All Nighter is FORM's flagship event and compilation album series. In this 24-hour challenge, musicians and visual artists submit tracks and album covers they've made within the allotted 24-hour time limit. At the end, we collect around 45 carefully selected submissions into one compilation, hold a community vote to determine the final cover, and then release it on all streaming platforms to raise money for a designated charity.
AUGUST 10-11, 2024
AUGUST 12-13, 2023
AUGUST 6-7, 2022
FEBRUARY 6-7, 2021
AUGUST 8-9, 2020
FEBRUARY 22-23, 2020
AUGUST 9-10, 2019
FEBRUARY 2-3, 2019
AUGUST 5-6, 2018
In similar fashion to the All Nighter series, any%—named after a term used in video game speedrunning—is an 18-hour challenge for both musicians and visual artists. Musicians are tasked with creating songs between 50 and 70 seconds long; visual artists are tasked with designing a striking piece of cover art and its supporting graphics. The final compilation is a Bandcamp and SoundCloud exclusive.
The STORYBOOK series is a semi-blind multimedia collaboration, where each group contains one writer, up to six musicians, and 2-3 visual artists. The writer has one week to create and polish a short story in any form of their choosing. The musicians collaborate during the following two-week period, producing a song to complement the writer's story and plot. During the final week, visual artists interpret the song and story in order to create a meaningful and beautiful piece of cover art for the final compilation's release. After the songs have been blindly delivered to the writers to give them track titles, each chapter of STORYBOOK is released on all streaming platforms to raise money for a designated charity. Only after the compilation's release does each group of creatives learn who their fellow collaborators were.
As one of FORM's only physical media-related events, FORMZINE encourages all visual artists to design a single page or two-page spread of a physical magazine (roughly 6" x 9" in size). Submissions are open for one month. The zine consists of a broad and exciting range of creations: visual art, thinkpieces, poetry, sheet music, and much more. An abridged version is compiled, exported, and sent to print in a limited quantity. Both the limited edition physical FORMZINE and the digital PDF are sold to raise money for a designated charity.
FEBRUARY—MARCH 2024
FEBRUARY—MARCH 2022
FORM has hosted a number of live events, both online and in-person. From events like FORM FAIR, a pre-recorded series of digital presentations including both musical performances and multimedia creative showcases and tutorials, to a sold-out concert in the heart of Seattle showcasing six artists from our community, the community is always at the forefront.
As the name implies, TELEPHONE is a musical game of Telephone. Musicians begin working on a track, and when their three-hour work time is up, they blindly pass the project file onto their next collaborator. Each participant is completely anonymous; only during the album's release are the names of every collaborator revealed. Shortly after the event's conclusion, participants of TELEPHONE came back together to, without the extra steps and fuzzy connection, remix their original tracks. TELEPHONE: REDIALED was released a month later. All proceeds from the releases in the TELEPHONE series were donated to The Trevor Project.
Between larger operations like All Nighter and FORM FEST, smaller, more casual events exist throughout FORM's history. Art prompt challenges, graphic design competitions, and limited music releases keep the community engaged and excited about making the art they love.
OCTOBER 2021
FEBRUARY—MARCH 2019
SEPTEMBER—NOVEMBER 2018
