Episode 9 - Never Never November (writing)
Thesis: you can make a good song by imitating a bad song in reverse. Here I pick my least favorite song ever, "Sussudio" by Phil Collins, and write it...
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Experience exceptional songs written in real-time and hear the unique approaches of outside-the-box musicians. Host Alex Reed, with guests, covers songwriting both in practice and in theory, taking up some of the most intriguing, offbeat, and dangerous songs of our time.
Episode 8 - The Tenant (writing)
Songwriting in realtime, inspired by the global pandemic. This song is a compassionate but Kafkaesque snapshot of a world with no escape. Tune in! The...
Episode 7 - Flight Risk (writing)
A songwriting lesson through real-time praxis. Built on a consistent four-chord loop, this ends up as a catchy and arresting bit of modern pop about ...
Episode 6 - We Do Parties (writing)
Ever imagine you're in a band of the last people on Earth, who are forced to reenact your own destruction as a party trick for the strange rituals of ...
Episode 5 - Winning (writing)
A catchy bit of dark and driving folk music. Inspired by Game of Thrones (?!), the song I write in this episode is an exploration of victory as anti-...
Episode 4 - Red Letter Day (writing)
Songwriting in realtime: Using chance in songwriting—bibliomancy, dice, Oblique Strategies cards–leads to a remarkable song about Chinese dragons, bic...
Episode 3 - Fifty Thousand Eyes (A Fly Like Me) (writing)
Songwriting in realtime: How to you turn trash into gold? By becoming a fly, of course. The result is a high energy punk song (finished demo starts at...
Episode 2 - Are You Paralyzed? (writing)
Songwriting in realtime: here I turn a dream about Ian Curtis into a song with pointed body horror. The result is a demo of "Are You Paralyzed?" (a p...
Episode 1 - The Flood Comes for You (writing)
Songwriting in realtime: how do we take political rage (in this case the Kavanaugh hearings) and turn it into a song with real force? This episode in...