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Julien Claassen wrote:

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> Hi!

>   I rather thought it would be like Frank Pirrone said. But one other thing to

> make it easier:

>   Why having to choose in the end. Upload all made tracks (if there aren't too

> many), if there are, perhaps distribute them over more than one site. Then

> everyone taking part in the project and wishing to mix something does it. Then

> they can distribute their mixes on their own site's or on the main site if

> they don't have one of their own. If they have their own site, send in the

> link to the final piece and there we go.

>   Thoughts?

>   Kindest regards

>            Julien

>

That's fine Julien.  I think I allowed for that and asserted it as a

consequence of the process, calling it a natural fork.

If you like the collection as it stands any point in time, just enjoy

it, fork it, you and your girlfriend enjoy it, fork your girlfriend,

package it and mix it and continue to develop it and post it and sell it

and you're your own boss.
If you want a higher quality piece at any point when you're ready to

take the ball and go home, just ask folks who contributed the tracks you

like, or as you suggest all tracks, to post them in the high quality

format if necessary, or leave them as lossy-compressed as originally

uploaded.
What I attempted to inject into the process was what actually happens in

real bands.  There are workups, takes, explorations, evolution -

sometimes punctuated and sometimes cataclysmic, and at some point either

a small voice from the group or a spontaneous consensus will arise

saying, "That's IT!!!"
Here, it there is to be an endpoint, and indeed the piece can go on

beyond that as anyone interested has its component tracks, and if the -

let's say - 10 tracks are simply bitching, the tune will deserve to be

rendered in full fidelity and properly mixed and mastered.  Then, if it

is worthy, and ask me how surprised I'd be if it was, who knows what

good things it might do.
Maybe I should have named all this for what it really is to make at

least what's swirling around in my head clear to everyone - and, no not

that SecondBand (though I wasn't kidding about that being a kick-ass

idea) or that MusicMash (again, not kidding - hosting/posting the pieces

of CC music for folks to mash up, contribute to, package, share with

friends, flag for listening, or even profit from is another kick-ass

concept - I mean it would be like YouTube where the atomic elements of

the videos were available for anyone to mash, alter, grow, whatever),

but rather a:
Musical Wiki
Uhhh, I guess that would be a Muki (mucky, hmmm...) or a Wikic...
Seriously, this is all just like a Wiki for music.  Someone posts a

topic or a skeleton of an explication of a topic, another "expert" comes

along and adds something or makes edits, the page grows - sometimes in

ways never envisioned by the originator, until a point of at least

homeostasis is reached.  This would be where the growth phase naturally

ends and either that's it or minor ebbs and flows continue in a dynamic

balance.
Musical Wiki.
Frank - sorry for verbosity, my playing is more spare and tasteful,

unless I'm uhhh...