Last year, I wrote 16 tracks as part of FAWM, an annual songwriting challenge where the goal is to write 14 tracks in 28 days. This year, I’m a couple of days late posting my first tracks (compared to last year, anyway), but I’ve made a start. Here’s my FAWM profile with links to the […]
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Music updates, 24th Sept 2017: New playlist, All tracks page
I’ve been tidying up my personal site, updating the layout to work better on mobile devices, and adding a bit of new content. Earlier in the year, I did a big update to the site to move away from static pages and put some of the content into a MySQL database. I didn’t blog about […]
Music update: FAWM complete!
Tonight, I completed FAWM! (Here’s my original post, for context.) Basically, I wrote 14 tracks in 18 days – I finished with 10 days to spare. I might do a couple more, but for now, that’s the challenge done. A couple of links to check out: “Ten” – the album page on benbarden.com with all 14 […]
Music update: 2016 albums and what’s coming up in 2017
I’m quite pleased with what I achieved in 2016. As my Music page shows, I released four new albums: Symmetry 1 Symmetry 2 Revisited Voyage into Space I released Symmetry 1 and Symmetry 2 simultaneously, under the name “GFD”. Towards the end of the year, I released Voyage into Space, also as “GFD”. Meanwhile, the Revisited project […]