Most of my musical focus this year is going to be spent on doing Collection Audit again. Every other year since 2008, I've attempted (and so far been successful) in listening to all of the music in my collection. Since 2014, I've also been writing about things I notice while listening to everything.
The only new project I started is Lyres, Harps, and Cymbals. Last year, I got a box set of Bach's complete sacred cantatas, and I started LHC mostly as a way just to write about them. I'm also writing about other church music, and I revived the Hymnal Habitation project that I did from late 2012 to early 2015 (although it's not called Hymnal Habitation anymore).
The other projects I'm doing are just continuations of what I've already been doing:
- Cover projects - last year, I started a bunch of projects where I try to learn every part to every song by a particular band. I'm well aware that I'll probably never finish (especially because this year I'll be more focused on Collection Audit than these projects), but even in just attempting to learn all of the parts, I've discovered some interesting things I probably would have been oblivious to otherwise.
- Verulam Cover Project - The Zombies and related bands (Argent, Colin Blunstone, Rod Argent)
- APP Stereotomy - The Alan Parsons Project and Keats
- Pendleton Sounds - The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and SMiLE (and maybe others eventually)
- 10538 Orchestra - Electric Light Orchestra
- Beatle Audit - The Beatles
- February Album Writing Month (FAWM) - the challenge to write a fourteen-song album in February, which I've participated in since 2010 (and completed in various degree every year, although I think I deserve credit only for the last four years, when I actually recorded fourteen songs). Because it's Leap Year, the requirement might be fourteen and a half songs this time; that's what they did in 2012.
- 50/90 - the challenge to write fifty songs in ninety days (from 4 July to 1 October), which I've also participated in since 2010. I've never actually finished, but I've still written some pretty good stuff for this project. For the last two years, I've suddenly run out of momentum once July is over (I think I must get stuck in the FAWM mindset).
Because I'm doing Collection Audit, I've put the Classical Music Queue and the Cover Project Listening Schedule on hold. Once I finish Collection Audit (or once the year is over, whichever comes first), I'll restart both of those.
I'm going to try to continue to have weekly posts here, but because I'm doing Collection Audit, that's where I'll be writing the most. I do have some things that I noticed last year that I never got around to investigating, and if the schedule works out, I'll be able to listen to them for Collection Audit and write about them here.
I'm going to try to continue to have weekly posts here, but because I'm doing Collection Audit, that's where I'll be writing the most. I do have some things that I noticed last year that I never got around to investigating, and if the schedule works out, I'll be able to listen to them for Collection Audit and write about them here.
