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| − | "Thing a Week" is the name that [[Jonathan Coulton]] gave to a creative experiment which ran from September 16, 2005 ([[See You All in Hell]]) to September 30, 2006 ([[We Will Rock You]]/[[We Are the Champions]]). When he quit his day job to pursue music full-time, one of his co-workers suggested that he release a song each week for a year | + | "'''Thing a Week'''" is the name that [[Jonathan Coulton]] gave to a creative experiment which ran from September 16, 2005 ([[See You All in Hell]]) to September 30, 2006 ([[We Will Rock You]]/[[We Are the Champions]]). |
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| + | When he quit his day job to pursue music full-time, one of his former co-workers suggested that he release a song each week for a year. The objectives were: | ||
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| + | *(a) to push the artist's creative envelope by adopting what Coulton describes as a "forced-march approach to writing and recording"; | ||
| + | *(b) to prove to himself that he was capable of producing creative output to a deadline; and | ||
| + | *(c) to test the viability of the internet and Creative Commons as a platform capable of supporting a professional artist financially. | ||
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| + | The resulting 52 tracks included many original songs, some covers, one mash-up, and a few songs based largely or entirely on sampled or synthesized vocals. Some of the original songs had a previous history, having been performed or recorded earlier, but many were truly novel works. Fifty-one of the tracks (excepting the mash-up, for legal reasons) were collected in a series of four seasonally-themed CDs which are available singly or as a boxed set. | ||
* [[Discography#Thing_a_Week|List of Thing a Week songs]] | * [[Discography#Thing_a_Week|List of Thing a Week songs]] | ||
Revision as of 20:42, 3 May 2008
"Thing a Week" is the name that Jonathan Coulton gave to a creative experiment which ran from September 16, 2005 (See You All in Hell) to September 30, 2006 (We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions).
When he quit his day job to pursue music full-time, one of his former co-workers suggested that he release a song each week for a year. The objectives were:
- (a) to push the artist's creative envelope by adopting what Coulton describes as a "forced-march approach to writing and recording";
- (b) to prove to himself that he was capable of producing creative output to a deadline; and
- (c) to test the viability of the internet and Creative Commons as a platform capable of supporting a professional artist financially.
The resulting 52 tracks included many original songs, some covers, one mash-up, and a few songs based largely or entirely on sampled or synthesized vocals. Some of the original songs had a previous history, having been performed or recorded earlier, but many were truly novel works. Fifty-one of the tracks (excepting the mash-up, for legal reasons) were collected in a series of four seasonally-themed CDs which are available singly or as a boxed set.
