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On Friday 07 December 2007 17:14:12 Folderol wrote:

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> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:30:47 -0800

>

> Ken Restivo  wrote:

> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:12:06PM +0000, Folderol wrote:

> > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:42:35 -0800

> > >

> > > Ken Restivo  wrote:

> > > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:33:56AM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> > > > > david wrote:

> > > > > > Like right now:

> > > > > >

> > > > > > "Sorry, this GeoCities site is currently unavailable.

> > > > >

> > > > > I've mirrored it here:

> > > > >

> > > > >     http://www.mega-nerd.com/tmp/p88warmpadTest.mp3

> > > > >

> > > > > I'll keep it up for at least a week.

> > > >

> > > > Wow, that resonant note that seems to emerge out of the high notes,

> > > > is really sweet.

> > > >

> > > > -ken

> > >

> > > Well all these samples and trial bits has sparked an idea.

> > >

> > > Demo is now about a minute long :)

> > >

> > > http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Demo.mp3

> > > http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Demo.ogg

> > >

> > > I don't yet know where I'll go with it, or what I'll call it, but I

> > > think it has promise.

> >

> > Beautiful!

>

> Thank you :)

>

> > I am hearing some kind of a kicking breakbeat behind that! Is it played

> > to a click track? If so, what's the tempo?

>

> Tempo is 120bpm. Time sig. is 4/4 and each phrase spreads across 4 bars.

>

> > If you wouldn't mind me desecrating it in that way, then I'd love it if

> > you could license it BY-SA and post it to the Linux Audio Collaboration

> > project site.

> >

> > http://lau-cb.peterlutek.com/readme.html

> >

> > -ken

>

> All my work is BY-SA. Sometimes I add NC to stuff I especially want to

> protect, but not to a part finished clip like this.

>

> So far I've extended it to 2 minutes, but haven't put that version up

> yet as I not quite happy with one of the later progressions.

Something to consider:
In "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" Eric Raymond puts forward the notion

of "Release Early, Release Often"
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01...
Now, I see a lot of artists seemingly afraid of this and even advice not to

let the world see things before they are polished.
I wonder if that advice might have been OK for the "all rights reserved" way

of doing things but that we may gain from a release early, release often way

of working in the world of art if we are working with Free licenses.
I know it can be intimidating to let people see draft quality work, but aren't

artists supposed to be risk takers? (I know because I put out daily progress

when I do NaNoWriMo and if anything is likely to be of sub par quality, that

is right there in the running I can tell you.
Could it not be that your rough work might inspire someone to make a better

finished work than you ever could with a particular piece where your finished

piece would not provide similar inspiratoin?
(Ouch - I lost a good thought while I was writing down that last point... I

hate it when that happens. The brain gets two thoughts at once but by the

time you finish recording the first, the second has managed to evaporate...)
>

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> I'm happy for anyone to develop on top of this, but am reluctant to put

> it up on the collaboration site, for fear of diluting the site - there

> already seem to be several 'starts' that don't seem to have much being

> added to them :(

I have been thinking about this as well. Along the same lines interestingly

enough.
I seem to remember somewhere reading about some fail early, fail often

strategy and I think that might be relevant here.
Might it be that putting up a lot of possibilities and hoping for a one in ten

or one in a undreg success rate might prove more productive than trying to

make something of every thing someone puts up? I welcome thoughts along both

of these lines.
all the best,
drew
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