FAWM was also the model inspiration for the RPM Challenge, which encourages its participants to record a 10-song album.These entries from February's challenge were selected as Honorable Mentions. The FAWM Challenge is popular among participants in other timed artistic challenges, such as NaNoWriMo, Songfight, 50 Songs in 90 Days, Sounds of the Weak, National Solo Album Month (NaSoAlMo) and Album-a-Day. Fallon did not ask permission and has not released an apology, although the video of the segment has since been removed from YouTube. The song was part of a skirmish (see above) during that year's FAWM, meant only as songwriting exercise, not necessarily intended for official public release. On November 17, 2020, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ridiculed the song "Cold Wind, Warm Breeze, Hot Girls, Cool Dudes" by fawmer Michael Gutierrez-May as part of its "Do Not Play" segment. It went viral on the Internet and enjoys a certain notoriety among computer game enthusiasts. This geek rock song essentially outlines the steps to win the classic text-based computer game Zork set to ambient alternative rock music. Īnother notable collaboration is the song "Walkthrough" by fawmers Debs and Errol written during FAWM 2009 and released on their 2012 album Songs in the Key of Geek. Presidencies was released as a triple-CD set during the 2008 election season to critical acclaim. The result, titled Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. presidencies for FAWM 2006 (for a total of 42, saving the then-current President Bush for a later collaboration). Many fawmers are professional or semi-professional musicians whose FAWM-penned songs have received considerable attention.Ī notable example is a three-way collaboration between Jefferson Pitcher, Christian Kiefer, and Matthew Gerken (of the band Nice Monster), who each wrote songs about 14 U.S. Slothcore - Ambient music at a very slow tempo in 2021, fawmers created and released on Bandcamp an album of slothcore music, with proceeds going to sloth conservation efforts.įAWMers keep in contact with each other throughout the year at companion website, In Popular Culture.Fake-It Challenge - Participants create a melody for a set of lyrics and accompanying chords (inspired by fake books).Skirmish - A title/prompt is announced and songwriters must immediately write a song in the space of the next hour.Auntie Sin - Someone writes the antithesis of the first song in the chain, then the next person writes a synthesis of the first two songs, then the next person writes the antithesis of the third song, then the next person writes a synthesis of songs three and four, and so on.Feasting - Writing and recording many songs in one session in a short space of time.Explore the core - Recording several highly different versions of the same lyrics and chords.Each person in the songwriting chain must write a song based on the previous song, by changing half of it. Morphing - A songwriting equivalent of the classic game Telephone.Exquisite Corpse - A songwriting equivalent of the classic game, wherein one person writes 60 seconds of a song, then passes only the last ten seconds to the next person, who continues the song, and so on.Crucio - A songwriting game similar to tag.Strangle Disco - Dance music usually involving classical music samples.In order to spur creativity and work outside of ruts, fawmers periodically create new "genres" and challenges, such as: Each album documents the corresponding year's FAWM event, and releases were met with critical praise from indie-music magazines such as Wonkavision and PopMatters.įawmers compose music of all genres and styles, though the most prevalent are folk, indie rock, and singer-songwriter. įrom 2005 to 2010, the project also produced a compilation CD series, entitled 14 Songs In 28 Days. In the years since, collaborative songwriting has become a staple of the FAWM community. In 2008, because of a Leap Year (29 Days), the ante was upped to 14½ songs - the extra half-song being a songwriting collaboration. Registered users may post demo recordings of their new songs to keep track of their progress and elicit feedback. Each of them met or surpassed the 14-song goal, with 66 songs total.ĭue to expressed interest from songwriters who stumbled upon the FAWM 2004 archive, the challenge was opened up to the public in February 2005 at FAWM.ORG, where the challenge has remained since. Since all four so-called "fawmers" lived in different time zones, they used a blog to track their progress and encourage one another.
He recruited three friends to join him in attempting to compose 14 new songs during the month.
FAWM began in February 2004 as a personal project of singer-songwriter Burr Settles, who was inspired after completing a short novel for NaNoWriMo.
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