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Global Collaborative Music Experiment

Posted by kdawson on from the mixing-it-up dept.

hephaist0s writes "Last year, 165 bands completed the RPM Challenge: to record an original album (10 songs or 35 minutes) during the 28 days of February. The idea is to get musicians to set aside the barriers that stop them from working on their music and simply devote a month to getting it done. This year, more than 300 bands from around the world — including two groups from McMurdo station in Antarctica — have already signed up at www.rpmchallenge.com, and this time the organizers of the challenge have built into the site the ability for bands to share samples with each other. If a band chooses to upload a sample into the Sample Engine, then any other participating group can use it however they like. The possibilities for global collaboration are vast!"

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  1. Like NaNoWriMo by Form-o-Stuff · · Score: 4, Informative

    Kindof like National Novel Writing Month (november). http://www.nanowrimo.org/ And Channel 101 (5 minute videos monthly) http://www.channel-101.com/ The internet's becoming a seasonal support group for artists lacking impetus. Now if only there was a way for these independent producers to make money off their labor...

  2. RPM is pretty much the same as FAWM.org by RumGunner · · Score: 3, Informative

    February Album Writing Month > RPM. RPM is about recording, whereas FAWM is about actually writing quality material, much like NaNoWriMo.org. Since FAWM encourages their participants to record and upload their songs at the same time, I don't really see the point of RPM.

  3. Hrmmph, submission grousing. by t0qer · · Score: 4, Informative

    I submitted this a looong time ago....

    Justin Frankel, you know, wrote winamp? Sold Winamp? Well, he wrote this program called Ninjam that allows folks to collaborate music in psuedo real time.

    http://www.ninjam.com/

    He also wrote a DAW (digital audio workstation) called reaper.

    http://www.reaper.fm/

    as well as a programable software DSP called Jesusonic

    http://www.jesusonic.com/

    This all started circa 2004 or so. Justin has set up some public Ninjam servers, and everything played on these servers is released under the Creative Commons License...

    http://autosong.ninjam.com/

    Point being, I probably submitted this quite a few times over the years. Don't understand why slashdot would ignore a story about someone who pretty much revolutionized how we listen to music. Time for slash to get new editors again.

  4. Don't forget the audio interface! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    When you get your MIDI keyboard (E-mu Xboard is pretty nice for what it costs), don't forget a soundcard that supports ASIO, otherwise you'll hit a key and wait a second for the softsynth to kick in with sound.

  5. What RPM stands for by Cow+Jones · · Score: 5, Informative

    In case you were wondering (like me) what RPM stands for in this context, it's "Record Production Month" (says so in the last paragraph on the linked page).

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