Re: [linux-audio-user] Free Music Factory

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:04:11 -0500
Thomas Vecchione <seablaede@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> > 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?;)
>
>
> Seablade

Being serious for a moment (unusual for me), what I would really like
would be to lay down (say) a MIDI track that someone else could add a
bit to, but, most importantly, keep it in an editable form so I could
then re-jig my bit, or someone else could come along and add something
else etc.

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