If You've Ever Loved a Song, You Have a Story...
Consider this entry a full-on "call out", so much so that I am linking this entry at Facebook (hello FB friends!) and encouraging you to send the link for this entry to anyone you think might find it of interest.
Most of my LJ friends know this but for those visiting from 'somewhere else', allow me to explain: I am creating a series of radio features called The Jukebox Memoirs (formerly known as "The Soundtrack Project"), all of which are built on a fairly simple premise: "If you have ever loved a song then you have a story". And I want that story! Or that series of stories.
It goes like this: We remember books, we can recite poetry, we remember and admire visual art, love movies and can recite some of them line for line... but for most people it is music that hits us where we live, in how we live, and, whether we're consciously aware of it or not, gets into our memory banks like no other. Jukebox Memoirs is designed to gather these memories and experiences through interviews and then, through the beauty of editing and mixing, combine those stories will elements of the music that helped to shape the story.
Allow me for a moment to present an example: http://www.zshare.net/audio/894576915bb1f3f6
The linked spot, titled "First Purchase", is the lighter side. Other stories I've already produced are more personal.
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Today's entry is also a call out with 3 questions. If or how you choose to answer them is up to you.
First, the questions:
1. What kind of music did your parents listen to? Where did they most often listen to it? (In the home? In the car?) What did you think of that music then? What do you think of it now? Did what your parents listen to shape your tastes when you were younger or even now?
2. Have you ever liked/loved a song... and then had a person or experience ruin that song? What happened? What made your feelings about that song change? If you heard the song right now what would you think of?
3. Think for a moment of your teenage years. Think of those years for at least 30 seconds. I mean it. Don't even read on until you've mentally counted to 30...
Now... if you can... what song sums it up best? Or what band/artist sums it up best? Why that song? Why that band? Why that album?
Now for the 3 ways you can share the answers:
A) You can answer them via reply right here in LJ (or on Facebook). From there I may try to coax you into taking some additional steps but any answers given will help, as they will help shape and refine the questions when I take them out into the field.
B) You can answer them privately by e-mail: starpush@comcast.net
C) You can be very bold and either record your answers (if you can do so in at least 'B'-level quality) or video your answers (I can strip the audio) and send them to me via e-mail (See above) or by link. Audio attachments to e-mail work. Youtube works. Almost any method you can think of will work. :)
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Thanks for reading and thank you in advance for replying, taking part, helping out, generating ideas, and/or offering encouragement and support. This is, in a nutshell, the series I have always wanted to produce. And now I truly get to turn the wheels on making it happen. I'd be thrilled to have any and all be part of it.
J
Most of my LJ friends know this but for those visiting from 'somewhere else', allow me to explain: I am creating a series of radio features called The Jukebox Memoirs (formerly known as "The Soundtrack Project"), all of which are built on a fairly simple premise: "If you have ever loved a song then you have a story". And I want that story! Or that series of stories.
It goes like this: We remember books, we can recite poetry, we remember and admire visual art, love movies and can recite some of them line for line... but for most people it is music that hits us where we live, in how we live, and, whether we're consciously aware of it or not, gets into our memory banks like no other. Jukebox Memoirs is designed to gather these memories and experiences through interviews and then, through the beauty of editing and mixing, combine those stories will elements of the music that helped to shape the story.
Allow me for a moment to present an example: http://www.zshare.net/audio/894576915bb1f3f6
The linked spot, titled "First Purchase", is the lighter side. Other stories I've already produced are more personal.
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Today's entry is also a call out with 3 questions. If or how you choose to answer them is up to you.
First, the questions:
1. What kind of music did your parents listen to? Where did they most often listen to it? (In the home? In the car?) What did you think of that music then? What do you think of it now? Did what your parents listen to shape your tastes when you were younger or even now?
2. Have you ever liked/loved a song... and then had a person or experience ruin that song? What happened? What made your feelings about that song change? If you heard the song right now what would you think of?
3. Think for a moment of your teenage years. Think of those years for at least 30 seconds. I mean it. Don't even read on until you've mentally counted to 30...
Now... if you can... what song sums it up best? Or what band/artist sums it up best? Why that song? Why that band? Why that album?
Now for the 3 ways you can share the answers:
A) You can answer them via reply right here in LJ (or on Facebook). From there I may try to coax you into taking some additional steps but any answers given will help, as they will help shape and refine the questions when I take them out into the field.
B) You can answer them privately by e-mail: starpush@comcast.net
C) You can be very bold and either record your answers (if you can do so in at least 'B'-level quality) or video your answers (I can strip the audio) and send them to me via e-mail (See above) or by link. Audio attachments to e-mail work. Youtube works. Almost any method you can think of will work. :)
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Thanks for reading and thank you in advance for replying, taking part, helping out, generating ideas, and/or offering encouragement and support. This is, in a nutshell, the series I have always wanted to produce. And now I truly get to turn the wheels on making it happen. I'd be thrilled to have any and all be part of it.
J