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I might give it a go. Have done similar things in the past, only usually a month max. Also usually after one week I drop off.. The last one I did was a week in May, that got me 6 (well actually more, I just did not post more) sketches for in my 'finish one day' folder ;)
Only I don't do traditional songwriting but more electronic production in the DAW. Any of that happening there or is it mostly people with actual instrument skills?
Oh yeah, there's a lot of people doing electronic music and instrumentals only. This guy does some awesome stuff, it's unbelievable.
I started doing only electronic music, but I started participating in games, challenges, and collaborations, and I quickly got out of my comfort zone (specially the random collaborations). One year I decided to add some vocals for a random collaboration, got some good feedback, and eventually I took 2 years of singing lessons! Totally unexpected.
And of course you don't have to do any of that if you don't want, you can just post your songs and listen to songs in genres you like.
Have it any criteria what is a song? Should it be stricrtly with lyrics? Can some annoying dissonant chords produced with sawtooth waves and named like "symphony of misery" also accounted as song?
The criteria is very loose: all it needs to be considered a song is a title, everything else is optional.
There's a lot of weird and experimental stuff. Last year I did a song that was just modulated feedback from a no-input mixer. Another year I did a song that was composed of "silences": I used the quiet part of samples from a cathedral, a funeral, radio static, etc., to make a song that was almost completely silent.
I like the challenge because the fast pace encourages creativity and experimentation. Any idea gets transformed into a song.