Nat “funnelbc”, creator of the CDM logo and graphic appearance, took on a project the rest of us at Team CDM thought was completely insane: make 28 gig posters, in 28 days, for free.

Miraculously, Nat has escaped alive, and the results are fantastic. Good luck paying a designer to give you gig posters like this. These two warm my heart because of their digital music create-i-ness:

Day 27, Tsuki

28×28 Day 17 - Moulinex + Xinobi

For the complete set, see the lineup on onetonnemusic:

Gig Posters Archives

Have a gig coming up? Need a rocking poster to publicise said gig to the wider community? You should check out Nat’s 28 Posters in 28 Days Poster Challenge! You know you’re going to get a great result, because Nat designed this here website, and CDMo, and the forums. You should get in quick, however, because he doesn’t seem to be starting out in the most positive frame of mind:

They said I couldn’t do it! My girlfriend said I couldn’t do it. I don’t think I can do it… Let me preface this by saying that I have a sneaking suspicion that this isn’t one of my brightest ideas. Good? Clear? Okay.

For the month of February, I am going to attempt to do 1 FREE gig poster per day.

That means I need details for 28 gigs and bands who want posters done. Starting tomorrow, the 1st of February. 

I couldn’t be more proud to share this one: over a year in the making, my book Real World Digital Audio is now hitting shelves:

Real World Digital Audio [Official Book Site]

I launched this project with Peachpit Press because we wanted to compress the broad range of skills you need to master music production with computers — from synthesizing sounds to recording to producing scores to DJing and playing live — into a single book. There are superb books out there on individual topics and individual tools, but I found many of the general books were either out-of-date, had limited coverage of computers, or assumed too much about what you already knew.

Of course, as the production deadline slipped back from January to March, to June, to August, to October, I realized just how big a challenge this would be. Thankfully, there are some incredibly patient people at Peachpit Press, particularly my production editor Cary Norsworthy, who supported the project even as it grew in scope, size, and schedule.)

(More on the book after the jump)

Sorry to disappoint you, but Real World Digital Audio will not be a new MTV reality show where participants live together in a boozed-up recording studio for a few months and have “issues” with their fellow audio engineers. Though I’m still holding out hope for that.

No, Real World Digital Audio is my long-delayed book for Peachpit Press . . . and if you’ve noticed I’ve gotten increasingly flaky keeping CDM together, especially this week, the good news is I’m finally finishing the manuscript this week. Expect a party afterwards — and more on the book itself, once I can share a bit more. Most importantly: this book will be out by the end of the year.

Anyway, think we can rip off the image shown here for the cover?