Kristallinodasos has earlier shared his interesting ideas about creating music through groupware software in our blog and I thought I could share some of my thoughts concerning the subject.
I have recorded recorded my own music with my computer for about 15 years now. Creating a musical piece from scratch is a rewarding process, but making arrangements for different instruments can also be very exhausting and sometimes utterly frustrating. I have often thought that it would be great if there was some sort of a bank of independent musicians on the Internet. For example: If you need a violin player for your project, you could search for available violists, share people your backing tracks so they could freely jam on them. After playing people could send their freshly recorded instrument tracks back to you. All you then have to do is to select one of these tracks, import that track into your project and maybe write a positive review about all of those musicians who were kind enough to play for your project. I have myself shared my guitar and bass tracks on some internet forums, and based on that experience I know I would sign up for that kind of a service.
This daydreaming is in fact inspired by one specific case of collaborative creation of music, which points out how seamlessly people with different cultural backgrounds can create something that is purely genious. Playing For Change (http://www.playingforchange.com/) is a "multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music". They believe that music has a special power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. I share their thoughts on that matter and I really do think that there is a demand for a service/software I described earlier. This project doesn't have a a musician database on the internet, they do their work in the streets and display creations on their site. I think this video will explain it better than I ever could:
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