeth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo” before I left for Mearsy’s wedding this weekend. Today I popped into a coffee shop and found a page full of submissions! Strings, drums, percussion, piano, trumpets, guitars, oh my!
In one weekend, all of these isolated instruments were uploaded on HitRECord.org to go along with the score I wrote. Tomorrow, I’ll be back in my little studio and will start adding these new parts to the score, editing, and then mixing them for the premier screening at SXSW on Saturday.
It’s quite incredible to work this way!
#validating
When I first saw Maestro Nathan Johnson’s creative process, it was gamechanging. I immediately knew two things:
- It is wise to structure Creative Processes so that they don’t rely on their best possible outcome, but rather iterate. eg, so the short-term actions are not contingent on the long-term success, but they do feed and add to it.
- When this man’s creative process becomes an open thing for the world and the internet to participate in, great things will happen.
It’s uber-exciting to finally see it happening, and I’m honored to have been a part of making it happen :)
“You can be at certain parties and not really be there. You can hear how certain parties have their own implied ends embedded in the choreography of the party itself. One of the saddest times Joelle van Dyne ever feels anywhere is that invisible pivot where a party ends — even a bad party — that moment of unspoken accord when everyone starts collecting his lighter and date, jacket or greatcoat, his one last beer hanging from the plastic rind’s five rings, says certain perfunctory things to the hostess in a way that acknowledges their perfunctoriness without seeming insencere, and leaves, usually shutting the door. When everybody’s voices recede down the hall. When the hostess turns back in from the closed door and sees the litter and the expanding white V of utter silence in the party’s wake.”
-David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest.
Not all relationships are meant to last forever, even when you’re in love. Some love stories are short stories, but they are love stories all the same.
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(via iheartlove) THIS IS FROM MONDAY’S EPISODE OF THE TV SHOW GREEK, JUST SAYING. (via stopnicole) |
WARNING: RARE SELF PROMOTION POST. The Life of the World to Come, the Mountain Goats performance film I directed, is coming to DVD and screening at select venues in March and April. The DVD is limited edition, and should be something really special - John Darnielle has designed the packaging himself, and he claims it is a thing of rare beauty. More details here.
Yes!
