November 27, 2005

My Virtual Band Collaborations

Administrator wrote this around lunchtime:

Now, I will let you hear some examples of collaborations I participated in on My Virtual Band. For my first example, I would like to walk you through the process of collaboration on MVB. Since MVB is an asynchronous collaboration platform, there are various versions of the recording throughout the collaboration life-time.

A typical interaction on the MVB bulletin board goes like this:

  • -Person A starts a new thread on the MVB bulletin board, posting a link to a single track

  • -Person B downloads that track, imports the track into his/her recording software, and records 1 or more of his own tracks along with the original.

  • -Person B then posts a mix of the original track and his/her tracks.

  • -Person B also posts the individual tracks that he recorded. For example, if he added drums and a bass line to the original track, he would post the drum track and the bass track separately as well. This allows future collaborators the option of using Person B’s bass line, or adding their own.

  • -Person C downloads all of the individual tracks, and adds his own, continuing the collaboration cycle.

For example, on June 28th, Bryan starts a new thread on the MVB bulletin board. He posts this little track of him playing acoustic guitar.

Tall_1.mp3

One day later, on June 29th, Mullr adds a bass line to the original guitar track, and posts both his mix of the two, and a track that contains only the bass line that he added.

Tall-bass.mp3
Tall-mix1.mp3

Then, on November 5th, over four months later, drumkey87 adds piano and drums, posting both a mix of all of the instruments, and the individual tracks that he contributed.
talldrumkeymix.mp3
Piano.mp3
HiHat.mp3
Kick.mp3
Snare.mp3

Seven days later, on November 12th, I add a little lead guitar track.

Tall_lerbleMix.mp3
Tall_lerble_guitarOnly.mp3

You can view the message board thread for this collaboration here.
Some other collaborations that show off what is possible on MVB are as follows:

Ruby-martyMix1.mp3
Silentshoutnewremix1.mp3
Jazzy-marty-mix2.mp3

All of the audio in this post is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.

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One Response to “My Virtual Band Collaborations”

  1. Drummer.it Says:
    January 29th, 2006 at 7:39 am

    HERE’S MY EXPERIENCE IN ON INTERNET MUSIC COLLABORATIONS SINCE 2000:

    Funkdawgs (fan’kdaags) n. US slang.

    1. A virtual band comprised of talented musicians from planet Earth that have found a common groove and freedom to create in the jazz-funk/fusion scene.

    2. Jazz musicians that collaborate in the virtual realm by sending recorded wave files through cyberspace via the internet to develop infectious instrumental compositions.

    3 Contemporary musicians who feel a heavy jazz-funk vibe, occupy the same creative headspace and spend considerable late hours in home-based recording studios….

    You can’t surf our waves but you can groove to our funky rhythms….FUNKDAWGS

    Funkdawgs produce music exclusively via the internet and record for many musicians around the world… more than 100 collaborations to thei credit with artists from all around the world (via internet)

    ...On line band since 2000….

    AND AGAIN VISIT CARL EICHMAN WEB SITE FOR MY COLLABORATIONS WITH HIM WWW.CEEMUSIC.COM

    Drummer.it main site at www.drummer.it

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