Jon Burgerman | Competition

Bad Band

Closing date: 11 August 2008

Let’s make a band!
I’ll be the pop Svengali, writing the lyrics, doodling the artwork, making all the decisions and you’ll have all the actual musical talent. The plan is to make ten songs, each song will have the music provided by a different person.

This will all be done online via email and stuff, no need to meet up and have band practice. So if you’d like to join the band and work on this project please post a link to some music you’ve made and write a line or two about why you’d like to join the band.

After the deadline you will be contacted if you have been chosen to join. Make sure you leave an email address or link to how you can be contacted.

Overall this project should be fun - so no chin stroking musos need apply. Professionals, dabblers, individuals, existing bands and tone deaf pirate robots are all invited to contribute. Your age, location, musical ability are not all that important. Feel free to post links to this competition on forums and to your musical pals. If you have any questions please get in touch here.

The final outcome of the project has yet to be determined but may result in a vinyl or CD release of the music alongside a digital download. Ideas and suggestions are welcomed though the final decisions will be made by me of course.

Please note your posted links will not appear immediately.

11/06/08

Jon, even if you round up the most tone-deaf, uncoordinated, rag-tag band, it is bound to be more interesting than the sum of American Idol (Pop Idol in your part of the world?), Making The Band and Celebrity Circus combined. I can play tambourine and make crazy faces like the dude from Brian Jonestown Massacre… Will post this on ToyCyte.

Posted by Jeremy on 06/12 at 06:56 PM

Wow!!! this is such a cool idea for a project!! :D please go check out the animation that i created the soundtrack for on my myspace page!! I’m a singer/songwriter, producer and artist...and with a sis (Laura Bath) as an illustrator i would love to get involved!! i don’t profess to be any good at production but have lots of fun experimenting!!

Posted by Charlie Bath on 06/12 at 08:19 PM

hey jon

ive just bought a electronic drum kit and i can record on my comp - hows about that?

anyway have a listen to me on the drums in this link - plus have a look at the pictures of me when i was young
http://www.purevolume.com/dollarhit

anyway i would love to be in the band
-simon

Posted by simitchell on 06/16 at 11:20 AM

Howdy.
This all sounds very interesting. I can use Garageband and I also can play the guitar. You can listen on my myspace page at www.myspace.com/youhearddanmusic for some poor compositions. It’s only for fun.
Good luck with it.
Dan

Posted by Dan Jackson on 06/17 at 03:29 PM

I play some piano + clarinet, but that doesn’t mean I can’t compose for other instruments!

Posted by Mop on 06/18 at 03:42 PM

I do singing sometimes, I’m also a dab hand at the triangle ^-^ xxx x

Posted by i heart joan on 06/18 at 03:52 PM

Hey, i’m a tone deaf pixel faced robot!

I’d love to contribute and so would my gameboylaptopstylophonebontempicasiokorgspeakandspell based band of rusty robo-helpers.

I have some bleepy stuff here - www.myspace.com/vastikroot

It’s also rumoured that i’m linked to the Angry Fart Bashers (www.myspace.com/angryfartbashers), a band formed by two robotic clockwork souls � Owl and Rodent.

Posted by Jamie Salmon on 06/18 at 04:02 PM

Hi Jon!

i can bring the scratching turntable action!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg5KGjhUejM

http://www.myspace.com/shortescratch

Posted by short-e on 06/18 at 05:45 PM

Hey Jon, like I said, well up for getting involved, Bad Band sounds like much fun.

Check your mail for a track link and drop me a line soon!

Take care,
Olly

Posted by Olly F on 06/18 at 08:08 PM

Jon,
it might be funny (:
I would like to participate.

Posted by Yellowhead on 06/18 at 11:46 PM

this sounds like it could sound interesting.

i am up for getting involved in a lo-fi tape music kind of way, should you so desire.

various musical offerings here…

http://www.skip-intro.co.uk/soundings.htm

(mine are the all in the right hand column, and some of the middle column. the ones on the left are rare fragments of hollering gathered from the remote scottish highlands).

