The Null Device Blog

NPR’s “Monitor Mix” blog, run by ex-Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein (and others), has all week been writing about the decade’s advancements in music tech.  There’s a lot of the predictable “it’s good!” and “oh noes it’s killing music” stuff that happens at the end of every arbitrary slice of time.

Anyway, they posted a challenge: if it’s so easy to record these days, then record a song in a weekend.  They issued the challenge on friday afternoon, and closed it sunday evening.

Surprisingly, I decided to give it a go.  This is surprising because I’m usually the kind of guy who will spend weeks tweaking a track, and certainly several hours re-re-re-recording vocals.

I pulled it off.  The track isn’t great – the lyrics are awkward, the vocals aren’t especially strong, and it needs a bridge, but it still sounds recognizably Null Device-y.  I’m kind of astonished that I pulled it off.

Whether it’ll ever see the light of day beyond this “challenge” is another matter.