Music Collaboration over the Internet
I've embarked on an experiment with a friend - we are writing music together over the internet. This is a first for the 2 of us and it has proven to be less speedy then writing if you were in the same city - which I suppose isn't all that surprising. Another twist is that we are not sending each other finished songs that require say a guitar solo or that sort of thing. We are starting the songs off with a riff, and evolving it organically - sending it back and forth.
How is it working?
Well, we check in weekly using Skype and email to track the progress of things.
We use a shared folder that we both have write and read access to - a service called Dropbox (www.getdropbox.com) to post the update files to.
The cool thing about dropbox is that if I make a change and he has his computer on, his Dropbox icon will note that there is a change and in what file and he can pretty much immediately check out what I posted.
Since I'm a techy at heart, I'm enjoying the whole techy aspect of this project.
Perhaps if anything decent comes out of it I may have some sound samples to post in the Media section. For now it's a fun process and we will see how thigns evolve.
Steve
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