[linux-audio-user] Free Music Factory

[james at dis-dot-dat.net]

On Wed, 15 Mar, 2006 at 05:04PM -0500, Thomas Vecchione spake thus:
> >One point about the whole idea that I REALLY LIKE is the idea of
> >collaboration on a much broader basis.  I think it is so cool when
> >people post a drum track and say, "Could someone add a bass track to
> >this?  I'm no good at bass..."  Or maybe define a general direction
> >and mood for the song to go into, and whoever wants to get on board is
> >welcome.  Then you would have musicians who actually _want_ to play
> >this music helping out with the recording of a song.
> 
> 
> Well so far in this thread, this seems like the most worthwhile thing to 
> respond to, as others have already stated my opinions, no sense 
> repeating them at this point in time.
> 
> I find this idea very intriguing...  Would people be interested if a 
> place to post up a track or two was put on the web, so others could 
> listen to it, and post up another track on their instrument of choice, 
> and build like that?  Could create an entire CD of completely random 
> artists.

Oh, yes!  I once had a record called endlesnessism, which started with
one track and was remixed in the second, by another artist.  This was
then remixed by another artist and this was then...

A whole moving remix across an album, with loads of people involved.

It was pretty crap, actually, but a nice idea.

I'm sure we could do something good with collaboration like you
suggest.  Off you go and start us off...
 
> Of course then you get things like, how to express a vision when there 
> isn't as much collaboration/agreement on it from the start.

If each person is free to push however they want...

We might just end up with a whole family of songs rather than one.

> Just ideas floating around in my head now, but it would be fun(And I 
> might be willing to look into doing it) to put up a musical forum of 
> sorts where people post up tracks, and possibly their vision for them, 
> for others to listen to, get inspired, and post up, and then possibly 
> have the engineers on the lsit come through and mix the entire thing 
> together, creating many different individual mixes possibly?
> 
> Ideas Ideas...  Now its time for someone to come back and post, this has 
> been done you idiot, we talked about it two days ago where were you?;)

I think it has, in some form, but I never got around to playing with it.

> 
>        Seablade
> 

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