Create a Networked Composition or Mashup - Digging Deeper

Create a Networked Composition or Mashup

Step 1: Look at some examples of networked compositions on the internet. Check these out.

Step 2: Through your social networks, find some geographically-diverse friends who want to collaborate on a musical composition.

Step 3:
Have a meeting to decide on the direction of the composition. Use IM or other tools to meet with your friends to decide on the direction of the composition.

Step 4:
Use audio or video conferencing to perform the composition, and record the composition from the internet. Try:

Skype
Oovoo
Tokbox

Alternatively, have your participants recording their parts separately, and then combine them later.

Step 5:
Edit and mix the recording into a new piece. Put each recording from each participant on a separate track, and then edit, add effects, and refine each track one-by-one.

Step 6:
Export your final product and upload it to FreshBrain!

Step 7
(optional): Make a video that reveals the fact that the recordings for the composition didn't happen in the same place.