One-Hour Challenge

Ostin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:47:54 +0000

I’ve recently started writing something each day. One thing with the film music business is the necessity of not “owning” a track after completing it. You can make the best track ever, but if it doesn’t fit the needs of the film it becomes utterly useless. In fact, it’s less than useless because the hours/days you spent on that track are gone. Granted, you’re also closer to knowing what is needed because you then know what’s not, but it still is an interesting feeling.

I was thinking of what to make today when I remembered something I saw last night. On his Facebook page, Bob Stark, a highly-regarded (and darn good, if I do say so myself) Portland-based audio engineer made an oblique comment about seven flats being a relatively common key for what he’s seen lately. (For those who don’t know music, seven flats is actually not very common.) So I made something with seven flats. But then I thought it would be even more interesting if I made something quickly, say in just an hour.

So, presto! A new idea is born: the One-Hour Challenge. What can be made from nothing in an hour? By made, I mean from the start of writing to rendering the final product in 60 minutes. To start, we have this:

‘Tis a simple little bit, but all great ideas and things are, at heart, a simple thing.

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One-Hour Challenge