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This Short Doc About A Magnetic Tape Fanatic Will Break Your Heart. Acoustic Guitar Project Aims to Fill the World With Song. Sometimes, less truly is more. If you don't believe this adage, then you haven't yet heard of The Acoustic Guitar Project. Few have. On a whim in April 2012, the project's founder, Dave Adams, decided to equip one of his many musician friends with an acoustic guitar and a handheld recorder. Adams told his friend to take a week to write and record a song, using only the provided equipment. When the week was over, he instructed the songwriter to sign the guitar with a magic marker and pass it off, with the same instructions, to another musician. Adams' guitar, an acoustic Takamine, has been traveling around New York City since April, providing the foundation for what has become known as The Acoustic Guitar Project. "I just wanted to create something that gave people permission to create something raw," Adams tells Mashable.

On the New Year's Eve leading into 2012, Adams drunkenly told his friends that his resolution was to quit his job and work on an artistic project. More Music to Come. Mouse Operated Instrument. Best Indie Albums - motel de moka. Creating any ‘best of list‘ is always problematic, not only aesthetic judgement employed but also its effect. Often, a credible enough list can defeat the original point of a list, a bit like reciting unmentionable magic spell. The secret magic is broken the minute it is made public. That is the case with early indie list in the 80′s when often cited innovative indie bands ultimately transformed, became part of major labels and fueled the most profitable era of recording industry. All this could easily be a silly weekend musing about economics, rebellion, love, and freedom were it not for current popular music scene. What is now the last four remaining major labels (Universal, Sony, Warner Music, EMI) control some 80% of global market share in 2005 (1) and very much dictate how mass entertainment is presented.

Things should change.But despite all that, this is not meant to be gloriously noble list. The 60′s 001. The 70′s 019. The 80′s 041. The 90′s 058. The 00′s 107. The 10′s 164. Blind 15 Year Old Plays Dubstep On Piano After One Listen. The Movie Sounds Page - Your link to the worlds BEST movie audio files and sound clips!