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Sometime last month I started writing ringtones for my friends on Facebook. It got out of hand, which is to say that it became a hobby. Except that I don’t really do hobbies very well. I’m not a person that often has casual interests…it’s usually full-blown obsessions for as long as they last.
But in this case, it’s nice to have a outlet for songwriting. I’ve been writing songs since I was an early teenager, but it’s never been a focus of mine. Songwriting has been a side-effect of a life in music, a straggler without nowhere else to go that has followed along for the ride. Recently I’ve just had the itch more than normal.
I’ll tell you why I like the medium – you have to fit a good song, a plot, and a character into 30 seconds. It’s a challenge. What I’m trying to do is write real songs, not just dinkety-dinkety midi files for a phone. You know how Ben Folds writes wonderful little vignettes and songs about people? He is like a portrait painter with his songs – it’s so effective. So what if you could fit that Ben Folds kind of portrait songwriting into 30 second clips and call them ringtones?
I’ve made a site to hold the ringtones:
It’s up and running. I feed the recordings into SoundCloud, which makes the little players, then upload the ringtones into Myxer.com, where I can sell them.
