Song A Day

Song A Day is many things. It's about time. I measure the days by songs. Song A Day is a journal. It is quite literally a record of my creative life. Song A Day can be a burden, a joy, a challenge, a bore - all at the same time. Above all, Song A Day is an invitation to make stuff. Sometimes it's good stuff, sometimes it's bad stuff, but the making is the most important part. At the height of the 2008 financial crash. I was unemployed. I decided to try to write a song every day in January. By the end of the month, I was having so much fun (and I was still unemployed), I aimed for a year. At the end of 2009, I made the project indefinite. As of now, on the cusp of Year 14, I hold the Guinness World Record for “Most Consecutive Days Writing a Song.” For the first few years of the project, I made my living entering online video contests. I'd enter 12 contests in 12 days, win one or two of them, and that would be my income for the month. As time went on, I started cobbling together a living from many different sources: Patreon, YouTube ads, streaming revenue, commissions, playing at conferences, writing themes songs and much more. It's always been my dream to make Song A Day itself my sole source of income. Now, thanks to you, and this DAO, that's finally a possibility.