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“Ten songs, or 35 minutes of original music, created during the month of February. The RPM Challenge<\/a>.”<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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RPM Challenge is a month long event that takes place in February each year to challenge musicians in recording an album’s worth of all original music.<\/h4>\n

This year I’ve decided to accept the challenge. For the last 6 months I’ve been working on an historic family history project that consists of\u00a0“Imagined DNA Portraits”<\/a>\u00a0painted to represent each Dorsey male that I descend from for the last 200 years.\u00a0As a long time student of genealogy, my idea was to include a\u00a0musical soundtrack for each man’s portrait, to\u00a0tell more of his story, based on an immense amount of documented information that I have researched and collected for over 20 years.\u00a0When I caught wind\u00a0of the RPM Challenge, I wanted to\u00a0do it, so I signed up.<\/p>\n

I’ve written\u00a08\u00a0individual soundtracks, one for each of my ancestors (and myself) who’s stories are being\u00a0told through my imagined interpretation of what I know of their lives, their wives, and their experiences. When I picture myself in their shoes, telling my story and theirs to my great-grandchildren, I want the next generation\u00a0to have a greater understanding of where they come from and who their family is and who they were. I want them to know that this is what it sounds like.<\/p>\n