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 > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
