I haven’t seen any threads relating to member collaborations, so let’s start one here.
If you suffer from incomplete songs as much as I do, why don’t we do pass are projects along to each other?
Preliminary ground rules:
(Member input needed)
1.) Always give artist//member credit and site accordingly
2.) Link all uploaded sites back to operator-1.com
Would anyone be into this?
I’d be keen to give it a try
the question is… who will begin?
I’ll probably upload some tracks on Dropbox to get things rolling. What would be the best format for everyone?
funny I was thinking localized collaborations… I still have not forgotten the meet up stuff I am looking into that. But this is more if people jam and develop together more production might come out of it.
Rules? only one… respect!
i’m game.
Must be zeitgeist, because I was just thinking yesterday, if I win another battle I was going to force collaborations on all the combatants, lol.
P.S. One time, over on iCompositions.com, we did an event called “inappropriate artist collaborations” Anyone interested put their name in a hat and the curator paired you with someone whose musical style was totally different than yours. I got paired with a guy who added bluesy accoustic guitar and vocals to a track bed I gave him with synths and beats. It was very cool IMO (you can listen here: http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=80928 ). So, I highly recommend people work on some collabs here. I think the results are always fresh directions we’d never go on our own.
There was an attempt at a collaboration on ohpeewon a long time ago. People each got one tape track to work with and passed it on. It was a bit chaotic in that one person might try to cram a whole song on one tape track and leave little room on the other three tracks. I tried one, adding layers to someone else’s ideas. I passed it on and never saw it change or evolve. I don’t think any of the tracks made it past their second home. Not to dump on this idea- I like it and gave it a try before- but we might just need some more focused rules or time frames.
Good point @lymtronics even though 5 pairs completed their tracks on iComp, the person running the competition never followed up, closed the voting, or announced a winner. It seemed so anticlimactic.
I also like the idea and would be interested to give it a go.
Perhaps it might work if somebody had an unfinished track and a rough idea about the direction they wanted it to go with it. Then they could appeal to the community and say “I’ve got some rocking drums here but am having a hard time adding melodic elements” or “I’ve got an instrumental backing track and would love to hear how it might sound with some vocals”.
I’ll take some rocking drums, please!
i think you’re probably right in the engagement thing, it’s a bit of a beast to control I guess. But yeah, I’m up for some collaborations. I like the name in the hat idea too. maybe chuck in a randomly picked theme or rule too?!
I mostly do ambienty/berlin schooly sort of stuff, though as the Christmas compilation shows not always heh. I’m in the middle of working on a track for the next Ambient Online album, so I’m not too sure how much I’d be available until late August/early September.
And I might not even make that seeing how I have a wedding coming up >.>Yes! The ideas are starting to trickle out now. I’m open to having these collabs move in several directions, but for my purposes I think it would be more simple to work in small teams. Then what if we did team battles?
@tribrix thanks for that link, I’ll definitely be checking that out.
Lol teambattles how awesome. National teams, intercontinental teams, genre teams. Sounds awesome. I hope there will be some oldschool three round back and forth battles. Quite excited