Posted by rod people on 06/19 at 10:43 AM

hi jon!
i’m a big fan of your artwork… i’d join the band in a heartbeat! as was said earlier, it’s bound to be more interesting than 90% of the music out there.

check out my website for a sample track-- the quality is crap because it’s recorded on garageband at my highschool.

thanks!
-emily

Posted by emily on 06/19 at 07:14 PM

this idea sounds cool.. i’d be up for doing something for it,, i’ve got a myspace (.com/ffud) and last.fm (www.last.fm/music/andrew+duffell)

would be fun to help out,, good luck getting it together

andrew

Posted by Andrew on 06/19 at 10:08 PM

Howdy howdy howdy

My name is Alex, I can play bass, guitar and drums but my real passion is for old synthesisers and keyboards - I have just got an 80’s Casio Dg-20 keyboard guitar and i think it would be perfect for Bad Band -

Please check out www.myspace.com/thefractals for some examples…

Anyhoo have a listen and I hope to hear from you soon!

A xx

Posted by Alex Shaw on 06/19 at 11:43 PM

Damnit! I have no musical experience..:(...oh well. Look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Posted by Sundeep Toor on 06/20 at 10:51 AM

Jon.. i have nothing more to say than…

www.myspace.com/angryfartbashers

tone deafness required

Posted by noel on 06/20 at 11:28 AM

Hello!

This sounds incredible.

I can do drums, guitar, bass, keys & vox if need be…

www.myspace.com/robjmadin

...and also more electroniccy stuff if that’s what tickles your fancy…

www.myspace.com/dobermanremixes

I will literally do anything. Anything.

Rob.x

Posted by Rob J Madin on 06/20 at 05:38 PM

This project sounds awesome!!! I play keyboards.

http://www.myspace.com/panda84

Posted by Matt on 06/22 at 03:25 PM

Hey hey jon, I love making music. and like your drawings and would like to see what you would draw if you heard my songs. So have a looky, and tell me what you think. LOVE FROM NICK.

www.myspace.com/rockrollmanjam

plus that thing you did in the petersborough or something where people coloured it in on the walls was SICK. LOVE FROM NICK

Posted by Nick on 06/23 at 09:40 PM

Hello again Jon,
something I forgot to mention – the Angry Fart Basher’s raison d’etre is turning images into sound.
It is the axis upon which all their music spins and although most people hear is noise, their tiny clockwork souls are capable of processed beauty too.

Doodles + AFB = tralalalala.

Cheers
V_R

Posted by Jamie Salmon on 06/24 at 09:56 AM

Hi Jon & future BadBanders!

Are you in the need of a wicked, slightly chaotic maracas solo? If so, I’m your man for that.
Mean, angry tambourine? Count me in.
I can also do background vocals! I sure as hell can’t sing, but I’ve got a song in my heart. And at the moment that song is “Comfy in Nautica” by Panda Bear.

I guess my main forte is in the area of MUSIC VIDEOS as I’m a freelance DIRECTOR / PRODUCER. I’ve directed couple of videos and worked on several others. I directed my first vid on film school couple of years back and it went straight to #1 here on MTV Nordic. Now I’ve been toying with the idea of doing several videoseries based on colours and the moods they create. Perhaps we could do something like that with the 10 songs of Bad Band? It would be interesting to preserve the project as creative videos and I’d be honoured to be involved in that.

I’m also the co-founder of “Avuttomat” (eng. “The Helpless”) – a small, ragtag group of people with no musical talent, but whom now thanks to us at “Avuttomat” get a chance to say that they’re “in a band”. We never perform, we never rehearse. We just… exist. We have parties and we have merchandise in the form of t-shirts. Fun times! Hopefully there will be Bad Band t-shirts too

Overall, I’d love to help in the making of the Bad Band.

All the best,

Mika (from Finland)

* CONTACTS *
mikafilm at gmail.com
<a href=” http://www.youtube.com/user/mikafilm “>YouTube/mikafilm</a>
<a href=” http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikafilm “>LinkedIn/mikafilm</a>

PS. Andrew D. you’re quite good! I listened ALL of your songs on your MySpace and on your Last.Fm profile… Very Damien Rice-esque at times! I liked them a lot! You should definitely be chosen!

