24HR Records: 3 Strangers Write And Record 3 Songs In 24 Hours
By Nicholas Roberts of And the Giraffe.
24HR Records, a Nashville-based recording project, places 3 musicians who have never met before into a studio for a 24 hour marathon session to write, produce, and record 3 brand new songs for an EP. The team of musicians, producers, and a camera crew pack into a studio at the start of each session and work through the day and night to capture the creative process of strangers making music together.
Starting at noon, the doors of the studio swing open and the musicians meet each other for the first time. What they do next is up to them. A full tracking room, mixing room, and walls of instruments are available to the musicians to use however they’d like to shape their episode of 24HR Records.
Although relatively new, 24HR Records has already seen plenty of Nashville’s musical elite come through the studio (members of Daniel Ellsworth and the Great Lakes, Joseph Lemay, Brooke Waggoner). Started in 2012 by Michael Hardesty and Stephen Turney, the project focuses on the spontaneity of musical creation often ignored in modern record making. By forcing a deadline, the musicians have to think quickly, live with mistakes, and appreciate the process of the craft – a head-nod to the recording processes of the 60’s and 70’s.
The latest installment, an episode called “Taro,” features Dan Snyder (Paper Lights), Nicholas Roberts (And the Giraffe), and Thomas Doeve (INTL). The episode was filmed at the newly opened 1092 Studios in Nashville and can be seen below:
24HR Records || Taro
This is awesome! I would love to do this in the UK (I am a keyboard player) This music is really good to. How do musicians always come up with awesome stuff under pressure ehe! Maybe it could be 3 musicians from completely different countries who could only communicate though music?
Yea… because that’s how it works… real big composers do this all the time… (not) I didn’t listen to them, but I can imagine the quality and the level of that “music” they create in 24 hours.
love!!! backing yourself into a creative corner is a great way to make any art. in some sense, it’s probably how all art is made; this project just makes the creative corner more explicit.
i’m part of a new york group, 29 hour music people, that has been doing something similar for the past three years. we give ourselves a weekend to write and record a full album. the limitations tend to be liberating. we’ve recorded four albums so far and released two: http://29hourmusicpeople.bandcamp.com/
it’s awesome to discover other people working in similar ways, and doing it so well.