Re: [LAU] Hardware synths (This is the snippet)

On Friday 07 December 2007 17:14:12 Folderol wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:30:47 -0800
>
> Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:12:06PM +0000, Folderol wrote:
> > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:42:35 -0800
> > >
> > > Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:33:56AM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > > > > david wrote:
> > > > > > Like right now:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "Sorry, this GeoCities site is currently unavailable.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've mirrored it here:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.mega-nerd.com/tmp/p88warmpadTest.mp3
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll keep it up for at least a week.
> > > >
> > > > Wow, that resonant note that seems to emerge out of the high notes,
> > > > is really sweet.
> > > >
> > > > -ken
> > >
> > > Well all these samples and trial bits has sparked an idea.
> > >
> > > Demo is now about a minute long :)
> > >
> > > http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Demo.mp3
> > > http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Demo.ogg
> > >
> > > I don't yet know where I'll go with it, or what I'll call it, but I
> > > think it has promise.
> >
> > Beautiful!
>
> Thank you :)
>
> > I am hearing some kind of a kicking breakbeat behind that! Is it played
> > to a click track? If so, what's the tempo?
>
> Tempo is 120bpm. Time sig. is 4/4 and each phrase spreads across 4 bars.
>
> > If you wouldn't mind me desecrating it in that way, then I'd love it if
> > you could license it BY-SA and post it to the Linux Audio Collaboration
> > project site.
> >
> > http://lau-cb.peterlutek.com/readme.html
> >
> > -ken
>
> All my work is BY-SA. Sometimes I add NC to stuff I especially want to
> protect, but not to a part finished clip like this.
>
> So far I've extended it to 2 minutes, but haven't put that version up
> yet as I not quite happy with one of the later progressions.

Something to consider:

In "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" Eric Raymond puts forward the notion
of "Release Early, Release Often"

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html

Now, I see a lot of artists seemingly afraid of this and even advice not to
let the world see things before they are polished.

I wonder if that advice might have been OK for the "all rights reserved" way
of doing things but that we may gain from a release early, release often way
of working in the world of art if we are working with Free licenses.

I know it can be intimidating to let people see draft quality work, but aren't
artists supposed to be risk takers? (I know because I put out daily progress
when I do NaNoWriMo and if anything is likely to be of sub par quality, that
is right there in the running I can tell you.

Could it not be that your rough work might inspire someone to make a better
finished work than you ever could with a particular piece where your finished
piece would not provide similar inspiratoin?

(Ouch - I lost a good thought while I was writing down that last point... I
hate it when that happens. The brain gets two thoughts at once but by the
time you finish recording the first, the second has managed to evaporate...)

>
> I'm happy for anyone to develop on top of this, but am reluctant to put
> it up on the collaboration site, for fear of diluting the site - there
> already seem to be several 'starts' that don't seem to have much being
> added to them :(

I have been thinking about this as well. Along the same lines interestingly
enough.

I seem to remember somewhere reading about some fail early, fail often
strategy and I think that might be relevant here.

Might it be that putting up a lot of possibilities and hoping for a one in ten
or one in a undreg success rate might prove more productive than trying to
make something of every thing someone puts up? I welcome thoughts along both
of these lines.

all the best,

drew

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