Online Music Collaboration
digitalmusician.net "... the place where the international music business community (musicians and producers) meets and works on joint projects. Our technologies offer you, for example, the possibility to find and sell music jobs via the Internet. This way you can further your career without even leaving your studio. You can:
- Make professional contacts worldwide
- Find music jobs and make money
- Record songs together with other members without travel or hotel costs
- Choose music projects that you would like to work on
- Find suitable partners for your projects (using the „Studio & Artists“ database)
- Place „adverts“ for your own services and sell them..."
Kompoz ".... is a social workspace for musicians and songwriters. Got an idea for a song? Record a track. Upload it. Then invite others to add drums, bass, vocals or anything else!..."
Musicollaborate ".... is a free website for musicians and songwriters.
Everything here is provided to help you form successful music project collaborations.
Bringing musicians together in a community of on-line music collaboration...."
Online Music Collaboration Articles
Online collaboration services let you work with anyone, anywhere. ".... Thanks to the growth of broadband, today's musicians can share
digital audio files and utilize Web-based audio-and-video communication
technology to create a virtual studio environment with others in remote
locations. These days, many musicians independently engage in online
collaboration, especially for session work. All that's needed is a
reasonably fast connection and a bit of file-transfer savvy.
Sensing a business opportunity in facilitating online collaboration, an increasing number of Web-based companies have emerged, offering a wide variety of services and features ranging from the hiring of session musicians to social networking to two-way MIDI programming, online jamming, live-band showcases, and more..." CLICK HERE for the rest of this excellent article.
Electronic Musician talks to synth-pop and music technology icon Thomas Dolby who is among the musicians involved with online collaboration. ".... we'll embark on a new album project, recorded totally off the grid — that is, using only renewable energy sources. On it, he plans to use eSession to record remotely with a host of musicians in various locales.... "
".... ESession's model is an offline one, where files are worked on
independently and sent back and forth. Do you prefer that to real-time
online collaboration, which can have latency issues?..."
"Yes, and I don't think we'll ever get around those latency issues, certainly not in this Internet generation. But as far as collaboration goes, a couple of things are key: the first is that there's really no substitute to two or more people sitting in the room, running the track, listening to it, and having a shared experience. All the best producers I know have an ability to become the audience and then respond to that by saying, “We need a bit more of this and a bit more of that.” I'm not even talking about jamming; I'm talking about the process of production in layers. Once you've had that experience and you have established a rapport, it's just fine to work remotely. I think live phone calls or videoconferencing are really helpful as well....."
Online Music Collaboration Podcasts
Thomas Dolby Podcast Interview "... Thomas Dolby talks about online collaboration, his work with eSession,
his gear, and his plans to record his next album using only renewable
energy sources...."
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