Posted by Mika (from Finland) on 06/24 at 10:59 PM

Oh my gosh,
Sounds cool Jon.

Can play guitar, songwrite and produce.
Check me out on http://www.myspace.com/kirkspencer
Id definatley be up for that.

Hope You find the right people.
Kirk

Posted by Kirk Spencer on 06/25 at 02:40 PM

thought id put my humble tinkering forward
www.myspace.com/infocomtech
it would be nice to see how it would work, and perhaps put some new life into this forgotten pass time of mine

word

Posted by Jeffrey on 06/26 at 02:28 PM

Uh, yeah, apologies for uberspam, forgot I had me one o’ them fangled Last Fm account too. More music, full gigs, Less aesthetically challenged than myspace

http://www.last.fm/music/Vastik+Root

Posted by Jamie Salmon on 06/26 at 03:45 PM

Hello Jon!

Great project! Your figures seem to dig weird sounds. I am an experimental musician from Bergen, Norway. I really like your work, and I’d love to take part in this project!

Please check out my MySpace-page for examples of what my sounds are like:

http://www.myspace.com/thedeadstation

All the best
Andreas

Posted by Andreas Brandal on 06/30 at 09:37 PM

Ola,

As a chin stroking muso, erm no wait, as a blundering buffoon I would like to join the bad band as it is the only type of band to which I could belong!

For home made, half baked tunelets see - http://www.monkeycrumbs.co.uk/category/music/homespun-tunes/

Cheers,
tino

Posted by tino on 07/06 at 09:19 AM

Ello ... I like to sing ...
Hear are some songs on my myspace ...
I would love to be in a band cos I like to sing so much I tend to forget about other instruments, intro, bridges,outros and all that and just go bla ...
Maybe you will like my bla ...
What is the band going to be called .. ?
// Lucinda

Posted by Lucinda Scott on 07/06 at 10:59 PM

hello! I would like to do something, very much, I would like that.

I am here:
http://www.vomvorton.co.uk
and here:
http://www.myspace.com/vomvorton

and I would endeavour to create your sounds.
vom

Posted by Vom on 07/08 at 05:51 PM

Alright my babbers!
I like to make sweet music so would love to collaborate with u on this outstanding idea.
Some of my stuff can be found…
http://www.myspace.com/fivelungstheproducer
Big up respex
Fivelungs

Posted by Fivelungs on 07/14 at 08:13 PM

Hi Jon,
Sounds like fun, so I’ll say yes!
I’m a singer/songwriter and just made a record. You can hear some tunes at: www.myspace.com/karlwilson

I also used to be in an electro band but we stopped doing it when it stopped being fun:
www.horacemusic.com

I know loads of musicians so we could do it in any style you like really.

Good luck with the band!

Karl

Posted by Karlmate on 07/22 at 09:13 AM

Hey Jon.
Even though I have no experience in creating music, I could animate a music video for one of the tracks produced.
Since each song will have music provided by different people, you could have different animators working on each video. Each one could have a particular colour scheme, etc.
Just an idea. (:

Good luck with this.

Posted by Sundeep Toor on 07/23 at 08:58 AM

my main concern is in your illustration at the top of the page you have set the mike to either record the character’s testes knocking together in some percussive manner or simply the passing of wind...either way this is a highly unorthodox recording technique...i have a HND in Audio Production and would very happily offer my help as Production Counsltant....

Posted by The Hiphopapotamus on 07/26 at 08:04 AM

Hi Jon! This is a fantastic idea! i’ve been playing various instruments and making funky-electronic-sonic-doodles with computers for a few years now, and i’d like to join the band because i’m painty-doodly kind of artist as well, and your work is a big inspiration to my music and art! You can listen to some recent choons at…

http://myspace.com/corticyte

or my slightly sillier techno-madness at

http://myspace.com/thetransistorparadox

enjoy! i’d love to help! Cheers!

http://uploaded.to/?id=urnlhn

download high-quality mp3’s from that link!

Posted by Jim Hippy on 08/06 at 05:52 PM

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