Dan Wilson Music

Singer, Songwriter, Collaborator

Words & Music in Six Seconds Vine Series

People often ask me for songwriting advice or to share methods that have helped me in my own songwriting. And for a while now I’ve been looking for various interesting ways to share these ideas with other creative people. When I saw screenwriter and director Brian Koppelman’s Six Second Screenwriting series on Vine, I was inspired to start creating my own. So, in recent months I’ve been making my own Words & Music in Six Seconds vine series. I don’t post them every day, but whenever I’m inspired I’ll share a thought or idea about my own creative process. Here’s one of these vine clips to give you a flavor:

 

Note: hover over the video and click the unmute button in the bottom right corner to hear the clip!

 

Where do you store your ideas?

Recent Radio Sessions

Dan Wilson - FUV Live - 2014

Live at WFUV

Listen to the full interview and watch videos of Dan’s performances of “Your Brighter Days” and “Love Without Fear” here: Dan Wilson – FUV Live – 2014 

 

Dan Wilson on BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 with Dermot O’Leary

Listen to Dan’s full interview and performances of “A Song Can Be About Anything” and “All Will Be Well” here: Dan Wilson on BBC Radio 2

 

Dan Wilson on World Cafe

NPR’s World Cafe

Listen to Dan’s performances and interview with NPR’s David Dye, here: Dan Wilson on World Cafe

#ASongCanBeAboutAnything Project!

I have a new “A Song Can Be About Anything” project to share with you: In celebration of the release of my new album ‘Love Without Fear’ (which includes “A Song Can Be About Anything”) we’re going to create something cool together. One of the things I love most about songwriting is that you can write about absolutely anything you like. And sometimes the weirdest “subjects” make for the greatest songs.

So here’s what I’d like you to do: on two pieces of paper, make two signs. The first sign will say “A Song Can Be About Anything” and the second sign will describe what your dream song would be about: it could be a phrase, a drawing, a symbol, somebody’s name. Then either upload a video (15 seconds or less) to instagram of you holding your signs, or upload two still photos of you holding the signs to your instagram, facebook, or twitter. Make sure you tag me in your post and hashtag your video or photos with #asongcanbeaboutanything and #danwilsonlovewithoutfear. When we’re done, we’ll put all of our videos together to make one big video telling all of our stories. And I’ll send a signed copy of my new album to the “best” 5 entries. The deadline to submit is Thursday, June 5th! Here’s an example I made to get us started. Can’t wait to see what we come up with!

P.S. – if you’re having trouble or are unsure how to submit via instagram, twitter or facebook. Please email your submissions to danwilsonmail@gmail.com