drew, Do you mean can I pitch shift it and put it on-key, or do you mean can I translate it into melody and have someone who can sing sing it? The former would be trickier than the latter. Would be willing to set up a private area (wiki-type thing) of my website for "band members" to upload and download stuff until we get a finished "product" together. Am totally willing to work under a free and open Copyleft license for this project if others are as well. Let's do it! It could be really neat. Wednesday would be a good day for me to set up the private area of the site. Who's in? On Nov 10, 2007 8:22 PM, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I haven't had very good luck doing collaboration via email and ftp; it seems to go much smoother and be a lot more fun live with everyone in the same room, but I'm willing to try. > > I'd imagine that linux audio geeks will have have more tools in common than musical styles or goals in common, but that might result in some very interesting music indeed. > > Then again, we probably all use a pretty diverse suite of tools too. What would the lingua franca be? An Ardour project? Ogg or wavpack files? MIDI files? > > Would communication be over email? Via IRC or Jabber or something more real-time-like? > > My stuff is here: http://www.restivo.org/blog/ > > - -ken > - -------------- > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:12:14AM -0500, drew Roberts wrote: > > On Friday 09 November 2007 17:12:16 Charles Linart wrote: > > > A virtual LAU band would be super cool. If anybody wants to lay > > > something down, I'd be happy to lay something (guitar, bass, "singing" > > > oft-described as "Dylanesque", rapping) on top or underneath it. > > > > If you all are willing to do stuff under a Free copyleft license, I have words > > and will write more as well. > > > > Right now, I am using various versions of the CC BY-SA licenses, but am happy > > to find evaluate / test others as well. > > > > Charles, do you have the ability to listen to someone who can't sing, try to > > sing and then make something of that? > > > > all the best, > > > > drew > > > > > > On Nov 9, 2007 3:31 PM, Svend-Erik K Madsen <sv-e(a)sv-e.dk> wrote: > > > > Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > > > > > On 9 November 2007 at 6:57, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote: > > > > >> Nice players too, I'd love to have access to a drummer like > > > > >> that. Apparently I live in a Forbidden Zone for decent > > > > >> drummers, all of them here think John Bonham was subtle. :( > > > > > > > > > > You might reside in a Forbidden Zone, but here on LAU there are a > > > > > a lot of folks who can play well. I've thought it would be fun to > > > > > have a virtual collaboration with Linux using musicians. My > > > > > instrument happens to be drums, and my style is all over the map, > > > > > hopefully to fit the style of whichever players I'm with or the song > > > > > being played. The last stuff I finished was 3 tunes with Kevin > > > > > Ferguson, specificly: > > > > > > > > > > Liberation (straight ahead rock?) > > > > > http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/kevinferguson3-01.m3u > > > > > > > > > > Awaiting the Past (bluesy) > > > > > http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/kevinferguson3-09.m3u > > > > > > > > > > Mayday Macedonia (Balkan dance tune in 27/16 and phrygian mode) > > > > > http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/kevinferguson3-15.m3u > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > When time permits (I'm involved in 3 part-time projects now, plus a > > > > > day job, plus a family -- I'm sure folks here can relate) I'd really > > > > > like to do some music with other LAU people. Is there a better place > > > > > to meet than the LAU list to discuss this? If so, just let me know > > > > > where. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks.... > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > > > > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > > > > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > > > > > > Hi Kevin > > > > > > > > I'll be glad to play some licks in your virtual band if you fancy my > > > > style, take a listen here at your own risk : > > > > > > > > *http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=456274* > > > > > > > > > > > > /Sv-e > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > > > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > > > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > > > > !DSPAM:4734db6e38191804284693! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHOPnje8HF+6xeOIcRAqg9AJ9pRU4V3mV/un5/kciv7tYbTQ5zhQCfdToO zkM5P6kG6LlI7w4i2kxiJLg= =Ti+3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----