My sympathies
i had shitty internet for years, aweful stuff.
is there an internet cafe near where you live? it may be worth making a trip there once per week to down/up/load big files.
anyway, even besides timezones, people gotta work, i got 3 mix projects ongoing and more about to come in, i bet other people have projects that need attention.
real-time collaboration would be cool in an ideal world,
but i can only guess that whatever one contributes to this project will be done in "spare time".
I think the method i suggested would be fair on everyone involved, and allow people to work at whatever pace they can, rather than having to cancel movie-night with the wife/girlfriend/boyfriend so they can jam over a (potentially) laggy internet connection.
I also think that the Ninjam method would be prone to being dominated by a handful of strong personalities, and may not allow everyone to contribute in a meaningful and artistically satisfying way.
So, pending Muckypups approval i think we should draw up a "Team Roster", which will list the collaborators for each song.
everyone gets to start a song, and everyone gets to contribute, all the while sending rough mixdowns on to each other while keeping high-res bounces of their own parts.
we could sort out some space to store the ongoing work in progress.
I'd imagine that Muckypup will want to act as co-ordinator for the entire project, and the person who "starts" each song could act as delegated "Song Captain".
At the end of the whole thing, we could even pool our money together to get some cds/vinyls printed up
just an idea, Mucky, whats your opinion?
So I won't be able to do the ninjam.Ok ,
to get the ball rolling, my first contribution,
http://www.mediafire.com/file/vteyv1inntt/ShaneK_DronePiece1.wav
24bit, 44.1kHz
A 9 minute droning Synth Bass track on which i could see a whole tune being built.
the "chord" is an A and A#, but the pitch drifts all over the place anyway.
I think we could easily build up a piece around this part.
EDIT: here is my idea for how we could go about working this project,
each member does as i have done, and creates a nice long track that could serve as the beginnings of a song,
then hand that track on to another member who adds their part and so on to the next member, each saving their own tracks for the final mixdown.
I'd imagine Muckypup will want to do the final comping and mixdown for the whole project.
that way everyone starts a track, and everyone contributes.
for example (with fake names):
Song1:
-Joe starts
-Mick adds
-Dave adds
Song 2:
-Mick starts
-Dave adds
-Joe adds
Song 3:
-Dave starts
-etc.......
Mucky could easily draw up a list of contribution sequences.
I honestly think this would be the most fair and egalitarian, and creativly open way of operating.
the Ninjam idea is also cool, but i could see that becoming a real mess very quickly, and would be hard to get any real work done.
of course, it comes down to Muckypup to decide.
Sounds like a good idea dude. Although the Ninjam idea would be good, because I have RSI I can't just play when ever I want to, like I have to wait until it calms down a bit before I can do anything. This means I can only play once or twice a week
But yeah, I think that each song having a sort of song leader could be a good thing, it would let everyone get their own style and ideas into each song.
I would like to be the project leader with this, but we should all be deciding how we do the songs, because what might be easier for me, might suck for someone else!
Could you upload an mp3 maybe?
Ok, my current MSN is - muckypup1@gmail.com
I haven't had a chance to download your piece yet, my internet isn't very good
