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From The Desk Of The Rentals’ Matt Sharp: Artists In Residence

mattsharplogobThe multimedia Songs About Time is an ongoing project from the Rentals, the revolving-door band founded 15 years ago by then Weezer bassist Matt Sharp. Songs About Time finds Sharp and Co. collaborating with a cast of about 50 filmmakers, designers, producers, editors and artists. They began this year-long experiment January 1 and have since made a new black-and-white film every week, not to mention documenting the process with a daily photo diary and recording three mini-albums. (All of this content can be found on the band’s website.) As if Sharp wasn’t busy enough, he is also guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read his introduction.

AIRboxSharp: Jeff Anderson started the company Artists In Residence in 1854. Actually, that’s not true. I have no idea when A+R started. What do I know? What I know is this: Before we started working on Songs About Time with Artists In Residence, the work Jeff had done with Nine Inch Nails had already had a profound impact on me. That project really helped me start to break my own conventional ideas of what releasing music had to be like. After seeing one of the limited-edition copies of Ghosts for the first time, I could really feel the endless possibilities of new ideas open up. A+R also works with the Pixies (Minotaur is pictured above), Beck and Sigur Rós.